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Psalms and Song of Songs

  1. Lesson One
    Overview of Poetry
    31 Activities
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    1 Assessment
  2. Lesson Two
    Poetic Structures
    22 Activities
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    1 Assessment
  3. Lesson Three
    Praise and Lament
    24 Activities
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    2 Assessments
  4. Lesson Four
    The Diversity of Psalms
    28 Activities
  5. Lesson Five
    Song of Songs
    20 Activities
  6. Course Wrap-Up
    Course Completion
    1 Activity
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    1 Assessment

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Psalms and Song of Songs Poetic Structures In Front | Psalter in History
Lesson 2, Activity 21

In Front | Psalter in History

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In this lesson we’ve discussed formal and literary structures of the Psalms. We’ll close the lesson looking at some images of Psalter manuscripts from Early Church history and from two different regions. Why? Because the written page (words and pictures) is itself an expression of interpreting ancient psalms.

These Psalms (109-110) in Greek are examples of an unadorned page of biblical text common in the earliest decades of the church. 

These Psalms (21:30–23:9) on papyrus are from the third or fourth century AD. They’re ancient texts discovered in the 1950s called the Bodmer Papyri.

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