The Psalms: Songs of Tragedy, Hope, and Justice

By J. David Pleins

Book Overview

"A clarion call to those who read and repeat the words of the Psalms, to receive and understand them as marching orders in the campaign for human rights and dignity. Only in this way can their] full meaning be grasped and appropriated in our day."--David Noel Freedman

"By bringing together this urgency for justice and the gains of genre analysis, Pleins offers a reading of the Psalms that is responsive to the socio-political impulses all around us, which require theological-liturgical response. His is an important reading of this ancient/contemporary poetry."--Walter Brueggemann

This stirring new translation of the ancient hymns and prayers of the psalter provides on new perspecftive on their meaning for both individuals nad communities, from biblical times to the present. Pleins reveals in the Psalms the core of a liberating worship that grasps the realities of individual suffering as well as the stern demands of social justice.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0883449285
• ISBN13: 9780883449288
• Release Date: September 1993
• Publisher: Orbis Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

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I found this book to be helpful both in a classroom setting and in my own devotional time. It opened the Psalms up in a new way. I've even used it as a source when preparing teaching material.