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  I’ve been looking at the joins between psalms in Book 4 of the Psalter these last few weeks: where they are and aren’t, when they are cons...

I'm working through Amos a few verses a day and came across this nice structure at the end of chapter 5. At the centre of 21-27 is the f...

It's always enlightening reading the Bible in different languages.  Last night at a German-language Bible study group we were going thro...

There's this weird thing which happens in the Great Psalms Scroll in the 16th column. After Psalm 136, Psalm 118 follows directly on. Th...

I was having a look at Psalm 16 today and noted it uses the words בל bal and אף aph a few times (4x & 3x respectively); they also occur ...

Psalm 102 is one of the rare psalms in Book IV to receive a title, and an intriguing one at that. So far we've had: 90: A prayer of Mose...

While researching my masters on the structure Ecclesiastes, I came across John Harvey's "Listening to the Text", where he sets...

It took a while but my copy of Russell Meek's "Ecclesiastes and the Search for Meaning in an Upside-Down World" finally arrive...

Psalm 101 is a David psalm, but not really. It is perhaps a psalm for David, or looking forward to a better David, rather than a psalm about...

I'm in my forties, and I'm back to school. Part of my PhD program is I have to do a couple of classes, so this semester it's Med...

A number of years ago I wrote about Book IV of the Psalter, in some circles known as  the Exodus Collection . I've been slowly working t...

 Psalm 100 is one of the shorter psalms in the Psalter, coming in at only five verses. It has a heading, "Psalm, for thanksgiving,...

 I'm up to Psalm 99 in my meander through Book IV of the Psalter (90-106), and it's a shorter one, only nine verses, but nonetheless...

 Psalm 98 is a bit loud: v1 sing v4 make noise, break forth, exult, praise v5 make music v6 make noise v7 roar v8 clap hands, exult Why the ...

I've been working through the short book of Habakkuk in preparation for a four-week preaching series. It's one of those books which ...