Songs from a Strange Land: Psalms 42-51
ISBN 978 1894667 17 3
176 pages.
Published 1/6/2003
£12.00
Paperback
Most of Scripture tells us about God. The Psalms tell God about us? Originally published as part of the excellent ‘Bible Speaks Today’ series, John Goldingay applies his academic mind and spiritual heart to asking what Psalms 42-51 have to say to us today. What becomes most obvious is that the Psalms were written by real people who struggled to make sense of the real situations they faced in their own lives.
JOHN GOLDINGAY is David Allan Hubbard Professor of Old Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. He is the author of numerous scholarly books and commentaries on Daniel (Word Biblical Commentary) and Isaiah (New International Biblical Commentary). He has also written several more popular expositions such as After Eating the Apricot and Men Behaving Badly.
Originally published as part of the excellent ‘Bible Speaks Today’ series, John Goldingay applies his academic mind and spiritual heart to asking what Psalms 42-51 have to say to us today. What becomes most obvious is that the Psalms were written by real people who struggled to make sense of the real situations they faced in their own lives. This is the secret to how we today, who face the same problems – although in a very different culture, can find hope when all seems hopeless. The God who they met in their struggles is the same God who want to meet us in ours. The conclusion of this book is that the God of the Psalms was not only to be encountered within the confines of formal ‘religion’, but out on the street, in the place of work and in the reality of the family….as indeed is as true today as it was then.
John Goldingay does not tell us what to think or believe, rather he “opens a curtain” on the Psalms and lets them speak for themselves
John Milne (Amazon review)