This book offers one of the best available introductions to the Psalms literature of the Bible. Specially designed for general readers, James L. Crenshaw's new book will help beginning students rea…
The aggresive tone of the Psalms that deal with violence is often viewed as incomaptible with the sentiments expressed in the new covenant and in direct opposition to Jesus' command to love one's n…
Tremper Longman gives us the kind of help we need to overcome the distance between the psalmists' world and ours. He explains the various kinds of psalms, the way they were used in Hebrew worship a…
This chapter-by-chapter commentary features new thoughts and illustrations. To the reader of the Psalms, this masterful, comprehensive, deeply devotional volume will be a valued aid and a faithful …
Our Lord has wisely given the Psalms, the songbook of the Bible, for the benefit of the church. But for many people, the Psalms contents are mysterious because they no longer have a place of promin…
Walter Brueggemann's unique gift of joining historical-exegetical insights to penetrating observations about the traumas and joys of contemporary life both personal and social is here forcefully di…
Two years ago at a small adult Sunday School class, the topic for discussion was how God Works in and through people. Near the end of the hour Curtis, a disable African American Vietnam vet who had…
Just as the Book of Psalms provides the words we need for lament (expressing our grief and hurt to God), the Psalter also provides the guidance and language we need for negotiating the time after l…
The main purpose to this volume is to show the enduring vitality of the Praises of Israel. Thus the author has sought to show how the Psalter grew like a living a thing and how from the beginning i…
How well are the psalms understood? The parables seem more accessible, but are they? And as familiar as we are with the texts of the psalms and the parables, how open are we to new perspectives on …