Preaching the Psalms/Journey through the Psalms

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Preaching the Psalms/Journey through the Psalms

by J. Clinton McCann, Jr., and James C. Howell

Abingdon, Nashville, 2001. 144 pp. $15.00. ISBN 0687-04499-5.

Journey through the Psalms

by Denise Dombkowski Hopkins

Revised and Expanded. Chalice, St. Louis, 2002. 176pp. 26.99 (cloth). ISBN 0-8272-1714-5.

"FOR MANY CLERGY," write McCann and Howell, "there is nothing obvious about preaching the Psalms." As part of the Old Testament, the psalms are often seen as "riddled with bulls and altars, pleas for vengeance, kings and priests, a passion for the temple-all the agenda we think the New Testament ...

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