Psalms Figures

Characterizing God is a hefty, controversial business, but any analysis of the Bible has to come to terms with it: God is totally epic. For crying out loud, the guy is more famous than Moses, the B...

The Israelites are a fussy bunch. On the one hand, these righteous people "speak the truth," "do not slander," "stand by their oath even to their hurt," and "do not take bribes" (15:2-5). On the ot...

Remember that book of poetry that was written about the New York vs. New Jersey coolness dispute? No? Oh, right, because no one would ever touch that with a ten-foot pole. Not so in the ancient wor...