This course gives you an overview of important interpretive elements of the Psalms. Dr. Futato explains the primary and secondary messages of the Psalms, how the 150 Psalms are organized, and how the different genres of the Psalms point to Christ.
“Hyperbole is exaggerating for the purpose of making your point with emphasis, with rhetorical power.” (source)
“Metonymy is the change of one noun for another with which is it associated.” (source)
“The blessed life is a life that amounts to something. It’s a life that has purpose, a life that has meaning, a life that has significance. It’s a life that is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields fruit in season. It’s doing what it was designed to do. And that is what the blessed life is: It is a life of meaning, of purpose, of significance.” (source)
“Hyperbole is when more is said than is literally meant.” (source)
“Books 4 and 5 are given to answer the question raised in Psa 89:49, ‘Where, O Lord, is your former great love, which in your faithfulness you swore to David?’” (source)