Reading the Psalms as Scripture - Hardcover

Hamilton, James M. Jr.; Damico, Matthew

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1683597761 ISBN 13: 9781683597766

Publisher: Faithlife Corporation, 2024

Synopsis

Winner of 2025 Christianity Today Book Award, Bible and Devotion

The psalms cultivate a life of prayer grounded in Scripture. In Reading the Psalms as Scripture, James M. Hamilton Jr. and Matthew Damico guide the reader to delight in the spiritual artistry of the psalms. Psalms is a carefully arranged book saturated in Scripture. The psalmists drew from imagery and themes from earlier Scripture, which are then developed by later Scripture and fulfilled in Christ. The book of psalms advances God's grand story of redemption, and it gives us words to pray by drawing us into this story. When we meditate on the promises and patterns in the psalms, we can read, pray, and sing them with faithfulness.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Reading the Psalms as a Book
Reading the Psalms with Their Superscriptions
Reading the Psalms as Individual Compositions
Reading the Psalms in the Psalter
Reading the Psalms in Light of Earlier Scripture
Reading the Psalms and Messianic Typology
Reading the Psalms as Interpreted by Later Old Testament Authors
Reading the Psalms as Interpreted by New Testament Authors
Singing the Psalms as Christians
Seven Theses on How to Read the Psalms

About this title

About the Authors

James M. Hamilton Jr., PhD, is professor of Old Testament interpretation and biblical theology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and senior pastor of Kenwood Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky. He is the author of several books, most recently Typology and a two-volume commentary on the Psalms in the Evangelical Biblical Theology Commentary series.

James M. Hamilton Jr. is professor of biblical theology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and senior pastor of Kenwood Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky. He is the author of two volumes on Psalms in the Evangelical Biblical Theology Commentary and of Typology--Understanding the Bible's Promise-Shaped Patterns.

Matthew Damico is pastor of worship and operations at Kenwood Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky, and director of Kenwood Music.

From the Back Cover

The psalms cultivate a life of prayer grounded in Scripture.

In Reading the Psalms as Scripture, James M. Hamilton Jr. and Matthew Damico guide the reader to delight in the spiritual artistry of the psalms. Psalms is a carefully arranged book saturated in Scripture. The psalmists drew from imagery and themes from earlier Scripture, which are then developed by later Scripture and fulfilled in Christ. The book of psalms advances God's grand story of redemption, and it gives us words to pray by drawing us into this story. When we meditate on the promises and patterns in the psalms, we can read, pray, and sing them with faithfulness.

Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Reading the Psalms as a Book
- Reading the Psalms with Their Superscriptions
- Reading the Psalms as Individual Compositions
- Reading the Psalms in the Psalter
- Reading the Psalms in Light of Earlier Scripture
- Reading the Psalms and Messianic Typology
- Reading the Psalms as Interpreted by Later Old Testament Authors
- Reading the Psalms as Interpreted by New Testament Authors
- Singing the Psalms as Christians
- Seven Theses on How to Read the Psalms

Edition details

• Publisher: Faithlife Corporation
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1683597761
• ISBN 13: 9781683597766
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 152