- Introduction / Eric Peels
- Psalms and prayers in the Book of Chronicles / Pancratius C. Beentjes
- "Our father ... ": an inherited title and its presence (or absence) in the Psalms? / Adrian H.W. Curtis
- The ark and the cherubim in the Psalms / John Day
- The Hodayot's use of the Psalter: text-critical contributions (Book I) / John Elwolde
- Psalm
- 103: design, boundaries, and mergers / Jan Fokkelman
- Are idols hiding in Psalm 139:20? / Jan Holman
- Inside out Psalm
- 55: how Jonah grew out of a Psalmist's conceit / Alastair G. Hunter
- The demarcation of hymns and prayers in the Prophets (2) / Marjo C.A. Korpel
- Psalm
- 69: the petitioner's understanding of himself, his God, and his enemies / Christiane de Vos and Gert Kwakkel
- Argumenta ad deum in the plague prayers of Mursili II and in the Book of Psalms / Paul Sanders
- The discourse of praying: reading Nehemiah I / Eep Talstra
- Sing to the Lord a new song / Roger Tomes
- The prayer of Isaiah and the sundial of Ahaz (2 Kgs 20:11) / Jaap van Dorp
- King and community: joining with David in prayer / Howard N. Wallace
- Prayer and practice in the Psalms / Gordon Wenham.
"Psalms" are to be seen as prayers, it is as testimonies of faith and despair. Applying a multi-dimensional matrix of methods, this work features essays that focus on the interpretation of the "Book of Psalms" and comparable texts in the "Hebrew Bible."