Has any psalm occasioned the spilling of more ink than Psalm 23? The psalm may be the most-beloved, most-sung, most-prayed, and most-studied poem in the Psalter. A review of the secondary literature for this psalm alone could fill an entire volume.1 Miller observes that “the very familiarity of the psalm presents a challenge to bring it alive so that even, if not especially, those who know it well may not pass it by too quickly.”2 The majority of scholars have approached
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