These 150 Hebrew poems are central to Jewish prayer and the inspiration for countless forms of creative expression in Western culture. While we know very little about the origins of most psalms, the ...

Within the forty-six books of the Old Testament, there is contained the endearing Book of Psalms. The book is really more of an anthology of prayers of God’s people that were either collected or ...

We should read it not as an assortment of poems and songs but as a single rhapsody on God’s covenant promises. Late in the fourth century, a man named Palladius of Galatia left his home (somewhere in ...

Reading through the first twenty books of the Old Testament, it is fairly easy to highlight particular themes or dominant purposes in each one which can help people understand them better. Such themes ...

The Book of Psalms is a remarkable collection of sung prayers which probe nearly every aspect of both the evil and the good that we do, and of our dependence on God for deliverance from the evil. But ...

The Prayer Book of St. Thomas More, which he had with him in the Tower of London as he awaited his execution. Credit: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University When beauty and ...

No one knows why the book of psalms is divided into these five categories. Some sources suggest the division is based on the five books of the Torah (Genesis to Deuteronomy). These categories are not ...