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 ...

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 ...

They’re part of the Bible’s original text, and frequently essential to understanding it. Some passages of Scripture get ghosted. Occasionally, you see this happen when you ask someone to read a ...

Editor’s note: This article was first published in the Aug. 2, 1997, issue of America, titled “Praying the Psalms: Some Notes.” For some years I have been keeping rather extensive reading notebooks.

The congregation that assembled Sunday morning for the Community Worship service at the Kutztown Folk Festival may not be as well versed in the Pennsylvania German language as their forebears, but in ...