Since shepherds weren’t by definition males—and in fact by definition both males and females—then Psalm 23’s metaphor of God as a shepherd need not be limited to being represented as a male shepherd.

He was clearly uncomfortable about how all this made him feel, what all this stoked in him. The line in the 23 rd Psalm that speaks of liberation from this otherwise near-constant stoking of desire is ...

Instead, it boldly ventures to say what the Book of Psalms is and to propose we read it accordingly. As the book’s title suggests, Hamilton and Damico regard the Psalms as a book of Scripture.

When Reading the Psalms, Don’t Skip the Superscriptions Andrew Wilson Columnist; Contributor They’re part of the Bible’s original text, and frequently essential to understanding it.