Dendrite Discovery

Spanning the Gap Between Religion and Academia

Dendrite Discovery

Spanning the Gap Between Religion and Academia

Dendrite Discovery

Spanning the Gap Between Religion and Academia

Dendrite Discovery

Spanning the Gap Between Religion and Academia

Psalms

In the course of our reading of Psalms, we came across many interesting translations and commentaries. If you have any favorites that you would like to see included, please let me know.

Psalmists & Poets
Marcia Falk
Debbie Perlman
Translators
Stephen Mitchell
Robert Alter
Commentary & Interpretation
Stephen Mitchell, A Book of Psalms: Selected and Adapted from the Hebrew. 1993

Several excerpts are available at stephenmitchellbooks.com

Another of my favorites, unfortunately not available online, is his rendering of Psalm 150.

הַלְלוּ יָהּ הַלְלוּ־אֵל בְּקָדְשׁוֹ הַלְלוּהוּ בִּרְקִיעַ עֻזּוֹ׃
הַלְלוּהוּ בִגְבוּרֹתָיו הַלְלוּהוּ כְּרֹב גֻּדְלוֹ׃
הַלְלוּהוּ בְּתֵקַע שׁוֹפָר הַלְלוּהוּ בְּנֵבֶל וְכִנּוֹר׃
הַלְלוּהוּ בְתֹף וּמָחוֹל הַלְלוּהוּ בְּמִנִּים וְעוּגָב׃
הַלְלוּהוּ בְצִלְצְלֵי־שָׁמַע הַלְלוּהוּ בְּצִלְצְלֵי תְרוּעָה׃
כֹּל הַנְּשָׁמָה תְּהַלֵּל יָהּ הַלְלוּ־יָהּ׃

Summer Evening by the Window with Psalms /
Yehuda Amichai
Translated by Robert Alter

July 28, 2008
The New Yorker online

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