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Psalms 1–72: A Commentary in the Wesleyan Tradition is unavailable, but you can change that!

Perhaps no other book of the Old Testament is more beloved, more widely used, and more often interpreted than Psalms. Psalms 1–72 is the first of two volumes on this treasured collection of hymns, praises, and prayers. With scholarly precision, David Thompson brings to the forefront the meaning of each psalm, describing its background and original function in the life of God’s people. He then...

Psalms 1 and 2 comprise an introduction to the book of Psalms as a whole. Several features of the text point to this. First a lack of SSs sets them apart from the following poems. With the exception of Pss 10; 33; 43; and 71, all of the psalms in Books I through III carry SSs. Also several vocabulary links tie these two psalms together: ʾašrê/happy (1:1; 2:12), derek/way (1:1, 6; 2:12), ʿābad/perish (1:6; 2:12), and hāgāh/meditate, plot
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