by Julie Turner | Jan 13, 2017 | What's Happening
The book of Psalms is a long book in the middle of the Old Testament, part of the ‘Wisdom’ genre of literature. It is one of the longest books in the Bible (the longest by chapters and the 3rd longest in terms of number of words.) Different religious traditions number...
by Julie Turner | Jan 13, 2017 | What's Happening
The Book of Psalms is estimated to have been written between 1440 BC and 586 BC. As with so many books of the Bible, it was written over an extended period of time and we can see many connections between the events we read in other books of the Bible (especially the...
by Julie Turner | Jan 13, 2017 | What's Happening
The Psalms are poems, songs, prayers, expressions of praise and worship which contain prophetic words at times and which were intended for corporate use. When we looked at ‘The Bigger Picture’ of the Bible, we saw that the books of the Bible can be divided into...
by Julie Turner | Jan 13, 2017 | What's Happening
In answering the question ‘Who wrote the Psalms?, we see (as so often) a wide range of authors. It’s unusual for us to know much about who actually wrote the Bible, but 116 of the 150 psalms are given some kind of title, often linking them to real people whose stories...
by Julie Turner | Jan 13, 2017 | What's Happening
The 5Ws – questions beginning with W – are key words which help us in problem-solving and information-gathering and as a teacher, I often had to use such questions to focus pupils’ attention on essential facts. Who? What? When? Where? Why? are important questions...
