Friday, March 11, 2022

Medieval Psalm Resources

 An academic acquaintance recently shared a resource that he's been working on for medieval psalm commentaries online. I hope to incorporate it into this project at some point in the future, but it's been quite busy teaching and researching as of late. I'd also like to fix the formatting as well. In any case, if you are looking for medieval Psalm resources, check out Willem-Jan de Wit's site (no relation):

https://wjdw.nl/2019/05/03/medieval-commentaries-on-psalms-online/

Cheers,

Andy

Monday, May 25, 2015

The Psalm Bibliography Project

After many frustrating hours compiling a list of available Psalm commentaries from different eras in the history of interpretation, I have finally given over to idea of making available the resources I have compiled, as well as asking for the generosity of my potential readers, in mapping Psalm commentaries throughout the past 2,500 years.  This is a huge project, but one which needs to be done.  My own meager bibliography is far from complete, but I have charted some decent groundwork on which others can hopefully help me build.  In this first post of the project, I want to lay out my goals as well as note different elements I could really use some help with.

Description of the Project


This bibliography is an attempt to catalog the major works on the Psalms throughout the history of interpretation.  It will inevitably be an incomplete bibliography, but one has to start somewhere, and this represents a fairly comprehensive start.  I am much indebted to the Ancient Christian Commentary series for listing many of the early Fathers, as well as the ICC commentary by Briggs for Medieval and Early Modern Commentators (even though his dates are not too reliable), and finally the Wittstruck bibliographic volumes for more recent commentaries.  The easiest way to organize the material was alphabetically.  I’ve also created a separate section on Jewish commentators when chronologically appropriate.

I would love for others to join in this project, and so if you’ve noticed I’ve missed any commentaries, do tell me (andywitt5860_at_gmail.com).  The goal is to be exhaustive, and also be able to link to online resources if they can be found.

Areas of Help
  • Where to find the early church fathers in the PG and PL volumes and other catalogs available.  These are not complete as I have them. 
  • My Origen material is somewhat messy.  I’m not entirely sure what is still considered his and what isn’t, so help here would be appreciated.
  • I would love to be able to put links up on anything which is available online.  There is a surprising amount which is available, and help linking to this would be great.
  • I’ve followed the dates of Briggs on many medieval and early reformation period commentaries, but have found some of these dates to be unreliable.  I’ve yet to check everything here, and so help in this would also be appreciated. 
  • Sermons and homilies.  I know that the there are a number of series’ which have translated and reprinted sermons and homilies from church fathers that I’m completely unaware of.  If you have these handy, it would be great to help compile them here as well.