ELLEN F. DAVIS is Associate Professor of Bible and Practical Theology at Duke Divinity School. She has previously taught at Union Seminary, Yale Divinity School, and the Virginia Theological Seminary. Her other books include a theological commentary on Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Songs, and Imagination Shaped: Old Testament Preaching in the Anglican Tradition.

• Part 1 IntroductionPart 2 Pain and Praise: The Psalms as Common PrayerChapter 3 Improving Our Aim: Praying the PsalmsChapter 4 “With My Tears I Melt My Mattress”: The Psalms of LamentChapter 5 “But Surely Not Those!”: The Cursing PsalmsChapter 6 “Lamenting into Dancing”: The Psalms of PraisePart 7 The Cost of LoveChapter 8 “I've Got to Turn Aside”: The Burning BushChapter 9 “Take Your Son”: The Binding of IsaacChapter 10 “The One Whom My Soul Loves”: The Song of SongsPart 11 The Art of Living WellChapter 12 Wise Ignorance: The Book of ProverbsChapter 13 Simple Gifts: The Book of EcclesiastesChapter 14 The Sufferer's Wisdom: The Book of JobPart 15 Habits of the HeartChapter 16 Desirable Discipline: Proverbs 8Chapter 17 A Fool for Love: Exodus 33Chapter 18 “Like Grass I'm Dried Up”: Psalm 102Chapter 19 Voluntary Heartbreak: Psalm 51Chapter 20 Serving in the Shadows: Isaiah 49Part 21 Torah of the EarthChapter 22 “Good-Faith Springs Up from the Earth”: An Essay in Biblical EcologyChapter 23 Greed and Prophecy: Numbers 11

Ellen Davis continues the core task of biblical exposition for the sake of the church. . . . Through it all Ellen Davis utilizes her considerable gifts of sensitivity to the text, attentiveness to the spirit at work in the text, and care for the church that it may grow closer to the God given in the text. Of special interest to me was her fresh reading of the Song of Solomon, which offers ‘the ecstatic aspect of the love that is the main subject of the whole Bible.' Readers will dip in at any point in this book and be invited to thinking and praying again and obeying differently and freely.

ELLEN F. DAVIS is Associate Professor of Bible and Practical Theology at Duke Divinity School. She has previously taught at Union Seminary, Yale Divinity School, and the Virginia Theological Seminary. Her other books include a theological commentary on Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Songs, and Imagination Shaped: Old Testament Preaching in the Anglican Tradition.

• Part 1 IntroductionPart 2 Pain and Praise: The Psalms as Common PrayerChapter 3 Improving Our Aim: Praying the PsalmsChapter 4 “With My Tears I Melt My Mattress”: The Psalms of LamentChapter 5 “But Surely Not Those!”: The Cursing PsalmsChapter 6 “Lamenting into Dancing”: The Psalms of PraisePart 7 The Cost of LoveChapter 8 “I've Got to Turn Aside”: The Burning BushChapter 9 “Take Your Son”: The Binding of IsaacChapter 10 “The One Whom My Soul Loves”: The Song of SongsPart 11 The Art of Living WellChapter 12 Wise Ignorance: The Book of ProverbsChapter 13 Simple Gifts: The Book of EcclesiastesChapter 14 The Sufferer's Wisdom: The Book of JobPart 15 Habits of the HeartChapter 16 Desirable Discipline: Proverbs 8Chapter 17 A Fool for Love: Exodus 33Chapter 18 “Like Grass I'm Dried Up”: Psalm 102Chapter 19 Voluntary Heartbreak: Psalm 51Chapter 20 Serving in the Shadows: Isaiah 49Part 21 Torah of the EarthChapter 22 “Good-Faith Springs Up from the Earth”: An Essay in Biblical EcologyChapter 23 Greed and Prophecy: Numbers 11

Ellen Davis continues the core task of biblical exposition for the sake of the church. . . . Through it all Ellen Davis utilizes her considerable gifts of sensitivity to the text, attentiveness to the spirit at work in the text, and care for the church that it may grow closer to the God given in the text. Of special interest to me was her fresh reading of the Song of Solomon, which offers ‘the ecstatic aspect of the love that is the main subject of the whole Bible.' Readers will dip in at any point in this book and be invited to thinking and praying again and obeying differently and freely.

ELLEN F. DAVIS is Associate Professor of Bible and Practical Theology at Duke Divinity School. She has previously taught at Union Seminary, Yale Divinity School, and the Virginia Theological Seminary. Her other books include a theological commentary on Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Songs, and Imagination Shaped: Old Testament Preaching in the Anglican Tradition.

• Part 1 IntroductionPart 2 Pain and Praise: The Psalms as Common PrayerChapter 3 Improving Our Aim: Praying the PsalmsChapter 4 “With My Tears I Melt My Mattress”: The Psalms of LamentChapter 5 “But Surely Not Those!”: The Cursing PsalmsChapter 6 “Lamenting into Dancing”: The Psalms of PraisePart 7 The Cost of LoveChapter 8 “I've Got to Turn Aside”: The Burning BushChapter 9 “Take Your Son”: The Binding of IsaacChapter 10 “The One Whom My Soul Loves”: The Song of SongsPart 11 The Art of Living WellChapter 12 Wise Ignorance: The Book of ProverbsChapter 13 Simple Gifts: The Book of EcclesiastesChapter 14 The Sufferer's Wisdom: The Book of JobPart 15 Habits of the HeartChapter 16 Desirable Discipline: Proverbs 8Chapter 17 A Fool for Love: Exodus 33Chapter 18 “Like Grass I'm Dried Up”: Psalm 102Chapter 19 Voluntary Heartbreak: Psalm 51Chapter 20 Serving in the Shadows: Isaiah 49Part 21 Torah of the EarthChapter 22 “Good-Faith Springs Up from the Earth”: An Essay in Biblical EcologyChapter 23 Greed and Prophecy: Numbers 11

Ellen Davis continues the core task of biblical exposition for the sake of the church. . . . Through it all Ellen Davis utilizes her considerable gifts of sensitivity to the text, attentiveness to the spirit at work in the text, and care for the church that it may grow closer to the God given in the text. Of special interest to me was her fresh reading of the Song of Solomon, which offers ‘the ecstatic aspect of the love that is the main subject of the whole Bible.' Readers will dip in at any point in this book and be invited to thinking and praying again and obeying differently and freely.