“One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my ...

The psalm, being a hymn psalm, has been paraphrased in many hymns, ... Psalm. In Hebrew, it constitutes the bulk of the first movement of Bernstein's Chichester Psalms.

Norman Fischer has dedicated his life to Buddhism, rising to the position of abbot at the San Francisco Zen Center. But he was born a Jew and grew up chanting the Psalms in Hebrew. Once he learned ...

From the blog of Judith Hollander at The Times of Israel ...

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 … ...

Ancient Hebrew poetry, the terms “Psalms” and “Psalter” come from Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures. A “collection of collections,” believed to have been ...

Not only did it inspire the famous abolitionist, but this 2,500-year-old Hebrew psalm has long served as an uplifting historical analogy for a variety of oppressed and subjugated groups, including ...

When he’s out of town and worships in an unfamiliar synagogue, Rabbi Capers C. Funnye Jr. tends to draw stares. An African-American Jew, Funnye wears a skullcap and reads psalms in Hebrew while ...

A LENTEN task of learning Psalm 22 in Hebrew turned into a fund-raising challenge for Anne Thompson, who underwent brain surgery a few years ago. Mrs Thompson, who is studying Hebrew at Spurgeon’s ...