Old Testament Exegesis III: Psalms and Wisdom Literature

1. Lectures Listen to the lectures in order. Those marked supplementary are optional.

   • Embracing the Imprecatory Psalms (Christ the Center) Rev. Ryan Swale (pastor, Immanuel URC, Jordan, Ontario) Open source Doctrinal Reformed Forum
   • Epistemology, Antithesis, and Revelation in the Book of Proverbs (Christ the Center) Rev. Andrew Compton (Mid-America Reformed Seminary; minister, URCNA) Open source Doctrinal Reformed Forum
   • Psalm 2: A Biblical Conspiracy Theory (Proclaiming Christ) Jim Cassidy, Mark A. Winder and Robert Arendale Open source Doctrinal Reformed Forum The episode pages name the participants but do not print their churches. Reformed Forum's About page requires its board members to belong to NAPARC or ICRC churches subscribing to the Three Forms or the Westminster Standards, and its board page lists Cassidy (president), Arendale (vice president) and Clawson, so...
   • Signature Psalms: Psalm 23 (Theology Simply Profound) Rob McKenzie and Robert Tarullo Open source Supplementary Reformed Forum
   • Hermeneutics: Christ in the Psalms I and II (lectures 3-4 of 16) Vern Poythress (Westminster Theological Seminary) Lectures 3-4 of 16: 'Christ in the Psalms I' (55:10) and 'Christ in the Psalms II; Application I' (49:51) Open source Doctrinal Westminster Theological Seminary Their doctrinal role rests on their seminaries' faculty subscription requirements (RTS, WTS, GPTS). The RTS and GPTS pages loaded this session give titles and books but not the teacher's denomination; the WTS faculty page did not render for the fetcher. Clowney, Gaffin and Young are historic OPC ministers;...
   • Profetas y Poetas: Salmos, Proverbios, Eclesiastes, Job, Cantares (video and slides) Seminario Reformado Guadalajara (instructor not named on the page) Open source Supplementary Seminario Reformado Guadalajara Instructors are not named on the course pages (the site belongs to Dr. Larry Trotter, Florida Coast Church / Knox Theological Seminary adjunct); the Hebrew and Greek courses are by Mario Porras and Pablo Armero (MINTS), whose church standing is unconfirmed. The site also hosts PDFs of in-copyright textbooks...

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2. Reading Read in the order given. Public-domain and free texts are linked; purchases are optional and never required.

   • A Brief Explication of the First Fifty Psalms David Dickson (Church of Scotland; Westminster Assembly era) Open source Primary text 1653. Public domain
   • A Brief Explication of the Other Fifty Psalms (Ps. 50 to 100) David Dickson Open source Primary text 1653. Public domain
   • A Brief Explication of the Last Fifty Psalms (Ps. 100 to 150) David Dickson Open source Primary text 1654. Public domain
   • The Psalms: Their History, Teachings, and Use William Binnie (Free Church of Scotland) Open source Primary text 1870. Public domain
   • Clavis Cantici: or, an Exposition of the Song of Solomon James Durham (Church of Scotland) Open source Primary text 1723. Public domain
   • Commentary on Psalms, vol. 1 John Calvin (Calvin Translation Society edition) Open source Primary text 1840s-1850s. Public domain
   • The Psalms Translated and Explained J. A. Alexander (Princeton Theological Seminary, Old School Presbyterian) Open source Supplementary 1853. Public domain
   • Annotations upon the Holy Bible, vol. 1 (1688 edition) Matthew Poole Broken link Primary text 1688. Public domain English Presbyterian nonconformists outside the Scottish and Dutch lines, though Westminster-confessing; Henry is broadly used across traditions. Poole kept as primary-text (cross-tradition, read beside Calvin and the Dutch Annotations); Henry kept as supplementary, as in the raw file.
   • The Dutch Annotations upon the Whole Bible (Statenvertaling annotations, English 1657) Theodore Haak (translator and editor); annotations commissioned by the Synod of Dort (1618) Open source Primary text 1657. Public domain
   • The New Self-Interpreting Bible, vol. 2 John Brown of Haddington Open source Primary text Public domain Secession (Associate, United Secession, United Presbyterian) divines held the Westminster Standards with the Secession declaration on the civil magistrate (voluntaryism), which differs from WCF 23 (1647) and from the Free Church establishment principle. Kept as primary-text for exegesis; the civil-magistrate...
   • Matthew Henry's Commentary, vol. 3 (Job to Song of Solomon) Matthew Henry Open source Supplementary Public domain English Presbyterian nonconformists outside the Scottish and Dutch lines, though Westminster-confessing; Henry is broadly used across traditions. Poole kept as primary-text (cross-tradition, read beside Calvin and the Dutch Annotations); Henry kept as supplementary, as in the raw file.

3. Assignment Write a research paper of 10-20 pages on a topic drawn from the lectures and readings of this course. Argue from Scripture, the Westminster Standards (1647 text) and the Three Forms of Unity, cite the primary sources you read, and state the points on which the sources differ.

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Every lecture and reading carries its role. "Under review" means the teacher's subscription to the Westminster Standards or the Three Forms of Unity is not yet established; "Read as comparison" means the material teaches the 1788 American text of WCF 20.4, 23 or 31 or of Larger Catechism Q.109, which the school reads beside the 1647 text. Nothing has been removed.