Sunday, February 4, 2024

More on the Psalms

A beginner's guide to the psalms by Mike Mazzalongo begins here and follows with a second lecture; between the two first lectures, Mazzalong discusses the various divisions of the psalms and the types of Hebrew poetry. Mazzalongo has slides and other aids here. His video lectures (about ten on the Psalms) are about 35-40 minutes in length. Mazzalongo claims nine categories of psalms such as wisdom psalms, worship psalms, nature psalms, Word psalms, praise psalms and royal psalms, etc.. (This division into nine types of psalms is a bit artificial; other commentators have slightly different classes.) 

I will briefly describe some of those lectures here. (I recommend listening to them at 1.25 or even 1.5 times the normal speed.)
Other resources on the psalms include The Psalms Project, with the goal of putting all 150 psalms to music.

We return to our study of the Old Testament tomorrow, with a look at Psalm 67.

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