Psalms
After Adam.
But the exiles still had reason to weep.
At a refreshingly Christian memorial service, a secular Jew has some mixed feelings.
Lost in translation.
From a naïve confidence to an enduring hopefulness.
Scholars have deciphered three ancient psalms.
In a biblical book many of whose poems express anxiety and apprehension, Psalm 104 is a confident and joyous singalong.
Heartless psalms.
David deserves our respect not despite his sins, but because he sinned and repented.
It’s a poem, not an instruction manual.
Some ancient Jewish kvetching.
Hebrew scribes take great pains to copy faithfully. But, as a passage in Proverbs shows, once an error creeps into the chain of transmission, it can be there forever.
At Israel’s Bible Lands Museum, on display for the first time is a collection of some 100 clay tablets documenting the lives of Jews exiled. . .