Bible crossword 8: Psalms, Song of Songs and Lamentations
Crossword puzzle for chapter 12, "Songs of the Community" in Discovering the Bible by Alex Varughese
Challenge: Can you solve this puzzle even if you do not have the book by Varughese?
ACROSS
- 3 Who, rather than humanity, is at the center of the Psalms
- 7 A book written on the occasion of the fall of Jerusalem and the Babylonian Captivity of Judah that followed. The book (which tradition says was authored by Jeremiah) says sin
was the cause of Jerusalem's destruction and is a plea for God's mercy
- 8 The number of sections or "books" of the Biblical Psalms
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- 1 Analysis of literary works according to structure
- 2 A book that celebrates human sexuality as a part of the love and affection shared
by a married couple living out God's design
- 4 A basic building block of Hebrew poetry which refers to the relationship
between two or more lines of verse
- 5 The Hebrew Bible's songbook that gives us the language with which to give
praise to God and to pray to Him
- 6 A type of Psalm that is a cry to God for help
This crossword puzzle was created for use in Introduction to Biblical Literature.
Words and clues come from the textbook Discovering the Bible: Story and Faith of the
Biblical Communities edited by Alex Varughese and published by Beacon Hill Press of
Kansas City, now called The Foundry.
-- Howard Culbertson, hculbert@snu.edu
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