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This is an excellent, scholarly inquiry into Bonhoeffer's Christ-centred interpretation of the Hebrew Psalms, which illuminates well the theological and spiritual resources that fed his courageous resistance to Nazism. Especially helpful is the way it locates Bonhoeffer against the wider background of Christian treatment of the psalms over the centuries as well as the crisis he faced in his own lifetime - and the questions which still face us today in the relations of Christianity and Judaism. -- Keith Clements

This is an excellent, scholarly inquiry into Bonhoeffer's Christ-centred interpretation of the Hebrew Psalms, which illuminates well the theological and spiritual resources that fed his courageous resistance to Nazism. Especially helpful is the way it locates Bonhoeffer against the wider background of Christian treatment of the psalms over the centuries as well as the crisis he faced in his own lifetime - and the questions which still face us today in the relations of Christianity and Judaism. -- Keith Clements The figure of Dietrich Bonhoeffer has received much scholarly attention over recent years, ranging from his intellectual contributions to Protestant theology to his sacrificial resistance against Hitler. Less, however, has been done on Bonhoeffer's biblical exegesis, and much less on his place in the history of biblical interpretation. Dr. Pribbenow admirably helps to fill this gap. Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Christological Interpretation of the Psalms offers us a view of Bonhoeffer as a theologian thoroughly conversant with the assumptions and methods of modern exegesis, yet as one who cares deeply about the Christian use of the Scriptures. By attending to Bonhoeffer's personal context and development against the backdrop of the wider history of interpretation, Pribbenow reveals Bonhoeffer's own unique solution to the hermeneutical challenges of reading and praying the Psalter. As such, Bonhoeffer gives us a viable approach to the Psalms today-not merely as a record of ancient religious piety or as a collection of devotional material, but as the very prayerbook of Christ. -- Erik H. Herrmann, Concordia Seminary

This is an excellent, scholarly inquiry into Bonhoeffer's Christ-centred interpretation of the Hebrew Psalms, which illuminates well the theological and spiritual resources that fed his courageous resistance to Nazism. Especially helpful is the way it locates Bonhoeffer against the wider background of Christian treatment of the psalms over the centuries as well as the crisis he faced in his own lifetime - and the questions which still face us today in the relations of Christianity and Judaism.--Keith Clements

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Brad A. Pribbenow is professor of Old Testament and dean at Lutheran Brethren Seminary.

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