| Author/Contributor(s): | Mitchell, Stephen |
| Publisher: | Harper Perennial |
| Date: | 4/8/1994 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
In A Book of Psalms, Stephen Mitchell, the acclaimed author of The Gospel According to Jesus has selected and adapted the fifty greatest Psalms from the Hebrew Bible. Some of his versions are fairly close translations, but he has also paraphrased, expanded, contracted, deleted, and freely improvised on the themes of the originals.
As in his widely praised interpretation of The Book of Job, Mr. Mitchell has here recreated the dense, supple music of Hebrew verse. The result is that for the first time, the Psalms truly sing in the language of today. Stephen Mitchell was born in Brooklyn in 1943, educated at Amherst, the Sorbonne, and Yale, and de-educated through intensive Zen practice. His many books include the bestselling Tao Te Ching, Gilgamesh, and The Second Book of the Tao, as well as The Gospel According to Jesus, Bhagavad Gita, The Book of Job, and Meetings with the Archangel. Mitchell has responded to the old poems with a contemporary spirit that values peace, economic and political justice, and personal integrity ... He has so well succeeded in his restorative task that he makes our delight in praising God through the Psalms seem not dutiful but inevitable.-A.L.A. Booklist