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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 bright light of the law, which verses 1–6 have compared to the brilliance of the sun, penetrates deep into the human soul, making it aware of its shortcomings. The same realism and humility is found in many other psalms. O Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my pleas for mercy! If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? (Ps. 130:2–3) Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you? Search me, O God,
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