A Class Series on the Psalms:
Psalms: God in Song
with Bible teacher Galen Goldsmith, MAR, Mphil
A 10-week, 1-hour class series via Zoom on Thursdays
beginning Thursday, April 25, 2024
8pm Eastern time (7pm Central, 6pm Mountain, 5pm Pacific, GMT -5hrs)
Can't make it live? Everyone enrolled will have access to the video replay.
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Description: Among the 150 poems addressed to God in the Psalter one can find a special language for God that is drawn from Ex 34:6-7, which I will paraphrase in part:
The Lord, the Lord, a God compassionate and gracious, slow to anger and great in love and truth; Who keeps steadfast covenant to thousands, who forgives iniquity, sin and transgression; who does not forgive without cleansing; … .
Our class will review the structure and history of the book of Psalms as part of good education. However, the end of our research is to learn about God from the Psalms.
Many, many psalms used the words of Ex 34:6-7 to create extensive and rich portraits of God in relation people in every kind of situation, from royal glory to desperate need. We will see how those divine attributes became the accepted traditional vocabulary for God amongst psalmists.
Over centuries the sphere of relevance of each attribute was developed by many biblical authors. Especially in the psalms, the whole character and nature of the LORD descended into the midst of human situations that reveal what it means to us that God is with us.
The psalms are morally complex, so we will also find that they take the human need for atonement to be an absolute necessity. Nonetheless, we hope to gain an abiding understanding of the goodness of the LORD our God, “who made heaven, and earth, the sea and all that in them is, who keeps truth forever.” (Ps 146:6)
Let us bless the LORD, “who forgives all our iniquities and heals all our diseases, who redeems our lives from destruction and crowns us with lovingkindness and tender mercies.” (Ps 103:3-4) |
Galen Goldsmith
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| Galen Goldsmith has a BA in Philosophy from Colorado College, MAR in Biblical Studies from Iliff School of Theology, and MPhil in Classical Hebrew Exegesis from Cambridge University in England. She is proficient in Hebrew and has studied Greek, Aramaic, Akkadian, and is learning to read Egyptian hieroglypics! She once read the entire Bible in its original languages. Between 2008 and 2017 she wrote explanations of why English translations differ on every verse of interest in the Old Testament and New Testament for the "Meaning and Manuscript" window of the free online bible study site, "Scriptural Tools for Every Person" (STEP) at https://stepbible.org/html/en-28.html STEP is produced and published by Tyndale House Library, Cambridge. After many years of preliminary work, Galen has been researching and writing a book about a biblical Hebrew topic full time since August of 2017 and is preparing the manuscript for peer review in 2021. For this project she was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Rothberg International School, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and lived in Jerusalem for a total of 16 months in 2014, 2018-19 and 2019-2020. |
