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Fred G. Zaspel reviews Marlowe and Savelle’s “Psalms, volume 1: The Wisdom Psalms,” deeming it “a useful addition to my Psalms library” for preachers. He commends its grouping “according to genre or psalm-type” and “careful” exegetical guidance, offering “strategies” and “insight and application.”
However, Zaspel raises “criticism regarding a few foundational issues.” He objects to the authors’ view that NT apostles took Psalms “out of context,” calling it “a very mistaken way to represent the apostles’ use of the Old Testament.” He strongly disputes their “explicit rejection of the genuineness of the Psalms’ superscripts,” arguing this “goes against all historical and manuscript evidence” and that “Jesus and the apostles understood the superscripts as genuine.” Zaspel also notes assumptions of “a late date of the psalms” and editors “not working under divine inspiration.” Despite “important caveats,” he finds the commentary “a useful addition.”