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Book review of Psalms 1-71 is here.
Book review of Psalms 73-150 is here.

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Sigmund Mowinckel’s The Psalms in Israel’s Worship is a brilliant book and if you have not yet read it then I would urge you remedy that situation ASAP!

Foreword: The Book of Psalms and Its Interpreters,
by James L. Crenshaw
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Translator’s Preface
Author’s Preface to the English Edition
VOLUME I

The Psalms and the Cult

The problem
Testimonies about [...]

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I recently received a copy of Geoffrey Grogan’s Psalms from the Two Horizons Old Testament Commentary series. I am roughly half way through it and from what I have read thus far it is excellent.
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Geoffrey Grogan here tackles the growing field of Psalms research and presents an accessible theological treatment of the Psalter. He begins [...]

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Beth Tanner reviews Hermann Gunkel’s Introduction to the Psalms: The Genres of the Religious Lyric of Israel here.
David M. Howard reviews this book here.
You can view it in Google books here.

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Read Thomas Hieke’s review of Steven Parrish’s A Story of the Psalms: Conversation, Canon, and Congregation here.
You can view it in Google books here.

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J. Todd Borger reviews David N. Freedman’s Psalm 119: The Exaltation of Torah here.

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A superb and non-technical introduction to the Psalms is Transformed by Praise: The Purpose and Message of the Psalms by Mark Futato.

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A review of Frank-Lothar Hossfeld and Erich Zenger’s Psalms 2: A Commentary on Psalms 51-–100 can be found here.

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