Geographical Voices in the Psalms

Lectures: Wednesdays 8:00pm-9:30pm Eastern Time

Cost: $195

Recorded Lectures: Yes

Description

The Bible is a book of life, a book that is living and active (Hebrews 4:12), teeming with life: Creative life, striving life, flourishing life, and redemptive life. One of the things that makes the Bible alive for us is that it is fully immersed in the world of creation, a world that is real, that can be marked on a map, that can be visited, and that can be lived in. While the Psalms are for everyone, they are embedded in experiences of people who lived at particular times and in particular places in the land of ancient Israel. The realities of that land, many of which can be experienced yet today, provided ready images for the psalmists who used them as voices to point to larger realities, those of God, us, and the journeys that bind us together.

Instructor

Dr. Paul Wright: President Emeritus, Jerusalem University College. B.A., Bethel University; M.A., Institute of Holy Land Studies / Jerusalem University College; M.A., Trinity Evangelical Divinity School; M.Phil, Ph.D., Hebrew Union College. Excavations at Ramat Rachel, Giloh, and Tel Rehov. Recipient of the President's Medallion, Hebrew Union College. Published author. Began teaching at JUC in 1996.