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| Rejoicing and Praise. David and others. 10th century to approx. 6th Century B.C. |
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| Please recite with reference the verse that supports the book summary of Psalm. |
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| Psalm 100:4 Enter into His gates with thanksgiving and into His courts with praise. Be thankful to Him and bless His name. |
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| What kind of book does the book summary call the book of Psalm? |
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| Israel's prayer and praise book. |
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| From your book summary on Psalm, name 3 authors. |
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| David, Hezekiah, Ezra and others. |
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| Your handbook Advocates lists another author of Psalm. Please name this 4th author. |
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| How many books does the book of Psalms consist of? |
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| What is the ending of each of the books within the book of Psalms? |
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| Explain the style in which poets of the book of Psalms wrote their poems. |
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| They did not use rhyme and their meter does not translate into modern language because it counts accents and not syllables. The primary concept of the poems in psalms are parallelism, in which two or three lines align in one of several ways. The Psalms are often very personal, because they are not just poems, but they are poems inspired by the Holy Spirit. |
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| List the 8 different topics or themes of the psalms from you Psalm book summary. |
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| Messianic. Lament. Praise & Thanksgiving. Royal. Wisdom. Penitential. Imprecatory. Pilgrimage. |
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| Define the Messianic Theme for the book of Psalms. |
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| Messianic - pointing to Jesus Christ either in specific prophecies or with a reference to the kings of Israel that will see their ultimate realization when Christ rules over the millennial kingdom. |
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| List the 3 steps of the theme of Lament from your book summary of Psalms. |
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| The author speaks of his distress in trying circumstances, but then states that he trusts God and, finally, that he knows God will see him trough eventually. |
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| The Praise & Thanksgiving theme from the book of Psalms lists 2 things to be thankful for to God. What are they? |
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| The author thanks God for who He is and what He has done for the individual or for the nation of Israel. |
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| Define the royal poems from the book of Psalms. |
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| The author sings about the king and how is is God's representative through whom God will accomplish His plans. |
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| What would a wisdom poem be about? |
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| The author describes life and how his relationship with God is central to it. |
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| List the 2 types of topics you would find in a penitential psalm. |
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| Being sorry for sin and begging God for forgiveness. |
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| Who does the author of imprecatory psalms ask God to judge? |
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| His enemies or the enemies of Israel. |
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| Pilgrimage psalms were sung as the Israelites traveled to these 3 different annual feasts. |
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| Passover, Pentecost and the Feast of Tabernacles. |
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