{"product_id":"the-psalms-songs-of-tragedy-hope-and-justice-paperback","title":"The Psalms: Songs of Tragedy, Hope, and Justice - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn David Pleins\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A clarion call to those who read and repeat the words of the Psalms, to receive and understand them as marching orders in the campaign for human rights and dignity. Only in this way can [their] full meaning be grasped and appropriated in our day.\"--\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Noel Freedman\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"By bringing together this urgency for justice and the gains of genre analysis, Pleins offers a reading of the Psalms that is responsive to the socio-political impulses all around us, which require theological-liturgical response. His is an important reading of this ancient\/contemporary poetry.\"--\u003cstrong\u003eWalter Brueggemann\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis stirring new translation of the ancient hymns and prayers of the psalter provides on new perspecftive on their meaning for both individuals nad communities, from biblical times to the present. Pleins reveals in the Psalms the core of a liberating worship that grasps the realities of individual suffering as well as the stern demands of social justice.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJ. David Pleins\u003c\/strong\u003e is professor of religious studies at Santa Clara University, California. His other books include The Social Vision of the Hebrew Bible and The Evolving God: Charles Darwin on the Naturalness of Religion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.62 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 1993\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50446009041133,"sku":"9780883449288","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/products\/the-psalms-songs-of-tragedy-hope-and-justice-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}