Purists, beware. Stephen Mitchell’s “A Book of Psalms” is not so much a translation of the sacred poem-prayers as it is a believer’s reinterpretation. “My primary allegiance in these psalms,” Mitchell ...

Recently, scholars have argued that oral poetry helped lay the groundwork for the development of rhetorical theory and practice in archaic Greece. I propose that oral poetry played a similar role in ...

Max Mazin, president of the Madrid Jewish Community, preached a sermon here last night from the lectern in a Catholic church, after a Jewish cantor and a priest had alternated in intoning verses from ...