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John Goldingay, Psalms throughout the Centuries, Vol. 1. By Susan Gillingham., The Journal of Theological Studies, Volume 64, Issue 2, October 2013, Pages 603–604, https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/flt178
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This volume is the paperback edition of a hardback original published in 2008 (not reviewed in JTS), one in the growing Blackwell Bible Commentaries series which look at interaction with individual biblical books ‘through the centuries’. About a dozen have been published so far, with another twenty or so projected. They thus join the burgeoning field of the study of ‘reception history’, an approach to the Bible which (like other approaches) has been adapted to biblical scholarship from literary studies. One of its assumptions is that a text’s potential significance is bound not to get realized in any one cultural context, so that looking at the way it has been ‘received’ in other contexts will help us gain more access to its significance. Like all study of reception history the volume thus does raise the question whether texts have an actual meaning of their own and how study of their reception relates to exegesis, though that question is not its own concern.
