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A Book of Psalms: Selected and Adapted from the Hebrew By Stephen Mitchell HarperCollins, 87 pages, $17.50 Purists, beware. Stephen Mitchell’s “A Book of Psalms” is not so much a … ...
The Book of Psalms: A Translation With Commentary By Robert Alter W.W. Norton, 518 pages, $35. Robert Alter’s new edition of the Hebrew Psalms is not for everyone: It requires concentration ...
(RNS) — President Donald Trump ran on a campaign promise to 'bring back religion.' The NEH grants he canceled include several that advance understanding of Judaism and Christianity.
Penn State University Press recently announced the publication of Hebrew Psalms and the Utrecht Psalter: Veiled Origins, by Professor Pamela Berger: "In a major departure from previous scholarship, ...
Salomone Rossi, a Renaissance composer, put Hebrew psalms to music. Profeti della Quinta hopes to introduce him to audiences worldwide. ... which is very small,” he said.
A rare inscription paraphrasing part of Psalm 86 in the Greek used in the New Testament has been unearthed by a team of Hebrew University archaeologists working at the Hyrcania Fortress, a Second ...
Cottrill has written a book on the psalms, focusing on about 50 laments from among the diverse collection of 150 Hebrew psalms. Jerry Ayres / The Birmingham News "Each one is an individual ...