Each volume in this series pairs an experienced exegete, trained in interpretation, with a homiletician trained in preaching. The two work together to explain the essential message for the original hearers, unpack its timeless truth, and then supply a contemporary restatement with guidance on communicating it.

This first Psalms volume covers the wisdom psalms, whose themes carry on into Job, Proverbs and Ecclesiastes: God as the author of wisdom, the righteous contrasted with the wicked, and praise for his revealed law and promises. Marlowe and Savelle work out the original significance and then show where God still speaks through these psalms.