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Patrick D. Miller seeks to help interpreters of the Psalms "find entre into them in various ways to hear their theological claims and their point of contact with human life." In Part One, Miller examines the dominant "general approaches" that are currently shaping the study of psalms. He pays special attention to the poetic features of the psalms so as to aid the task of understanding their meaning. In Part Two, he offers extended expositions of ten specific Psalms-1, 2, 14, 22, 23, 82, 90, 127, 130, and 139. These Psalms are interpreted with an eye to theological and pastoral issues and with a sensitivity to their features and to their significance as Christian Scripture.

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Patrick D. Miller is Charles T. Haley Professor of Old Testament Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary and the author of two Fortress Press volumes: They Cried to the Lord: The Form and Theology of Biblical Prayer (1994) and Interpreting the Psalms (1986).

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fortress Press (April 1, 1986)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 176 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0800618963
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0800618964
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.07 x 0.4 x 9.02 inches
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Haven't read the entire book yet, but it is very insightful. I have learned much about understanding the Psalms.
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I come to the Psalms either because we rapidly prayed Psalm 135:3 (Oh give thanks .. ) before family dinner as a child or due to the rhythm of the Litany of the Hours from the monks at Gethsemani and St. Meinrad, so I think the chapter on “Poetry and Interpretation” was most meaningful for me. The parallelism and the form, and then occasional ambiguous phrases make them timeless.
The first chapter on “Current Issues”, probably more useful to minister or seminary student. The chapter on Laments helps one to understand the commonality of anger toward God and “enemies” .. these were written by a “representative human being”
The second part of exposition of the 10 poems, was very well done, and I will reread these sections when I encounter these psalms again. His selection of picking Psalm 1 and 2, and 22 and 23 show the pairing of these psalms and helpful interpretations. (He also includes 14, 82, 90, 127, 130, and 139.)
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An excellent book. Strongly Recommend.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2018
Some of this book consists of previously published, collected essays and these are “capable of being read discretely. …Each chapter stands on its own and can be read on its own.” (p. ix) The author relies heavily on approaches and interpretations developed by Karl Barth, Joachim Becker, Walter Brueggemann, John Adney Emerton, Sigmund Mowinckel, and Claus Westermann.

The latter part of the book, roughly seventy pages, is devoted to author Miller’s detailed “expositions” of ten psalms, “texts of large significance that belong to any preaching and teaching of the psalms in the [Christian] community of faith. …It may be that some readers of the volume will find one or two of the expositions the most useful part of the book.” (p.ix) While that last assertion may be true, all ten interpretations, treatments, or expositions are likely to take the reader to places in each psalm where the reader hasn’t been before.

Although it has lost ascendancy in the last decades, I remain quite partial to the cultic approach to psalmody taken by Sigmund Mowinckel, Artur Weiser, and (to some extent) John H. Eaton. While this author pays due heed to such views, he seems cautious about taking them all that far. (A person with any degree of serious interest in the psalms should have Weiser’s comprehensive  The Psalms: A Commentary (The Old Testament Library)  handy. Miller does acknowledge that “for many persons it has been the most helpful” commentary but advises “users of the commentary to treat these [cultic] references lightly.” (p. 155) This puckish remark almost tempts me to subtract an Amazon star!)

“Resources for Further Study,” at the end of the book, has insightful and useful annotations for the well-chosen English-only resources—but necessarily can be current only to the mid-eighties.
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