The Psalter Reclaimed: Praying and Praising with the Psalms

by Gordon Wenham

Publisher:

Crossway

, 2013

One of the most respected Old Testament scholars of our time introduces us to the history of scholarship on the Psalter and provides hermeneutical guidelines for interpreting the book— making accessible to us the transforming messages of the Psalms.

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Top Highlights

“In singing the psalms, one is actively committing oneself to following the God-approved life. This is what we are doing singing the psalms.” (source)

“To sum up, singing or praying the psalms is a performative, typically a commissive, act: saying these solemn words to God alters one’s relationship in a way that mere listening does not.” (source)

“the main point of the Psalms: they are designed to be prayed.” (source)

“For [religious] readers the ideally read work is the memorized work, and the ideal mode of rereading is by memorial recall.’ As a reader memorizes a text, he becomes textualized; that is, he embodies the work he has committed to memory. ‘Ezekiel’s eating of the prophetic scroll . . . is a representation of the kind of incorporation and internalization involved in religious reading: the work is ingested, used for nourishment, incorporated: it becomes the basis for rumination and for action.’” (source)

“In the Middle Ages the Psalter was the only part of the Bible a layman was likely to own.” (source)

Product Details

• Title : The Psalter Reclaimed: Praying and Praising with the Psalms
• Author: Wenham, Gordon
• Publisher: Crossway
• Publication Date: 2013
• ISBN: 9781433533990