In generous and flowing prose, Philip Jenkins of Baylor University offers an inviting, nontechnical reading of Psalm 91 that is best described as a biography of the psalm. Focused on its reception ...

Cast yourself down from this high place, said the devil to Jesus. Don’t you know the scripture? asked Satan. God’s angels will protect you, so that you won’t dash your foot against a stone. Satan is ...

Over the centuries, perhaps no volume of poetry has claimed the devotion of so many people across the Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and also inspired the creation of artistic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A thousand-year-old Book of Psalms has been discovered by a construction worker in a bog in Ireland. The eagle-eyed worker was using a backhoe to dig up potting soil in central Ireland last week when ...

Menachem Rosensaft, the son of survivors, challenges the comforting messages of Judaism’s best-known collection of verse. Of the 150 psalms in the book known in Hebrew as “Tehillim,” the 23rd may be ...