Studies in the Psalms

by Samuel Rolles Driver

Publisher:

Hodder and Stoughton

, 1915

Overview

Studies in the Psalms is comprised of various studies of the theologian S. R. Driver. Sermons given at Christ Church Cathedral, as well as some published articles on the Psalms, are included in this volume. Together, they combine to give a practical picture of how to study and interpret this Old Testament book.

Contents

Top Highlights

“The Psalm deals with a difficulty which sometimes pressed heavily upon the pious person under the Old Dispensation, who knew only of this world as the scene of God’s dealings with men, and missed the clear evidence of God’s justice which they desired to see in the reward of the righteous and the punishment of the wicked. The difficulty was this: Why should good men suffer, and bad men prosper?” (Page 288)

“and the Messianic Psalms contain, not predictions, but ideals” (Page 21)

“He is both mindful of him, and visits him: he is not lost to His omniscience; and His ‘visitation’—that is, His constant and continuous providential regard—sustains his life, supplies his needs, and ministers to his happiness.” (Page 237)

“Its central thought is the world-wide dominion of the King of Zion” (Page 51)

“The words cannot, as from Hebrews 1:8 onwards has often been supposed, be an affirmation of the divinity of the Messiah, for the simple reason that the king whom the psalmist celebrates, though he is invested with ideal attributes, is not the Messiah—least of all the Christian Messiah, for he marries a queen and has children, who are spoken of in such terms that it would outrage all reasonable exegesis to understand them in any but a literal sense.” (Page 82)

Product Details

• Title: Studies in the Psalms
• Author: Samuel Rolles Driver
• Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton
• Print Publication Date: 1915
• Logos Release Date: 2012
• Pages: 332
• Era: era:modern
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Bible. O.T. Psalms › Commentaries; Church of England › Sermons; Bible. O.T. Psalms › Sermons; Sermons, English
• Resource ID: LLS:PSDRIVER
• Resource Type: Bible Commentary
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T05:16:34Z

About Samuel Rolles Driver

From JewishEncyclopedia.com

Samuel Rolles Driver

English Christian Hebraist; born at Southampton Oct. 2, 1846; regius professor of Hebrew (in succession to Pusey), and canon of Christ Church, Oxford, since 1883; member of the Old Testament Revision Company, 1876-84.

Together with T. K. Cheyne and Robertson Smith, Driver has been one of the foremost champions of Biblical criticism in England. Driver approached it from its linguistic side ("Jour. of Phil." 1882, pp. 201-236). His first contribution, "A Treatise on the Use of the Tenses in Hebrew" (Oxford, 1874; 3d ed., 1892), has remained the most complete presentation of the subject...In matters of criticism Driver has always taken a conservative view, showing much moderation and sympathy with the orthodox position.

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Driver has edited two small rabbinical works: a commentary on Jeremiah and Ezekiel by Moses ben Sheshet, London, 1871, and one on Proverbs, attributed to Abraham ibn Ezra, Oxford, 1880. He has also been a collaborator on the second edition of Smith's "Bible Dictionary," on Hasting's "Dictionary of the Bible," and on Cheyne and Black's "Encyclopædia Biblica," and is coeditor, with Professors Brown and Briggs, of the Clarendon press edition of Gesenius.

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