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How to Read the Psalms
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How to Read the Psalms Paperback - 1988

by Longman, Tremper, III

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  • Title How to Read the Psalms
  • Author Longman, Tremper, III
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Edition, 5th
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 166
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher InterVarsity Press, Westmont, Illinois, U.S.A.
  • Date 1988-07-20
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 4023451-6
  • ISBN 9780877849414 / 0877849412
  • Weight 0.44 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.24 x 5.48 x 0.49 in (20.93 x 13.92 x 1.24 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
    • Theometrics: Evangelical
    • Topical: Home School
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 88008835
  • Dewey Decimal Code 223.206

From the publisher

The Psalms possess an enduring fascination for us. For frankness, directness, intensity and intimacy, they are unrivaled in all of Scripture. Somehow the psalmists seem to have anticipated all our awe, desires and frustrations. No wonder Christians have used the Psalms in worship from the earliest times to the present.

Yet the Psalms cause us difficulties when we look at them closely. Their poetry is unfamiliar in form. Many images they use are foreign to us today. And the psalmists sometimes express thoughts that seem unworthy of Scripture.

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 and their relationship to the rest of the Old Testament. Then he looks at how Christians can appropriate their message and insights today. Turning to the art of Old Testament poetry, he explains the use of parallelism and imagery.

Step-by-step suggestions for interpretating the psalms on our own are followed by exercises for further study and reflection. Also included is a helpful guide to commentaries on the Psalms.

About the author

Tremper Longman III (PhD, Yale University) is Robert H. Gundry Professor of Biblical Studies at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California. He is also visiting professor of Old Testament at Seattle School of Theology and Psychology and adjunct of Old Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary. He lectures regularly at Regent College in Vancouver and the Canadian Theological Seminary in Calgary. Longman is the author or coauthor of over twenty books, including How to Read Genesis, How to Read the Psalms, How to Read Proverbs, Literary Approaches to Biblical Interpretation, Old Testament Essentials and coeditor of A Complete Literary Guide to the Bible. He and Dan Allender have coauthored Bold Love, Cry of the Soul, Intimate Allies, The Intimate Mystery and the Intimate Marriage Bible studies.

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