NICOT Psalms

Christian Alexander
Christian Alexander Member Posts: 3,008 ✭✭✭
edited November 2024 in English Forum

So I am worried about using the Psalms NICOT volume due to it being authored by 3 different commentators. What is the scope of the commentary and do the authors all agree? I like to see one author write their own commentary. 

Comments

  • Dave Hooton
    Dave Hooton MVP Posts: 36,133

    Have a Look inside

    Christian Alexander said:

    I like to see one author write their own commentary. 

    If you wait a few years it might happen.

    Dave
    ===

    Windows 11 & Android 13

  • DAL
    DAL Member Posts: 10,838 ✭✭✭

    Use this one instead:

    1.  https://www.logos.com/product/170224/a-commentary-on-the-psalms-3-vols 

    DAL

  • mab
    mab Member Posts: 3,071 ✭✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1248486#Comment_1248486

    I agree with DAL. But there are several good Psalms commentaries in addition. EBTC is also very good.

    The mind of man is the mill of God, not to grind chaff, but wheat. Thomas Manton | Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow. Richard Baxter

  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 54,896

    I would like to point out that:

    • the prayer cycle of the Oriental Orthodox Churches recite all 150 psalms (or more depending on their canon) every day
    • a modern synagogue recites all 150 psalms every week
    • the Eastern Orthodox Churches recite all 150 every week
    • the Western Catholic rites until recently also recited them every week (or two weeks for the Ambrosian rite) but now is on a monthly cycle
    • the Huguenots and some other early Protestants used a monthly cycle

    I would suggest that early commentaries and non-Western commentaries often have a depth to them as a result of this intense familiarity with the psalms that Western academic commentaries pale beside.

    Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

Categories