A New Psalm

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A New Psalm
A Guide to Psalms as Literature
By Benjamin Segal, (translation and commentary)

A New Psalm is a commentary and guide to reading the Book of Psalms as...
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Product Name:	A New Psalm
Product Sub Title:	A Guide to Psalms as Literature
Author:	Benjamin Segal, (translation and commentary)
Price:	$42.00 (instead of $48.00)
Catalog Number:	9789652296184
ISBN 10:	965229618X
ISBN 13:	9789652296184
Format:	Hardback
Pages:	720
Publish Date:	01/2013
Publisher:	Gefen Publishing House

Description:
A New Psalm is a commentary and guide to reading the Book of Psalms as literature. After an introduction, each psalm is interpreted in light of biblical scholarship, ancient and modern, with an emphasis on the poetic presentation. The commentary elucidates the spiritual quests, insights, and struggles of generations of men and women confronting their world and their place in that world, with no subject, be it faith or nonbelief, good or evil, hope or despair, God or man, the individual or the society, the nation or the nations, left unexplored. Sophisticated poets who knew how to speak to both their peers and the masses, the psalmists used words creatively to allow their readers to search their own hearts. The words are ancient, but the questions are immediate and modern. The Psalms has contributed to the thinking and search of people across the millennia. It is truly poetry of the heart. In this commentary, modern research and insight allow the poems to sing once again. No other commentary brings a combination of classical and modern interpretations to the Book of Psalms, along with a real appreciation for the poetic skills of the poets and an acknowledgment of their own struggles and strivings. Uniquely identifying the literary techniques used by the psalmist, the author opens the psalms to the reader through an integrated appreciation of form and content.