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The Flow of the Psalms: Discovering Their Structure and Theology is unavailable, but you can change that!

For centuries the book of Psalms has been read as a random collection of poems with no intentional arrangement. But is this a correct understanding? O. Palmer Robertson equips us to see a clear redemptive-historical progression that develops across the five books of Psalms. With the aid of charts in full color, he demonstrates how an intentional structure is indicated by elements such as the...

In a similar way, the final editor (or editors) of the Psalter would have been quite deliberate in the arrangement of the assembled treasury of psalms. Very likely he (or they) would have accepted some arrangements that traditional usage had already established. But then he/they would have been quite deliberate in the placement of every psalm and grouping of psalms. In considering the present arrangement of the Psalter, we see that a large grouping of psalms known to be David’s has been positioned
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