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User's Guide Contents
Welcome to Psalms: Layer by Layer
Welcome to Psalms: Layer by Layer, created by Scriptura. Whether you are an artist, translator, scholar, pastor, or simply a lover of the psalms, we hope our extensive resources will be a doorway into discovering for yourself the breathtaking beauty and power of these ancient poems.
This User’s Guide provides introductions and explanations for all of our resources, along with video tutorials. To learn more about the background and work of Scriptura and the Psalms: Layer by Layer project, click here.
Resources
Every psalm has a Home Page where you will find the resource map of everything we offer for that psalm.
Click on a link below to open to the User's Guide description of that section.
- Listen to audio recordings and read the psalm with different text views.
- Orientation to the psalm as a whole including message, structure, background and participants.
- Explore the psalm through different layers of analysis: Grammar & Semantics (Lexical, Phrase-Level, and Verbal), Story Behind the Psalm, Participants, Macrosyntax, Speech Act, Emotional Analysis, Poetic Structure, and Poetic Features.
- Explore the psalm verse-by-verse and section-by-section, more similar to a traditional commentary-style walkthrough.
- Top three tough questions for each psalm, explaining different scholarly interpretations and offering our perspective.
- Translation Aids and Resources written by translation experts, reframing all of our resources to meet the specific needs of translators, including performance notes.