Abstract
In this paper we take up two overlapping aspects of the way in which the toughness of the Psalms can fulfill a constructive function. The first part (chiefly the work of Kathleen Scott Goldingay), published in the previous issue of Theology, looked at the way their poetic nature can have an ethical effect on the person who uses them. This second part (chiefly the work of John Goldingay) considers the significance of using the imprecatory psalms.1
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