Commentary on Psalm 119:1-8
The most important lessons get taught by accident. Daniel Boyarin is one of the most [...]
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Commentary on Psalm 119:1-8
Most modern Christians find Psalm 119 rather difficult to engage. After all, at 176 verses, [...]
Commentary on Psalm 119:33-40
Reading Psalm 119, one can appreciate why Jesus’ contemporaries objected to his ambivalence about the [...]
Commentary on Psalm 119:33-40
Psalm 119, the longest of the Psalter with 176 verses, is a great meditation on [...]
Commentary on Psalm 2
Transfiguration is a Sunday that suffers considerable theological confusion. It’s the same confusion we suffer every Sunday, [...]
Commentary on Psalm 2
Psalm 2 makes a striking claim: in the face of terrifying threats, God creates and preserves order [...]
Commentary on Psalm 51:1-17
Most psalms picture the supplicant as an essentially righteous person.1 Yet Psalm 51 presents matters [...]
Commentary on Psalm 51:1-17
Most psalms picture the supplicant as an essentially righteous person. Yet Psalm 51 presents matters [...]
Commentary on Psalm 32
Psalm 32 is one of the six psalms the church traditionally identified for the rite of penance [...]
Commentary on Psalm 32
For around a hundred years, “form criticism” has provided the dominant approach to interpreting the psalms. In [...]
