He will save you from the deadly pestilence : the many lives of Psalm 91 /
"Jews and Christians alike have made Psalm 91 one of the most commonly used and cited parts of the Bible. The psalm has shaped theories of politics and government, not to mention influencing medicine and mysticism. In different ages, the psalm has borne many different names: the Song of Evil Sp...
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New York, NY, United States of America :
Oxford University Press,
[2023]
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Table of Contents:
- Under the shadow of the almighty : discovering Psalm 91
- A thousand shall fall at thy side : how a plague prayer became a song against evil spirits
- Lest you dash your foot against a stone : finding Christ in the Psalm
- The terror by night : a world full of demons and enchanters
- Tread upon the lion and the adder : the Psalm as a manifesto of Christendom
- My refuge and my fortress : the Psalm divides Christendom
- Neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling : the plague Psalm, once more?
- There shall no evil befall thee? Modernity and reaction
- But it shall not come nigh thee : demons and plagues persist
- Under his wings shalt thou trust : global South readings of Psalm 91
- To keep thee in all thy ways : how can we pray Psalm 91?