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The Psalms as Christian Praise: A Historical Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

Following in the style of their companion volumes, The Psalms as Christian Worship and The Psalms as Christian Lament, Bruce Waltke and James Houston now explore the depths of Christian praise. Each volume uniquely blends verse-by-verse commentary with a history of Psalms interpretation in the church from the time of the apostles to the present. Since praise is the essence of the book of Psalms,...

God explains his personal name YHWH (Exod. 3:15) by his sentence name: “I AM WHO I AM” or “I WILL BE WHO I WILL BE” (Exod. 3:13–14). Presumably, then, his name is descriptive (“He is”) or anticipatory (“He will be”). Janet Soskice has pointed out the Septuagint translated the sentence name by “I am the Being,” understanding “the metaphysical ultimacy of the Tetragrammaton of God as ‘Being Itself.’ ”2 Her interpretation partially supports the traditional meaning “I AM WHO I AM.” Thus his name speaks
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