Best Commentaries on Psalms

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Melinda Cousins is Director of Ministries for Baptist Churches SA. Previously, she oversaw the training and accreditation of pastors as well as teaching biblical studies at Tabor Adelaide. She completed her PhD on the Psalms in 2016, looking at ideas of performance, emotion, imagination, and embodiment.

Introductions:

Invitation to the Psalms: A Reader's Guide for Discovery and Engagement

Rolf A. Jacobson (Author), Karl Jacobson (Primary Contributor)

Baker Academic

192 pages

Commentaries:

The Book of Psalms Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Robert Alter (Author)

0 pages

Psalms (New Cambridge Bible Commentary)

Walter Brueggemann (Author), William H. Bellinger Jr (Author)

Cambridge University Press

660 pages