Smith DTh Thesis (final).pdf - South African Theological Seminary

2.6 Recent literary studies .............................................................. 312.6.1 Studies on the entire Psalter ...................................... 312.6.2 Studies on collections of psalms ................................ 472.7 Conclusion ............................................................................... 633. Methodology .................................................................................... 663.1 Introduction .............................................................................. 663.2 Resources ................................................................................ 673.3 Presuppositions ....................................................................... 683.4 Exegesis of individual psalms .................................................. 693.4.1 Textual criticism ......................................................... 703.4.2 Historical reconstruction ............................................ 713.4.3 Lexical analysis .......................................................... 733.4.4 Grammatical analysis ................................................ 753.4.5 Form criticism ............................................................ 753.4.6 Structural analysis ..................................................... 763.4.7 Rhetoric analysis ....................................................... 773.4.8 Theological analysis .................................................. 783.5 Analysis of links between adjacent psalms .............................. 793.5.1 Conduct an exhaustive analysis of sharedterminology ................................................................ 80