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Word Biblical Commentary, Volume 19: Psalms 1–50 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Volume 19 in the acclaimed Word Biblical Commentary series. The Word Biblical Commentary delivers the best in biblical scholarship, from the leading scholars of our day who share a commitment to Scripture as divine revelation. This series emphasizes a thorough analysis of textual, linguistic, structural, and theological evidence. The result is judicious and balanced insight into the meanings of...

readily by all living in a world where the landscape was dotted with sheep and shepherds. The profundity emerges in the beauty of the poetry, which transforms simple metaphor into profoundly spiritual expression. And the appeal of the psalm has continued through subsequent generations, partly because the beauty of the poetry has survived the process of translation, and partly because (until very recently) the pastoral metaphor has retained its significance and accessibility to the majority of human
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