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Psalms Layer By Layer
Psalms: Layer by Layer is a project of Scriptura seeking to provide scholarly yet accessible resources to Bible Translation teams working on the book of Psalms.
As poetry, the Psalms derive much of their beauty and power not only from their content but also their very language. Translators need to understand the content, the form, and the poetic interplay if they are to make translations with equally high communicative effect and literary quality.
Our aim is to provide visualisations and resources that make accessible the rhetorical, high-level discourse structure of each Hebrew poem while also providing the full grammatical, syntactic and semantic foundations on which such an analysis must depend. Read more Read more about Psalms: Layer by Layer.
Psalms in green are in draft form and being beta-tested.
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The Psalms
- Explore the History of Interpretation of Psalms and learn about different ways people have read the Psalms over the last two thousand years.
- See summaries of some of the most influential books written on the Psalms in the last 100 years:
- Hermann Gunkel, Introduction to the Psalms (1933)
- Sigmund Mowinckel, The Psalms in Israel's Worship (1962)
- Gerald Wilson, The Editing of the Hebrew Psalter (1985).
- More books!
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