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Leonard Bernstein’s 1965 work “Chichester Psalms” is not heard in First Congregational Church every year. Or every decade. The First Church Choir most recently sang the piece four decades ago — on Nov ...

Pamela Greenberg turned to the Book of Psalms during a dark time in her life. To help combat depression she flipped through the ancient songs in Hebrew, taking time to translate the ones that spoke ...

A Yale University expert on Oriental research reported today that another Dead Sea Scroll, dating to the First Century C.E. had successfully been unrolled in the Palestine Archeological Museum in old ...

The psalms have long been a mainstay of Christian liturgical singing. While these songs of the Hebrew Bible first expressed the relationship of Israel to the God of salvation, Christians have heard in ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. At sundown on July 31, Jews around the world will ...