One hundred and fifty psalms
Difficulty in dating individual psalms
Hymns of praise or laments
Often laments can turn into songs of praise
Divided into five books
Psalm 22: did the early Christians find this psalm fit the actual details of Jesus' death or was the story shaped by the details of the psalm.
Psalm 58: The psalm is not a "fight song" after which the participants go out and wreak vengeance themselves... (except in modern-day Israel when dealing with the Palestinians) Why can't we have the words of our faith in our hearts which we take into the world instead of leaving the words in holy books or in holy places? I look at what our nation and other nations have done - nations that consider themselves to be Christian or Jewish. Let's complain to God - give God all our grievances and then leave it at that - the vengeance, the punishment is God's; not ours.
Use of the psalms by early Christians... the early church.
New Year. Final Post.
10 years ago
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