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Encountering the Book of Psalms: A Literary and Theological Introduction (Second Edition) is unavailable, but you can change that!

Though the Psalms are perhaps the most familiar portion of the Hebrew Bible, they are also among the most difficult to interpret. In this new, thoroughly updated edition of a successful textbook, a respected evangelical Old Testament scholar offers a guide to the book of Psalms that is informed by current scholarship and written at an accessible level. Designed for the undergraduate classroom, it...

scholars use the terms “strophe” and “stanza” synonymously,9 while others make a distinction between them, the stanza being a larger unit made up of one or more strophes.10 My own inclination is to use the term “strophe” as the larger unit above that of the distich or tristich and not use the term “stanza” at all, since the strophic unit is large enough that we generally need not speak about a still larger unit. A strophe is a logical unit determined by either the subject matter or the structure
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