An internationally-renowned Old Testament scholar explores the riches of the Psalms, expounding the ways they shape those who read them.He is not reading the text to himself, for several times he mentions doing it at night (Pss. 1:2; 63:6; 77:6), which would have been difficult before the invention of electric light. ... Psalm 1 is not an acrostic, but it too uses this device of making its first word begin with E¾aleph (E¾aAirAo) and its last word with taw ... 10 Thus, the book of Lamentations contains four acrostic poems bewailing the fall of Jerusalem.
Title | : | Psalms as Torah |
Author | : | Gordon J. Wenham |
Publisher | : | Baker Books - 2012-02-01 |
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