List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations Contributors 1 Multiple Perspectives on Violence and the Book of Psalms: an Introduction to the Volume Lodewyk Sutton and Gideon R. Kotzé 2 Human on Human Violence in the Psalter: a Feminist Reading of Psalms 55, 109, and 139 Nancy L. deClaissé-Walford 3 "The God Who Equipped Me" (Ps 18:32): an Analysis of the Entanglement of Human and Divine Violence in Psalm 18 Magdalena Lass 4 "Break the Arm of the Wicked One" (Psalm 10:15): Power and Violence in Psalm 9-10 Alexandra Grund-Wittenberg 5 Razor Sharp Tongues: the Violent Mouths of the Enemies in Psalms Christine Brown Jones 6 False Witness as Violence according to Psalm 27:12 and Psalm 35:11 Hendrik L. Bosman 7 The Inherent Connection between Violent Speech and States of Depression in Psalm 55 W. Dennis Tucker, Jr. 8 Corrupting Retributive Violence in Psalm 83: Israel's Moral Injury Prison Denise Dombkowski Hopkins 9 A World Gone Wrong: Structural Violence in Psalms 9-14 David G. Firth 10 Enclosing Violence: a Bodily Spatial Reading of Psalm 140 Lodewyk Sutton 11 Framing Violence in the Prayers to YHWH: Psalm 109 Godwin Mushayabasa 12 Divine Violence and Nature in Psalm 29 and the Nigde Stela Gideon R. Kotzé 13 Psalm 137:7-9 in Early Translations and Commentaries Herculaas F.

van Rooy 14 Women Heralds of Divine Victory: Reading Violence in Psalm 68 in Light of an Anabaptist Notion of Power David Davage 15 Violence, Justice, Advocacy, and Intercession in the Psalms John Goldingay 16 The (In)adequacy of Lament as a Response to Violence Jamie A. Grant 17 Multiple Perspectives on Violence and the Book of Psalms: Concluding Remarks Lodewyk Sutton and Gideon R. Kotzé Index of Authors Index of Ancient Texts Index of Topics.