Archive for the ‘psalms’ Category
A shelter in the time of storm
Posted by: Ros on: September 1, 2009
I have really been enjoying this series of meditations on Psalm 27 from Paul Tripp recently. There are 52 meditations on a psalm with just 14 verses, so it’s slow and meditative without any sense of needing to rush on through. The meditations don’t go through the psalm in order, though sometimes there will be [...]
Alter-ed Psalms
Posted by: Ros on: June 7, 2009
- In: poetry | psalms | radio 4 | robert alter
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This afternoon’s Poetry Please was given over to the book of Psalms. Some were read in the King James version, and others in Robert Alter’s recent translation. These latter were particularly fabulous. There was an interesting selection of psalms, beginning with the familiarity of the King James version of Psalm 23, the bookends of 1 [...]
Solum Evangelium
Posted by: Ros on: May 1, 2009
- In: podcasts | psalms
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Mike Bird is starting a ‘spasmodic’ series of podcasts. He’s kicked off the series with a discussion on ‘Preaching, Teaching and Singing the Psalms’* featuring Dr Jamie Grant and Revd Angus Macrae which you can download here. Looks like it will be fantastic.** * I would like to reassure everyone that Mike does not actually [...]
Psalm 80
Posted by: Ros on: October 26, 2007
- In: hebrew | psalms
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I’m writing a paper on the metaphor of people as plants in the psalter at the moment. The paper has to include detailed exegetical work on one psalm, for which I’ve chosen Psalm 80. I’ve just attempted a translation which I’ll be working with and I include it here in case it’s useful to anyone [...]
Form criticism, genre and the psalms
Posted by: Ros on: October 15, 2007
- In: poetry | psalms | theology
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Last week in my Psalms class we reached the inevitable lecture on form criticism. Way too much ink has been spilt over the last century in categorising the psalms into different forms, or Gattungen if you’re (a) German or (b) pretentious. Clearly, form or genre is an important factor in interpretation. You read a letter [...]
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