Mitchell Dahood Psalms III 101-150 paperback sku-8150763

Mitchell Dahood's Psalms III (101-150), SKU sku-8150763, is a paperback in Religion & Religious Studies Books. It is Volume 17A of The Anchor Bible, a book-by-book Bible translation with introductions and notes. Dahood, S.J., a professor of Ugaritic Language and Literature at The Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome, translated and edited this volume.

His translation draws heavily on contemporary linguistic evidence, especially the relationship between the Psalms and Ugaritic texts found at Ras-Shamra and other inscriptions discovered along the Phoenician coast. It attempts to convey the Hebrew text's meaning, poetic forms and rhythms, including its terse, three-beat lines and parallelism.

Dahood also proposes readings of passages he considers previously mistranslated. Alongside the introduction, translation and notes, the volume includes a Grammar of the Psalter drawing on his work with Ugaritic.