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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...

human beings created to relieve the lesser gods of the backbreaking work assigned them by the higher gods. Through the slaughter of one god, humanity is created to bear the disgusting yoke of divine labor (Arnold and Beyer 2002, 21–31, especially pp. 23–24). The Enuma Elish, another lengthy literary piece from Mesopotamia, takes a similar tack (31–50, especially pp. 40–42). Absolutely nothing of human glory and dignity applauded by the psalmist here finds expression in these cultural options. What
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