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 subsequent
Babylonian Captivity of Judah; 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,
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