rate sounds. For the striking rhythm of the poetry of the English Bible we can find a cause in the chief principle which governed the Hebrew poetry, —the principle of parallel structure. In the Hebrew ...

The Bible teaches us, says Matthew Mullins, but its method of teaching always entails more than information and guidance. The Bible has much to say about its own purpose and authority. Among the most ...

In Bible and Poetry, Michaël Edwards focuses on those books of the Old Testament with a pronounced lyrical character, such as the Song of Songs and the Psalms, and he remarks the points where the ...

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Like many readers, I first encountered David Rosenberg in “The Book of J,” a provocative study of the passages in the Hebrew Bible that are attributed by biblical scholars to the source known as “J.” ...

The Book of Psalms presents two daunting challenges to the Bible blog. First, because it’s just a series of poems, in no particular order, there is no compelling reason to start at Psalm 1 and read on ...

A new anthology helps us see the “saints and stumblers” of Scripture with fresh eyes. During Sunday worship at my Anglican church, a lector reads aloud from the Old Testament, the Psalms, and the ...

Let the poetry do its work and make you stranger to yourself. “The Bible does not call upon our intelligence alone,” he writes, “but, like all poetry, on ­everything that we are.” Rowan Williams is ...

Caeli Faisst was an undergraduate at SUNY Fredonia in the 2010s when her fiction professor posed a question to the class: Do you hold books sacred? Of course, they said, although they didn’t offer a ...

The Book of The People: How To Read The Bible In a recent domestic scene, I declared to my children that one needed the patience of Job to put up with them. I was appalled when my lamentation was ...