How to Read and Understand the Psalms

June 16, 2023

Everything You Need to Know About the Psalms

Read a Sample - Developed Primarily from Decades of Lectures by Bruce K. Waltke

“A milestone achievement, encapsulating a lifetime of study in an accessible form.”–Iain M. DuguidProfessor of Old Testament, Westminster Theological Seminary

Examines the larger historical and scriptural context ofthe Psalms and specific psalms verse-by-verse

"Opens up fresh insights into the structure, meaning, and purpose of the Psalms."–Derek W. H. ThomasSenior Minister, First Presbyterian Church, Columbia, South Carolina

Helpfully organized bythe genre of the Psalm

Comprehensive. Insightful. Accessible.

For pastors, teachers, students, and personal study

“Although I am neither a prophet nor a prophet’s son, I think I can safely predict that How to Read and Understand the Psalms is a book you will return to frequently and treasure permanently.”–Sinclair B. FergusonChancellor’s Professor of Systematic Theology, Reformed Theological Seminary

“The most obvious virtue of How to Read and Understand the Psalms is its scope. An appropriate subtitle for the book might be What You Always Wanted to Know about the Psalms.”–Leland RykenEmeritus Professor of English, Wheaton College

“What better way to encounter the book of Psalms—a book with such a wide range of topics, emotions, and types of psalms...It is at once engaging, insightful, and uplifting. I heartily recommend it.”–David M. Howard Jr.Professor of Old Testament, Bethlehem College & Seminary

Shop Our Best Books on the Psalms

In this influential posthumous masterpiece, Dutch missiologist J. H. Bavinck guides readers in a candid, eloquent, and eye-opening exploration of religion, revelation, and the distinctness of the Christian faith in the context of global religions. Bavinck’s five ‘magnetic points’ (cosmic relationship, religious norm, the riddle of existence, our craving for salvation, and our awareness of a supreme power) are a transformative rubric for bringing Christ to the world, including those identifying as religious “nones.” Now for the first time in hardcover, with a luminary introduction by Daniel Strange, a new generation of Christians, pastors, and theologians can benefit from J. H. Bavinck’s must-read study of the contrast between Christianity and world religions.

Everything You Need to Know About the Psalms

Read a Sample - Developed Primarily from Decades of Lectures by Bruce K. Waltke

“A milestone achievement, encapsulating a lifetime of study in an accessible form.”–Iain M. DuguidProfessor of Old Testament, Westminster Theological Seminary

Examines the larger historical and scriptural context ofthe Psalms and specific psalms verse-by-verse

"Opens up fresh insights into the structure, meaning, and purpose of the Psalms."–Derek W. H. ThomasSenior Minister, First Presbyterian Church, Columbia, South Carolina

Helpfully organized bythe genre of the Psalm

Comprehensive. Insightful. Accessible.

For pastors, teachers, students, and personal study

“Although I am neither a prophet nor a prophet’s son, I think I can safely predict that How to Read and Understand the Psalms is a book you will return to frequently and treasure permanently.”–Sinclair B. FergusonChancellor’s Professor of Systematic Theology, Reformed Theological Seminary

“The most obvious virtue of How to Read and Understand the Psalms is its scope. An appropriate subtitle for the book might be What You Always Wanted to Know about the Psalms.”–Leland RykenEmeritus Professor of English, Wheaton College

“What better way to encounter the book of Psalms—a book with such a wide range of topics, emotions, and types of psalms...It is at once engaging, insightful, and uplifting. I heartily recommend it.”–David M. Howard Jr.Professor of Old Testament, Bethlehem College & Seminary

Shop Our Best Books on the Psalms

In this influential posthumous masterpiece, Dutch missiologist J. H. Bavinck guides readers in a candid, eloquent, and eye-opening exploration of religion, revelation, and the distinctness of the Christian faith in the context of global religions. Bavinck’s five ‘magnetic points’ (cosmic relationship, religious norm, the riddle of existence, our craving for salvation, and our awareness of a supreme power) are a transformative rubric for bringing Christ to the world, including those identifying as religious “nones.” Now for the first time in hardcover, with a luminary introduction by Daniel Strange, a new generation of Christians, pastors, and theologians can benefit from J. H. Bavinck’s must-read study of the contrast between Christianity and world religions.

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