Bibliograph

Joy, despair, and hope, reading Psalms, Edward Feld

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Joy, despair, and hope, reading Psalms, Edward Feld

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Joy, despair, and hope

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Edward Feld

Sub title

reading Psalms

Summary

Joy, Despair, and Hope recaptures the power and immediacy of psalms for modern readers, showing how these biblical poems can speak to us yet again. Accompanying the author on his personal spiritual search through psalms, readers find their own inner lives given voice within these texts. Edward Feld analyzes fifteen personal psalms from the book of Psalms, showing how each provides a different perspective on the life of faith. Feld's insights reveal how individual psalmists struggle with their faith, how they are wracked by doubt and self-questioning, and how they come finally to a greater understanding of faith. This book's clearly articulated analysis is both moving and sophisticated, helping us to enter the spiritual world of these writers, to recognize our own struggles in their ancient words, and to feel these poets alive and walking beside us. Along the way, Feld teaches us how to read psalms as poems and unlocks both their theological message and their literary splendor. Readers emerge with a new appreciation of and connection to the profound religious life and artistry of the biblical psalmists

Target audience

adult

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