Reading this volume is like "listening in" as a Psalms scholar ponders the text. Instead of a piecemeal introduction to multiple fields of study (dating, intertextuality, grammar, accents, lexis, word order, etc.), this handbook offers a synthetic experience of one text and how to understand it with the benefit of all the study that has gone before.
~Elizabeth Robar, CEO, Scriptura
For intermediate and advanced students of Hebrew, as well as their teachers, John Screnock’s reference work is a gift that performs a great pedagogical service. Screnock helpfully unpacks and often reframes difficult grammatical issues related to Hebrew poetry and applies them to a theologically central portion of Psalms with great interpretive effect. But his focus is not limited to grammar alone: genre analysis, literary context, lyric sequencing, parallelism, Masoretic accentuation, and shape (as opposed to structure) all play definitive roles in this generative study. Highly recommended!
~William P. Brown, William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament, Columbia Theological Seminary
John Screnock is easily among the very best Psalms scholars and Hebraists active in the field today. His handbook on Psalms 90-100 is at once learned, creative, and remarkably thorough. It will be at my elbow whenever I look at these particular psalms—indeed, given its comprehensiveness and utility, I will have it close at hand when I look at any psalm.
~Brent A. Strawn, D. Moody Smith Distinguished Professor of Old Testament and Professor of Law, Duke Divinity School
