What better way to spend Victoria Day weekend than to page through a copy of Owen Jones' The Psalms of David , "with permission ded...

Carl R. Trueman mentions the Psalms in something he wrote a few days ago concerning Critical Race Theory (CRT): Critical Psalm Theory . I wi...

Last month a new Dutch versification of the Psalms was published: De Nieuwe Psalmberijming . As far as I know, there have been four major Du...

Setting the Psalms to verse isn't so easy either.

Here is a performance of Psalm 47 from the 16th-century Polish David's Psalter, by Jan Kochanowski and Mikołaj Gomółka. Sung by the ...

Here are the links to my posts as I have explored the reluctance of the Septuagint and related texts to use the rock metaphor for God in tra...

Wolters alerted me to this quotation from Karen H. Jobes and Moisés Silva, Invitation to the Septuagint (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2000...

I am still puzzling over the Septuagint (LXX) translators' reluctance to translate the rock metaphors from Hebrew into Greek , substitut...

First Things has published an article by Hans Boersma that we would do well to read and ponder: The Liturgical Medium is the Message . Argu...

Here is a haunting performance of Psalm 141 (LXX 140) sung in Russian from two years ago. Judging from the comments below the video, it has...

Christian Courier has posted my April column at their website: Praying the Psalms: Embracing the liturgical heritage of the global church ....

Coverdale Generations of Anglicans are familiar with the cadences of Miles Coverdale's Psalms, about which I wrote last month: My Rock a...

Psałterz Poznański made it to Polish television three years ago. Andrzej and Agata Polaszek appear on TV MAX performing and discussing their...

Our friends in Poznań, Poland, have posted another performance of Genevan Psalm 16 in their own language: Psalm 16: Chrystus zmartwychwstał!...

This past weekend I was surprised to see a package from Amazon outside our front door. I opened it and was delighted to see a gift from one ...

While the singing of metrical Psalms is often associated with the Reformed tradition, Christians in other traditions are making an effort to...

Miles Coverdale In my last post I examined all the uses in the Psalms of the metaphor rock to refer to God, comparing a standard English tr...

One of the peculiar features of the Greek Septuagint version of the Old Testament (LXX) is the translators' reluctance to use the metaph...

One of the difficulties of metrical psalmody is that, as the text becomes more literal, its expression becomes less straightforward and down...

After a dearth of psalm-singing in Protestant churches for some two centuries, more denominations than ever are producing sung psalters for ...