In this volume growing out of the Baylor Symposium on the Book of Psalms (May 18-20, 2006), some of the leading figures and emerging names in Psalms scholarship offer a collection of essays modeling the diversity of scholarly methodological approaches that characterize the reading of the Book of Psalms at the beginning of the Twenty-First Century. "Readers are treated to a rich reflection of contemporary psalms stduies" Journal for the Stuyd of the Old Testament, June 2009