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Psalms as Torah: Reading Biblical Song Ethically is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Psalms are the most-read part of the Old Testament, but their importance for ethics has often been overlooked. However, the Psalms offer some of the most potent ethical instruction in the Bible. In this volume, renowned Old Testament scholar Gordon Wenham examines the source of the Psalms’ power, reflects on their main ethical themes, and shows how they function as prayers that change us....

the psalms but also was responsible for the whole collection. “David wrote the book of Psalms including in it the work of the elders, namely, Adam, Melchizedek, Abraham, Moses, Heman, Yeduthun, Asaph, and the three sons of Korah” (Baba Batra 14b). In other words, David collected the psalms written by these ten elders as well as his own compositions. “According to this view therefore, there were no psalms composed after the time of David. All of the psalms were written either by the ten elders, or
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