🌱Seed 😁Strongly-Agree 🟢Conviction 📊Project 📓Journal
Importance: 90%
The Big Idea
I have decided to work toward memorizing the whole book of Psalms. But not just a rote memorization actually having it functionally memorized for meditation and retelling.
Similar Notes: Memory, the Things We Keep with Us Psalms-The Language of Our Heart
An Experiment: Memorizing the Psalter
I am going to memorize handles for each Psalm as a way to start to navigate them within my memory and recall them when needed.
Step one is to come up with a sentence or phrase that captures a key theme or element of that Psalm. this will be the kind of “tag” that I start to memorize
Once I have all 150 tags memorized then we will see how deepening it can go and the way I can use that mental navigation.
Experience of being in the word more things bubble up easier and more often
Shredding Spiritual Muscles experience of reading/listening through the bible in 40 days
Books to read through
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Bonhoeffer on Psalms
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Luther’s Works Volume 10-14
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Saleska’s Psalms commentary
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Letter to Marcellinus translation-jce edit 08242016 final changes accepted (1).pdf
Resources on Chiasms:
- Robert Alter. “The Art of Biblical Poetry,”
- Adele Berlin. “The Dynamics of Biblical Parallelism.”
- Wilfred Watson. “Classical Hebrew Poetry: A Guide to its Techniques.”
Major Recurring Themes
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The King
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The Temple/Sanctuary
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The way of the Righteous vs the way of the wicked