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The Message of the Psalms: A Theological Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

Dr. Brueggemann describes the human cries of anguish and the exultations of praise expressed in the Psalms. Particularly noteworthy is its approach to the Psalms from a counseling and pastoral perspective, providing commentary that walks with the reader in any season of life.

which has attracted widespread and persistent scholarly attention, that these representative psalms are best understood in a single liturgical setting that dominated Israel’s life. Mowinckel proposed that many of the psalms reflect the annual enthronement festival, enacted dramatically in the Jerusalem temple at New Year’s time. In that festival Yahweh, the God of Israel, is dramatically and liturgically reenthroned for the new year, which is the renewal of creation and the guarantee of well-being.
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