Bible Reading Group: Week 10
Our reading task at hand for this week is the reading of Psalms 51-100. You’ll notice that the arrangement of these psalms falls into three different “books.” David is featured once again in many of these psalms, but also notice the non-Davidic psalms—notably the Sons of Korah group and the Asaph group.
The psalms are rich in their beautiful literary art. Notice the many parallelisms throughout, a favorite form of Hebrew poetry. The most common forms of parallelism in the Psalms are synonymous parallelism and antithetic parallelism. In synonymous parallelism the thought(s) of the first line are repeated in the second, while in antithetic, an opposite thought is stated in the second line. Note many of the other literary features such as similes (using “like” or “as”), synecdoche (using a part of something to describe the whole), and personification (characteristics of living beings to describe an inanimate object.)
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Phil Huebner
Pastor Huebner has been the pastor of Christ the King Palm Coast, FL since its beginning. He came to Palm Coast in 2007 to start the church as a brand new mission church. He has overseen CTK from its start with just three families that met in his living room. Now he serves as pastor of a very large congregation with many wonderful families!
