Reflecting the combined insights and strengths of three superior biblical scholars, this book is the most complete and detailed one-volume commentary available on the Psalms. Nancy deClaisse-Walford, Rolf Jacobson, and Beth LaNeel Tanner offer a succinct introduction to the Psalter, a new translation of all the psalms that takes special account of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and individual entries on each psalm unit. Throughout their commentary they draw on state-of-the-art research on the canonical shape and shaping of the Psalter and give nuanced attention to the poetic nature of the psalms.
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Selections from the Book of Psalms
Taking his point of departure from the newest frontier of research, McCann reads the psalms in the context of their final shape and canonical form.
nouncement that God is about to speak (v. 16a). This final word from God completes the psalm (vv. ... Westermann has broken down his two basic categories of psalms, praise and lament, into individual lament and community lament.
A commentated new translation of the Book of Psalms seeks to preserve and convey its powerful message and musical rhythms while lending insight into the text's obscurities, in a volume by the acclaimed translator of the Five Books of Moses. ...
The Book of Psalms for Worship
Leading biblical scholar and translator Stephen Mitchell translates fifty of the most powerful and popular bible psalms to create poems that recreate the music of the original Hebrew verse.
Jesus died with a psalm on his lips. For millennia, humans have been shaped by the Psalms. And before the Nazis banned him from publishing, German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer published this book on the Psalms.
In a fresh approach to the Book of Psalms, McCann reads them in the context of their final shape and canonical form.
The Book of Psalms for Singing