Soundings in the Theology of Psalms: Perspectives and Methods in Contemporary Scholarship (Biblia.com)

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The many introductions to the psalms available to readers tend to focus on various types and forms of psalms but overlook different theological approaches to the Psalter. This volume brings together leading psalms scholars from Catholic and Protestant traditions and takes into account recent scholarship on the shape and shaping of the Psalter and on the rhetorical interpretation of the Psalms.

even the natural world. In fact, that which follows Psalm 1 helps to define what meditation is. Meditation on the law of God means doing the Psalms. Put differently, the essence of meditation on the law is prayer: speech to God and about God’s justice. Framed this way, the entire Psalter becomes an extended meditation on the law, or the law of God in prayer and song. In light of Psalm 1, the Psalter presents a thoroughgoing ethic of prayer. The careful reader of the Psalms realizes that prayer is

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