EGAD— If it's important to you it's significant to us
Book 1: 1-41-most are related to David, calls to covenant faithfulness
Book 2: 42-72- Psalm 42 & 43 and closes with Psalm 72- future Messianic King
Book 3: 73-89- Promise of a Messianic Kingdom and Exile
Book 4: 90-106- From Moses' song to the announcement of Lord Reigning as king
Book 5: 107-145 Messianic King & Messianic kingdom - Horn for his people
King David wrote almost half of the poems in this book - a literary temple
A prayerbook for exiles as a virtual Temple: an upright human in God's kingdom
Torah - like a tree of life: a king would come from the line of David
Hope for the coming Messiah & Kingdom of God
Biblical Poetry uses a different kind of order, usually a couplet to:
Complete the thought, Deepen the thought, or Contrast the thought
Refrain, Inclusio, Chiasm, and Forward Symmetry are different designs used
Overall, the Biblical Poetry helps us to use imagination to understand God's word!
Poetry is a way of expressing our ideas using our imagination
Connecting a concept to another concept: dangerous people as stormy waters
Uncreated world is the darkness
Garden of Eden - imagery of an ancient temple
Begins and ends in the same way: praise Yah - praise the LORD
Hallelujah: hey you over there, you should pray the LORD
Summoning the entire cosmos to praise the creator!
To bring the victory of the whole world by bringing the victory to Israel first