Exploring the Psalms

I typed that post below up the other day and didn’t get to posting it. I have actually spent the day at the Moore Theological College School of Theology on the Stirred by a Noble Theme: Exploring the Psalms. Apart from the fact that I thought I was going to give myself a hernia trying not to cough in the first lecture, while the tears ran down my face, and my ears have been blocked all day (I thought I was feeling alright yesterday!) it has been a good day. I particularly enjoyed Laurel Moffat doing a little segment on Engaged by Poetry, in which she took us through one of Shakespeare's sonnets, and Andrew Shead’s talk on Theology in Poetry: Translating the Poetry of the Psalms, where he went back to the Hebrew and translated a Psalm into a poetic form more closely resembling the original and also translated one of the Psalms in Lamentations into an acrostic. (It might be no surprise to readers that such things light my fire.)