In Front | Psalter in History

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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