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Psalms - sämz or Psaltersôlˈtər, book of the Bible, a collection of 150 hymnic pieces. Since the last centuries b.c., this book has been the chief hymnal of Jews, and subsequently, of Christians. The hymns are of varying date and authorship, but many are ascribed to David, and some to Asaph1,Solomon, Moses, and the sons of Korah. Many scholars believe that some of


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    The Psalms: A Commentary » Read Now

    by Artur Weiser. 841 pgs.

    This critically acclaimed series provides fresh and authoritative treatments of important aspects of Old Testament study through commentaries and general surveys. The authors are scholars of international standing.
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    The Psalms and Their Meaning for Today (1952) » Read Now

    by Samuel Terrien. 267 pgs.

    ...inspiration I have finished the Book of Psalms turned into popular verse." The...New Testament generally. In the book of Psalms itself many poems are not...
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    The Burden of Prophecy: Poetic Utterance in the Prophets of the Old Testament (Chap. 5 "Sign, Song, and Prayer in the Dynamic Internality of Psalms") » Read Now

    by Albert Cook. 166 pgs.

    Albert Cook examines the fusion of poetic with scriptural thinking in the prophets and wisdom writers of the Old Testament, focusing on the details of their thematic concentrations and on the posture they assume to orient themselves in their prophecies. Most poetry looks toward the past. Keats, Li...
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    The Psalms in Israel's Worship » Read Now

    by Sigmund Mowinckel. 246 pgs.

    ...much throughout the ages as the book of Psalms, the Psalms of David as they are...poetic pieces collected in the book of Psalms? It is quite clear that many psalms...
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    Sixty-One Psalms of David » Read Now

    by David R. Slavitt. 130 pgs.

    For centuries, men and women have turned to the Psalms more frequently than to any other book in the Bible. The reasons are not hard to find. With their passionate lyricism, their wild fluctuations between faith and fear, and their marvelous, incantatory rhythms, the Psalms provide the most extended...
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    The Enigma of the Bay Psalm Book » Read Now

    by Zoltan Haraszti. 148 pgs.

    ...New England Psalm Book. Many of the psalms were considerably rewritten...expositions of the psalms. The translators of the Bay Psalm Book must have examined...from the Bay...
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    The Salisbury Psalter » Read Now

    by Celia Sisam, Kenneth Sisam. 322 pgs.

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    Tradition and Interpretation (Chap. IX "The Psalms and Israelite Worship") » Read Now

    by G. W. Anderson. 470 pgs.

    ...the successor of The People and the Book 1925 , edited by A. S. Peake, Record...volumes, it seeks to give a general account of the present position in the various...
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    Jewish Spirituality: From the Bible through the Middle Ages (Chap. 5 "Topics in the History of the Spirituality of the Psalms") » Read Now

    by Arthur Green. 458 pgs.

    This book is the first of two columes on the spiritual life as manifest in the history of Judaism. This first volume deals with the classic ages of the Jewish tradition: the biblical, the rabbinic, and the medieval.
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    How Firm a Foundation: Martin Bucer's Historical Exegesis of the Psalms, in Church History » Read Now

    by R. Gerald Hobbs. 15 pgs.

    ...Frankfurt autumn book fair the first copies of a new commentary on the Psalms. 1 The in-quarto...commentator of the Psalms left so large...on the study of that book in the...
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    The Psalms in Rhythmic Prose » Read Now

    by James A. S. J. Kleist, Thomas J. S. J. Lynam. 236 pgs.

    ...assistance. This version of the Psalms is offered as a book for meditative reading...150. A Solemn Concert of Praise for God 236 BOOK 1: Psalms 1-40 -2- PSALM 1...doxology...
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    The Art of Biblical Poetry (Chap. V "Forms of Faith in Psalms") » Read Now

    by Robert Alter. 230 pgs.

    ...Truth and Poetry in the Book of Job 85 V Forms of Faith in Psalms 111 VI...valedictory song and the Book of Job, this intensifying tendency...elsewhere, as in some of the...
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    A History of the English Bible as Literature (Chap. Six "The Psalter in Verse and Poetry") » Read Now

    by David Norton. 484 pgs.

    A History of the English Bible as Literature (revised and condensed from the author's acclaimed History of the Bible as Literature CUP, 1993) explores five hundred years of religious and literary ideas. At its heart is the story of how the King James Bible went from being mocked as English writing...
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