Biblical Hebrew Forum

[ianyoung AT plato.arts.usyd.edu.au]

Dear Johannes,

You may be interested in: 

Robert Althann, Studies in Northwest Semitic, Pontifical Biblical Institute,
Rome, 1997 (biblica et orientalia 45)

From memory, he sets out to see how some of Dahood's suggestions have fared in
recent scholarship.

Ian Young
Sydney University

On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 10:42:39 +0100 j.hellberg AT forsfak.been.o.se (Johannes
Hellberg) wrote:

>Dear List-members!
>
>In the introduction to his Commentary on Ps 1-50 (Word Biblical Commentary
>1983), Craigie quotes Albright about Dahood's commentary on the Psalms (AB):
>"Even if only a third of his (Dahood's) new interpretations of the Psalter
>are correct in principle - and I should put the total proportion higher - he
>has contributed more than all other scholars together, over the past two
>thousend years, to the elucidation of the Psalter"
>
>Dahood really introduced new thoughts into the exegesis of the Psalter.
>
>Craigie writes: "In this commentary, wich owes a great deal to the insight
>of Mitchell Dahood, an attempt has been made to evaluate crtitcally Dahood's
>contributions to the study of Psalms 1-50. The critical evaluation is very
>limited, principally because the extent of Dahood's work is so massive that
>a complete book would be required for critical evaluation alone"
>
>Does anyone know about such an evaluation?
>
>Yours
>Johannes