Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Titles of Psalms 42-89

From John Goldingay’s new volume of commentary on the Psalms:

Psalms 42–43: Coping with Separation from God’s Presence 19
Psalm 44: Coping with Defeat 35
Psalm 45: The True King and True Queen 52
Psalm 46: Trust and Stop 64
Psalm 47: God Has Begun to Reign 74

Psalm 48: God Made Known in the City of God 82
Psalm 49: Can Death Be Escaped? 95
Psalm 50: Worship and Life 108
Psalm 51: Sin, Cleansing, Renewal 122
Psalm 52: Divine and Human Commitment 141
Psalm 53: Is God There? 149
Psalm 54: The Name That Rescues 157
Psalm 55: How to Throw Things at Yhwh 163
Psalm 56: Fear of Humanity, Trust in God 181
Psalm 57: Simultaneously Expecting and Possessing 191
Psalm 58: The Gods Must and Will Fulfill Their Responsibility 201
Psalm 59: How to Pray in Terror 211
Psalm 60: How to Claim God’s Past Word 224
Psalm 61: How Prayer Suspends the Distantness 235
Psalm 62: The Heart of Old Testament Theology 243
Psalm 63: A Threefold Dynamic for Life 254
Psalm 64: The Power of Language and the Power of Recollection 264
Psalm 65: Politics and Harvest, Israel and the World 272
Psalm 66: Praise and Thanksgiving, Community and Individual, Israel and the World 285
Psalm 67: Blessed for the Sake of the World 298
Psalm 68: God Then and Now 305
Psalm 69: When People Mock Zeal for Yhwh’s House 335
Psalm 70: A Plea for Haste 357
Psalm 71: The God of Past, Present, and Future 363
Psalm 72: A Vision for Government 379
Psalm 72:18–20: Coda to Book II 395
Psalm 73: Yes, God Will Restore Me 397
Psalm 74: What Is Permanent? 420
Psalm 75: In Your Way and in Your Time 438
Psalm 76: Revere or Fear 448
Psalm 77: The Pain and the Hope of Recollection 458
Psalm 78: The Story That Needs Passing On 474
Psalm 79: When Nations Attack Us and Scorn God 517
Psalm 80: Praying for Joseph 531
Psalm 81: Do Listen! 545
Psalm 82: God Must Accept Responsibility 558
Psalm 83: Confrontation, Shame, Death, Acknowledgment 571
Psalm 84: The Double Good Fortune of the Trusting Person 586
Psalm 85: God Speaks of Shalom 603
Psalm 86: A Servant’s Claim on His Master 617
Psalm 87: The Nations as Citizens of Zion 631
Psalm 88: Abba, Father 642
Psalm 89: Facing Two Sets of Facts (Again) 660
Psalm 89:52: Coda to Book III 693

(For more Psalm titles, see Goldingay’s first and third commentaries on the Psalms. Also see Barry Bandstra’s Psalm titles.)

Posted by Nathan Bierma on 11/28 at 02:05 PM
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