'This is a thought-provoking, well-researched work. I am excited about it and about the promise it carries for future research.' Ehud Ben Zvi, University of Alberta
Part I. Historical Summaries in the Hebrew Bible: 1. Historical Summary as Commemoration: Schema, Function, Performance; 2. Historical Psalms as Acts of Commemoration; 3. Historical Summaries as Commemoration in Chronicles; 4. Praying History in the Wilderness: Neh 9:5b–37; Part II. Historical Summaries in the Dead Sea Scrolls: The Historical Summary in the Qumran Psalms Scrolls; Words of the Luminaries (4Q504–506): History as Liturgy.