Word: shepherd
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...your story on the Book of Common Prayer [Dec. 31], you credit modern scholars with "drab, bureaucratic writing" that renders the 23rd Psalm: "The Lord is my shepherd: therefore can I lack nothing." The "blame" lies not with T. S. Eliot et al. but with Bishop Miles Coverdale, who wrote the psalm that way in his "Great Bible" of 1539. When Archbishop Cranmer drafted the first Prayer Book in 1549, he used Coverdale's version of the Psalter; that version is still used in British and American Prayer Books. The King James Bible, of course, was not issued until...
...modernization of the King James translation of the Psalms prepared by a team of Anglican scholars (among them: T. S. Eliot), it suffers from the same kind of drab, bureaucratic writing that mars the New English Bible. In the 23rd Psalm, for example, "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want" now reads, "The lord is my shepherd: therefore can I lack nothing...
...Shepherd's Cap Is Not a Yarmulka...
...describe my novel, The Stronghold, as "mawkishly pro-Semitic" [Oct. 8]. I have heard many indignant comments from people who, as I did, found your review antiSemitic, particularly when combined with the photo you used. The skullcap in the picture is not a yarmulka; it is a Yugoslav shepherd...
...notion that a shepherd of souls should wear a workman's coveralls first got important attention one evening in 1943, when Paris' Emmanuel Cardinal Suhard, who died in 1949, picked up a book written by two of his abbes and sat up the entire night reading it. Authors Henri Godin and Yvan Daniel contended that the French working class, to a large extent seduced by Marxist ideology, regarded the church as reactionary and the Christian faith as irrelevant. The authors argued that priests should go to work in factories and live among workers' families while preaching...