Benedict XVI’s Interpretation of the Psalms
Wojciech Węgrzyniak
Pontifical University of John Paul II in Kraków , Polandhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5696-304X
Abstract
This article aims to analyze the way Pope Benedict XVI quotes and interprets biblical psalms. In the introductory section, the author presents statistics and the ways in which Benedict XVI quotes Book of Psalms, and then offers a general, introductory look at psalms and their analysis in papal catechesis. In subsequent sections of the article, the author focuses on the pope’s historical-critical exegesis and linguistic analyses of the psalms, followed by the pope’s Christological, ecclesiological, Mariological, and actualizing reading of the Psalms. In the concluding section, the author discusses the relationship of the psalms to prayer, the pope’s references to the Fathers of the Church and recalls Benedict XVI’s most personal statements on the Psalms.
Keywords:
Benedict XVI, psalms, hermeneutics of faith, historical-critical exegesis, theological exegesisReferences
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Ks. Wojciech Węgrzyniak, doktor nauk biblijnych i archeologii (SBF, Jerozolima 2010), habilitację z nauk teologicznych uzyskał w 2020 roku (UPJPII), adiunkt i kierownik katedry egzegezy Starego Testamentu na Uniwersytecie Papieskim Jana Pawła II w Krakowie. Głównym obszarem zainteresowań naukowych jest Księga Psalmów oraz Księgi prorockie ST. Napisał m.in.: „The Imprecatory Psalms in the Liturgy of the Hours after the Second Vatican Council: Reform, Reception and the Current State of the Debate," Verbum Vitae 40/4 (2022) 1075-1096; Psalm 83. Teksty - egzegeza - konteksty (Studia Biblica Lublinensia XIX; wyd. KUL) Lublin 2019; „Unreasonable Aheism? The Case of נָבָל (Ps 14 and 53),” Liber Annus 69 (2019) 121-133; „Problemy tekstualne, egzegetyczne i translatorskie So 3,18,” Collectanea Theologica 87/ 4 (2017) 91-107.
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