The Psalms: Songs of Tragedy, Hope, and Justice Spirituality & Prayer_ Spirituality This day I call to

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The Psalms: Songs of Tragedy, Hope, and Justice Spirituality & Prayer_ Spirituality This day I call to"A clarion call to those who read and repeat the words of the Psalms, to receive and understand them as marching orders in the campaign for human rights and dignity. Only in this way can [their] full meaning be grasped and appropriated in our day." David Noel Freedman "By bringing together this urgency for justice and the gains of genre analysis, Pleins offers a reading of the Psalms that is responsive to the socio political impulses all around us,