Homework for Week 2, (Jan. 26 – Feb. 1^st)

Psalm 120  … Reflections on last week and going deeper

I don’t know if you enjoy reading Eugene Peterson’s translation, The Message, but I usually find it a refreshing perspective on the text.  We have a version which includes some margin notes he wrote along with his translation.  In it, he describes the Songs of Ascents as a songbook within a Songbook (songs within the book of Psalms or Psongs J. )  Jerusalem is considered the topological highest point of the area, so any journey to Jerusalem would be an ascent.  Three times a year the faithful were to make the journey and these were the “songs for the road”.