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- Editors David Firth and Philip Johnston help academic readers understand current approaches and issues in study of the Psalms, while also giving them a deeper appreciation for these poetic texts.
- About the Author: Philip S. Johnston is Old Testament tutor and director of studies at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford.
- 345 Pages
- Religion + Beliefs, Biblical Criticism & Interpretation
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Editors David Firth and Philip Johnston help academic readers understand current approaches and issues in study of the Psalms, while also giving them a deeper appreciation for these poetic texts.Book Synopsis
Editors David Firth and Philip Johnston help academic readers understand current approaches and issues in study of the Psalms, while also giving them a deeper appreciation for these poetic texts.
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For those who treasure, love and pray the psalms, this book will be a sheer delight, and, if used in the classroom, it will offer up so much for lay people that they will . . . say "Hallelujah!"
For those who treasure, love and pray the psalms, this book will be a sheer delight, and, if used in the classroom, it will offer up so much for lay people that they will . . . say "Hallelujah!"
--Reed Lessing in Concordia Journal, April 2007About the Author
Philip S. Johnston is Old Testament tutor and director of studies at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. He has published studies of Israelite beliefs in the afterlife and is a review editor for Themelios. His other books include Les Psaumes, Shades of Sheol and The Land of Promise (coedited with Peter Walker).
David Firth is Old Testament tutor and B.A. course leader at Cliff College, Derbyshire. He is the author of Responses to Violence in Complaint Psalms of the Individual (forthcoming).
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