Ep 73. Introduction to Biblical Poetry and the Psalms: Women's Bible Study

Woot! Woot!! Y'all I'm super excited about this week as we prepare to read the First Book of Psalms, which is chapters 1-41. In this episode of our Women's Bible Study we take a look at some of the elements of Biblical poetry so we can readily recognize them as we are reading, and we can let them help us understand and interpret more accurately.

We take a look at how Biblical poetry is a condensed form of writing.

We identify parallelism and look at a few examples from our sample reading last week.

We look at how the writers use imagery to paint word pictures, and we talk about why it's important to draw these images out of the pages and bring them to life to enhance our understanding.

We look at the "homework" from last weeks prepisode and match the Psalm with the genre or type from the "Big 5."

And then we finish off with our regular housekeeping when we start a new book: who, when, to whom, and why. I cannot wait for y'all to actually get started this week!

Just for fun, here is my most favorite poem that I mention in the episode, The Song of Wandering Aengus by WB Yeats:

I went out to the hazel wood,
Because a fire was in my head,
And cut and peeled a hazel wand,
And hooked a berry to a thread;
And when white moths were on the wing,
And moth-like stars were flickering out,
I dropped the berry in a stream
And caught a little silver trout.

When I had laid it on the floor
I went to blow the fire a-flame,
But something rustled on the floor,
And someone called me by my name:
It had become a glimmering girl
With apple blossom in her hair
Who called me by my name and ran
And faded through the brightening air.

Though I am old with wandering
Through hollow lands and hilly lands,
I will find out where she has gone,
And kiss her lips and take her hands;
And walk among long dappled grass,
And pluck till time and times are done
The silver apples of the moon,
The golden apples of the sun.