After having read Word of Delight, I've found I'd like to explore this more in the case of Psalms and the book of Revelation.

I'd be curious to know if anyone had used something (preferably a book).

I've checked the footnotes in the Ryken book and am investigating Lewis' book on the Psalms.

I'm so glad you have time to do that, Pat! What a great desire! I have Lewis's "Reflections on the Psalms" and so far I've found it interesting (this is Lewis, after all), but surprisingly not that deep (for Lewis). However, I have dipped into and been blown away by Charles Spurgeon's two-volume commentary on the Psalms. Spurgeon is often called the "Prince of Preachers" because of his writing and speaking skills---he was a master of literary artistry. I find his commentary not only incredibly insightful, but also highly sensitive to literary beauty in the Psalms, and beautifully written in itself. I would absolutely recommend it!

The other resources that I've enjoyed are the new ESV study Bible (which includes literary information throughout, I believe from Ryken himself) and the literary ESV study Bible, which is devoted to the literary qualities of Scripture.

I know that the study Bibles aren't specific to Revelation, and unfortunately I can't recommend a good book on that alone. :-/

Hope this helps a little!
Christy

It does Christy! I'll check out the Spurgeon. Is he readable? And did you use a particular edition? Sometimes that can help a bunch.

After I looked at Lewis, I noticed Amazon paired his book by one from Dietrich Bonhoffer so I'm going to look at that too.

Is Spurgeon readable? That depends on your reading comfort level. He's GREAT when read aloud---I think anybody could enjoy him in that form. I really enjoy reading him to myself as well, but you do have to be okay with some longer sentences and older words (he was writing in the second half of the nineteenth century). But he tells stories and throws in cool images, and he has some fantastic "quotable" lines, so I wouldn't call him at all difficult to understand. Actually, his style reminds me a little bit of Jesus' parables in terms of its story-oriented approach and beautiful imagery (a la parable of the Prodigal Son and "pearl of great price"). As for edition, no, I wouldn't worry about that. He wrote in English, so it doesn't much matter what edition you get. My set of his Psalms commentary are just paperbacks that somebody gave me. :-)

Oh, Dietrich Bonhoeffer is AMAZING! I'm not surprised that he wrote about the Bible. I bet you'll really enjoy that.

Christy