Word: psalter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...provocatively chatty Reflections on the Psalms (Harcourt, Brace; $3.75), the wise and witty Oxford don argues that such embarrassments should not simply be ignored. Remembering that all Holy Scripture is "written for our learning" and that "Our Lord's mind and language were clearly steeped in the Psalter," Lewis prefers to make "some use" of the curses. One of their uses, he found, is to call attention to the same hatreds in modern man's own heart-"we are, after all, blood brothers to these ferocious, self-pitying, barbaric men." Another use: they serve as a reminder that...