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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,...

The Psalms are part of the hymnbook of the Lord Jesus Christ. As a child, brought up in a Jewish home, he recited and learned the Book of Psalms. But as an adult, he uniquely makes the sevenfold claim “I AM” which is recorded in John’s gospel. His use of “I AM” for himself makes him the object of praise in the Psalms for Christians. So with reference to Christ, Christians read the psalms in two ways. They join him as the son of David in petitioning and praising God, and they petition and
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