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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....

Hebrew Psalter (1985).20 Wilson noted various features in the Psalter that suggested that the work had not grown haphazardly over the centuries, but rather that it had been carefully edited into a coherent anthology. There are, of course, features suggesting editorial activity that have long been recognized. The Psalter is divided into five books, each ending with a blessing. For example, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting! Amen and Amen” (Ps. 41:13), or “Blessed
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