In this final session of the module, Duncan takes you to what’s sometimes called the ‘hymnbook’ of the early church. He shows how carefully structured the psalter is and works through the different ‘types’ of psalms which the five books comprise: he explains the various forms of ‘parallelism’ which constitute the essence of Hebrew poetry, and shows how this informs your understanding. Psalms 1 and 2 are looked at in some detail on the basis that they provide the doorway to a proper and fruitful understanding of all the psalms which follow.