Reformation
The Bay Psalm Book
In the winter of 1639 and 1640, in a wooden house not far from the Charles River at Cambridge in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, a printer named Stephen Daye pulled sheets off…
Archive
Psalms
Hebrew
The Poetic Accents
For any reader transitioning from the extensive narrative prose of Genesis or Kings to the opening folios of the Psalter in a classical Tiberian Masoretic codex, the graphic landscape of the Hebrew…
Scripture
The Psalms Scroll from Cave 11
A wooden reading lectern is set inside a limestone cave. An oil lamp flickers on a low stone ledge, throwing a circle of warm light across an open parchment. Above the lectern,…
Scholars
William Wickes and the Hebrew Accents
In the spring of 1881, at the Clarendon Press in Oxford, a small octavo volume appeared under the title A Treatise on the Accentuation of the Three So-called Poetical Books of the…