A Book We Read That Also Reads Us A Conversation about the Psalms with Dr. John Goldingay "If you open to the middle of the Bible, you'll probably be in Psalms." "The Psalms are like the worship music of the Old Testament." Those two sentences summed up my (Jesse’s) knowledge of the Psalms for the first twenty years of my life. I memorized Psalm 23 as a kid, and I knew some of the "Greatest Hits" like Psalm 8 and Psalm 139, but for the most part, they remained a mystery. Some exploded with happiness and thanksgiving, others with sadness and anger, and many of them had images and words I did not understand. Selah. Maybe you can relate. But as it turns out, we can understand and experience the Book of Psalms as a wonderful, intricate blessing once we have a little training, and there are few persons better suited for that task than Fuller Seminary's John Goldingay. Dr. Goldingay is the David Allan Hubbard Professor of...
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