It was with great anticipation that I read Rabbi Hayyim Angel’s latest commentary, “Psalms: A Companion Volume” (Kodesh Press, 2022). Like so many of his other books on biblical text, Rabbi Angel’s ...
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 ...
Handwritten annotations in the Tudor king’s psalter show how he looked to scripture to justify his break from Rome and the annulment of his first marriage V.M. Braganza - Historian, Harvard University ...
NEW YORK — Nearly 80 years after Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated, Menachem Rosensaft decided it was time to confront God. And so he penned “Burning Psalms: Confronting Adonai after Auschwitz.” ...
A tiny book of psalms from 1640, believed to be the first book printed in what is now the United States, sold for just under $14.2 million on Tuesday, setting an auction record for a printed book. The ...
A small book of psalms, printed in New England not long after the voyage of the Mayflower, is expected to break the record for most expensive text ever sold at auction Published in 1640, the Bay Psalm ...
Samuel O. Campbell, 35, has had an upbringing in Jersey City that many raised in its disenfranchised areas can relate to. It’s rare to read about in the words of someone who lived it. … Even with the ...
A tiny book of psalms from 1640, believed to be the first book printed in what's now the United States, sold for just under $14.2 million US on Tuesday, setting an auction record for a printed book.