Download e-book for kindle: Psalm 49 and the Path to Redemption by Janet K. Smith

In Psalm forty nine and the trail to Redemption, Janet Smith revisits her PhD dissertation, dirt or Dew: Immortality within the historic close to East and in Psalm forty nine, reconfiguring the publication for a common viewers and increasing it to target a subject matter of biblical redemption. the hot paintings takes the reader throughout the improvement of Israel's trust in an afterlife, either the optimistic desire but additionally the destructive destiny of these who're spiritually impoverished. past that, Psalm forty nine takes the reader into the brain and center of the sages and clergymen who wrote the various psalms. There we discover how a lot we percentage with them emotionally and spiritually. when you consider that Christianity is a flow with roots within the outdated testomony, the reader is brought to a few vital redemption techniques as expressed by means of Jesus Christ. ultimately, the e-book experiences a couple of glossy near-death reports to invite if the Scriptures concerning afterlife have relevance this present day. This ebook is assumed frightening and may reason somebody analyzing it to contemplate their very own own route to redemption.

"Psalm forty nine reminds us there are not any wallet in a shroud; in loss of life the wealthy and the bad are both impoverished. Janet Smith takes us on a pilgrimage from dying to existence within the historic international and in cutting-edge spirituality. Informative. attention-grabbing. Compelling."
--Ted Peters, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, the Graduate Theological Union

"This booklet may still attract those who desire to pass deeper into the Bible. Focusing totally on the Psalms, Dr. Smith strains a number of suggestions of lifestyles after dying from its dim beginnings in precedent days as much as the current day. Psalm forty nine is her important motif: the trustworthy may well leisure effortless, either right here and within the grave, as the God of existence won't ever forsake those that belief him, now not their wealth."
--David G. Mullen, Lutheran pastor, retired bishop of the ELCA

"Throughout the paintings, Smith's convictions shine through. This presentation announces that insights she received from studying the traditional texts are appropriate for at the present time simply because they replicate the truth of a dwelling God. Rooted in sound scholarship, good written, and persuasively argued, the paintings can be of profit to critical Christian pastors and laity alike."
--D. William Faupel, Wesley Theological Seminary, Retired

Janet ok. Smith has a PhD in Hebrew Bible from Union Institute & college. She is a former illustrator and geologic draftsperson and shortly teaches previous testomony periods in her Lutheran Church. She is writer of dirt or Dew: Immortality within the historical close to East and in Psalm forty nine (Pickwick, 2011).