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The Psalms: A Historical and Spiritual Commentary with an Introduction and Translation is unavailable, but you can change that!

Eaton devotes the first fifty-eight pages to surveying the historical areas surrounding the Psalms, delving into such topics as the Psalms’ authors, music, poetry, and divine names and titles, including a look at how the book of Psalms has been viewed through the ages. In the commentary, Eaton follows a simple pattern for each psalm: he offers his own translation; provides introductory remarks on...

1b Antiquity and integrity of the psalms Sometimes this neglect has been due to misapprehension about the date and composition of the Psalms. Working from theories of how Israelite religion developed from a ‘many-gods’ to a ‘one-god’ outlook, some scholars have dated the Psalms very late in Old Testament history. They have explained the presence of obviously ancient passages as due to the method of the late authors who, supposedly, drew on pieces of old psalms and built them into their new compositions.
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