On Yom Kippur, reconsidering the Book of Psalms in light of those who were murdered in the Holocaust
When—and how—did these readings become part of the traditional Jewish liturgy?
Getting lost at summer camp made me rethink what psalms mean to me
In his subtle translations of the Bible’s Wisdom Books—Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Job—Robert Alter highlights the canon’s subversive side
