LCMS Worship Institute: S1Ep9. Digging Deeper into Book IV: A New Exodus, A New Song and the Messiah – Adam Hensley

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Come dig deeper into the design and theology of Book IV of the Psalter with our keynote speaker. Book IV’s two major sections (90–100 AND 101–106) begin with the Psalter’s only Psalm of Moses (90) and a Davidic triad of Psalms (101–103). We will explore the striking affinities between Psalms 93–100 and Moses’ Song of the Sea (EX. 15), and the 101–106 group’s shift of focus to “David,” as a Moses-like leader of the new exodus and leader of its New Song. The presentation briefly explores how these themes carry on into Book V (e.g., PSALMS 110, 145, 149).

Bio:

The Rev. Dr. Adam Hensley is associate professor of exegetical theology at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis (CSL), where he teaches Old Testament. He joined the faculty in 2023, having previously served as an assistant professor of theology at Concordia University Irvine (CUI), Irvine, Calif. (2012–2016), and lecturer in Old Testament at Australian Lutheran College (ALC) in North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, a college of the University of Divinity (2017–2022), where he also served as dean of chapel. Ordained in 2000, Dr. Hensley has also served two Lutheran parishes in Australia as a parish pastor. His first call was as an associate pastor of Hamilton Lutheran Parish in Hamilton, Victoria (2001–2006), where he also served as chaplain to Good Shepherd College Secondary Campus (2001–2005) and as aged care chaplain to Eventide Lutheran Homes in Hamilton (2006). Before joining the faculty at ALC, Dr. Hensley also served a five-month interim ministry as parish pastor at Pilgrim Lutheran Church in Magill (2016). Dr. Hensley earned his Doctor of Philosophy in Biblical Studies from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis (CSL) (2015), majoring in Old Testament and writing his dissertation on the relationship between the Davidic and pre-monarchic covenants in the Psalter. He holds a Graduate Diploma in Ministry (2000) and Bachelor of Theology (1998) from Luther Seminary (now ALC) in North Adelaide, and a Graduate Certificate in Theological Education from ALC (2018). Dr. Hensley is known internationally for his work on covenant theology in the Psalms and is currently working on a commentary on Psalms 101–150 for the Concordia Commentary Series, for which he also serves as Old Testament editor. He is the author of Covenant Relationships and the Editing of the Hebrew Psalter in The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies Series (London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2018), and has also contributed several articles on the Psalms and other topics in biblical theology for scholarly journals including Logia, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament (JSOT) and Lutheran Theological Journal. Dr. Hensley is married to Joanna. They have six children: Samuel, Mary, John, Lucy, Thomas and Hannah.

This session recording is from the 2024 LCMS Institute on Liturgy, Preaching and Church Music held July 9–12, 2024 in Seward, Neb. For more information on the Institute, please visit https://resources.lcms.org/worship-planning/2024-institute-on-liturgy-preaching-and-church-music-resources .

Morning Prayer Venite from Lutheran Service Book © 2006 Concordia Publishing House. Used by permission. Setting by Paul Soulek.

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