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Daily Study Bible
Psalms, Volume 1
For George A. F. Knight, reading the Psalms is a "glorious and exciting experience." Writing in this spirit, he captures the beauty of these timeless hymns of praise and conveys both their original meaning and their application for today. Knight show how these songs of salvation speak as eloquently for today's men and women as they did for the first of God's Chosen People. Carrying forward brilliantly the pattern established by Barclay's New Testament series, the Daily Study Bible has been extended to cover the entire Old Testament as well. Invaluable for individual devotional study, for group discussion, and for classroom use, the Daily Study Bible provides a useful, reliable, and eminently readable way to discover what the Scriptures were saying then and what God is saying today.
352 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1982
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August 7, 2010
An embodiment of the theology of the Old Testament, the psalms were written by the People of God who, as George A. F. Knight points out, "had already discovered the wonders of the goodness of God in his making covenant with them, a covenant of love and loyalty."
To deepen appreciation of the psalms, Knight draws out the meaning of words such as righteous, salvation, gracious, and goodness and shows that they are examples of the covenant language that conveyed special meaning to people who knew they had been saved. He draws vivid pictures of Old Testament places and events-ancient Jerusalem, the walls of Zion, and the crowds clamoring to get through the gates of the city to worship in the Temple courts of Jerusalem, and portrays cruel kinds like Nebuchadnezzar, miserable Israelites displaced in Babylon, and David fleeing from his son, Absalom.
Of particular interest to the modern reader of the psalms is the notion, stressed by Knight, of the unity of creation. He emphasizes that the Old Testament has no words for religion or religious. When the psalmist speaks of "those who fear the Lord," he is expressing the idea, not of being religious, but of recognizing in awe and wonder the mystery of the living God.
The first of two Daily Study Bible volumes on The Psalms covers two of the five books of the psalter. It begins with the First Psalm, a beatitude praising one who delights "in the law of the Lord... In all that he does, he prospers." It concludes with the Seventy-second Psalm, part of the liturgy for the enthronement of a king, picturing the king as "a kind and just man, a man of compassion and of concern for the poor and weak, and for all those who are oppressed and who suffer violence."
For Knight, reading the psalms is "a glorious and exciting experience." Writing in this spirit, he has captured the beauty of these timeless hymns of praise, as he conveys both their original meaning and their application for today.
~From book cover
To deepen appreciation of the psalms, Knight draws out the meaning of words such as righteous, salvation, gracious, and goodness and shows that they are examples of the covenant language that conveyed special meaning to people who knew they had been saved. He draws vivid pictures of Old Testament places and events-ancient Jerusalem, the walls of Zion, and the crowds clamoring to get through the gates of the city to worship in the Temple courts of Jerusalem, and portrays cruel kinds like Nebuchadnezzar, miserable Israelites displaced in Babylon, and David fleeing from his son, Absalom.
Of particular interest to the modern reader of the psalms is the notion, stressed by Knight, of the unity of creation. He emphasizes that the Old Testament has no words for religion or religious. When the psalmist speaks of "those who fear the Lord," he is expressing the idea, not of being religious, but of recognizing in awe and wonder the mystery of the living God.
The first of two Daily Study Bible volumes on The Psalms covers two of the five books of the psalter. It begins with the First Psalm, a beatitude praising one who delights "in the law of the Lord... In all that he does, he prospers." It concludes with the Seventy-second Psalm, part of the liturgy for the enthronement of a king, picturing the king as "a kind and just man, a man of compassion and of concern for the poor and weak, and for all those who are oppressed and who suffer violence."
For Knight, reading the psalms is "a glorious and exciting experience." Writing in this spirit, he has captured the beauty of these timeless hymns of praise, as he conveys both their original meaning and their application for today.
~From book cover
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