The Psalms - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1573226475 ISBN 13: 9781573226479

Publisher: Riverhead Books, 1997

Synopsis

An outstanding new edition containing the complete text of the biblical Book of Psalms, a collection of songs of praise, comfort, and triumph, is accompanied by incisive commentary by the author of the best-selling The Cloister Walk. Original.

About this title

About the Author:

Kathleen Norris is the award-winning, bestselling author of Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith; The Cloister Walk; and Dakota: A Spiritual Geography. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, in various anthologies, and in her own three volumes of poetry. She divides her time between South Dakota and Hawaii.

From Library Journal:

Prayed for thousands of years, the Psalms address human pain, anger, confession, thanksgiving, and more. This commentary by poet/essayist Norris (The Cloister Walk, LJ 3/15/96) is not the usual psalm-by-psalm, verse-by-verse historical, linguistic, and theological exposition but instead a lengthy introduction first to the Psalms themselves and then to the King James Version (KJV) of them. Norris points out that the Psalms are an excellent introduction to the Bible because of their many themes (e.g., Exodus, the giving of the Law, the outcry against injustice), and she argues for the KJV because its English best reflects the original Hebrew and its language is unforgettable. The Psalms are printed with ample space between verses, calling for meditative reading. A welcome addition to religion and spirituality collections.?John Moryl, Yeshiva Univ. Libs., New York
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About this edition

• Publisher: Riverhead Books
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1573226475
• ISBN 13: 9781573226479
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 404
• Editor: Kathleen Norris