David is arguably the most fascinating figure of the Old Testament. He had many lives: shepherd, military hero, adviser to a king, king himself, ancestor to a nation. To mark their 35th annual ...

David: A Play with Psalms was at least partly inspired by something that happened to a friend of hers, said co-director Joy-Elizabeth Lawrence: Her friend was up front at a concert of a popular band, ...

The Qur’an states: “And We have preferred some prophets over others, and We gave (Prophet/King) David, Psalms.” (17:55) and “David! We did indeed make you a viceregent [khalîfah] on earth: so judge ...

(UNDATED) King David is mum and pointing at his tongue. He has promised to speak no evil word, writing “I will bridle my mouth, so long as the wicked are in my presence.” And “the wicked” are in very ...

There are texts written with ink — and there are texts that seem carved in light, like those ancient signs which, our sages teach, the Holy One engraved in white fire upon black fire. Tehillim — the ...

View a gallery of selected details from an anthology of 36 psalms, “I Will Wake the Dawn: Illuminated Psalms,” by Hebrew manuscript artist Debra Band (Jewish Publication Society, 2007). In her ...

We don't know what the psalms sounded like when King David played them on his lyre. But what if he had tried setting a psalm to Bluegrass? Adam Wright, musician and worship leader at Cahaba Park ...