Walter Brueggemann is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary. An ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, he is the author of dozens of books, including Sabbath as Resistance: Saying No to the Culture of Now, Interrupting Silence: God's Command to Speak Out, and Truth and Hope: Essays for a Perilous Age.

1. Introduction to the Book of Psalms

2. The Counter-World of the Psalms

3. Canaanite Tradition and Israel's Imagination

4. Doxological Abandonment

5. The Enthronement Psalms

6. The Creator Toys with Monster Chaos (Psalm 104)

7. On Jerusalem, Secure and Sad

8. Cries that Seek God's Engagement

9. The Rhetoric of Violence

10. Psalms 22-23 in the Life of the Church

11. From Guilt to Joy (Psalm 51)

12. The Wise, Reliable Ordering of Creation

13. Wisdom Psalms

14. From Commodity to Communion (Psalm 73)

15. Israel's Powerful Remembering

16. The Wonder of Thanks, Specific and Material