dad

Why don’t you ask Dr. Minnick about Bullinger when you get a chance? He had it listed in a recent Frontline as a recommended resource for Psalms. That’s why I got it.

dad

!Beªl; tWmïl.[

The first is Derek Kidner’s fine commentary on the Psalms. His notes are brief, but every one is full of insight. If you are a preacher, you will find good help here for sermon preparation. I think that anyone would benefit by having a clearer understanding of the Psalms through using his commentary.

I like Kidner too. I think his introduction in volume 1 is worth the whole commentary in terms of understanding the Psalms, but have always found the commentary portions helpful. I’m sure there are other helpful introductions to the Psalms available, but Kidner first helped open up the book to me. The sections on Messianic psalms and imprecatory psalms were very helpful.

I’m not sure about Bullinger’s theories. The parallel is tempting to apply to the Psalm divisions as well, but I’m not sure the Masoretes got it wrong the first time. I’m sure I’ll learn more about that someday.

I did a little checking on the idea that עַלְמ֥וּת לַבֵּן (ʿalmût labbe̅n) might refer to Goliath. Kidner includes the possibility, but seems to prefer a more literal approach, noting that it literally means “upon, (or about, according to) the death for (or of) the son”. (p41)

Anyway, this was interesting… hopefully nobody will take these thoughts too seriously (if you didn’t know already, I’m only in first year Hebrew). It was fun to experiment with Unicode for the first time too, I hope it actually worked… (I used Shibboleth from Logos for some help).