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The Psalter Reclaimed: Praying and Praising with the Psalms is unavailable, but you can change that!

One of the most respected Old Testament scholars of our time introduces us to the history of scholarship on the Psalter and provides hermeneutical guidelines for interpreting the book— making accessible to us the transforming messages of the Psalms.

marching as to war” becomes “Onward Christian pilgrims, Christ will be our light”! They comment: We were also concerned that the book should use positive and appropriate images, and decided that militarism and triumphalism were, therefore, not appropriate. We recognise that military imagery is used in the Bible, but history, including current events, shows only too clearly the misuse to which those images are open. All too often in the Christian and other religions, texts advocating spiritual warfare