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Psalms Old and New: Exegesis, Intertextuality, and Hermeneutics is unavailable, but you can change that!

Reading the book of Psalms in its original context is the crucial prerequisite for reading its citation and use in later interpretation, including the New Testament writings, argues Ben Witherington III. Here he offers pastors, teachers, and students an accessible commentary to the Psalms, as well as a reasoned consideration of how they were heard and read in early Christianity. By reading...

reveal God’s character and will as mirrored in the human heart, but it always reflects with transparency and clarity the intricacies of the human heart.2 We must never forget this fact as we work through the Psalms and their use in the NT. If we use it and the insights already mentioned above in this study, we will be on the right path to understanding. Furthermore, the Psalms are indeed songs, and as songs they speak to and from the affective side of human nature, showing forth the whole gamut of
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