A Psalter for Prayer: Annotated Edition by David James (.ePUB)
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A Psalter for Prayer: Annotated Edition – An Adaptation of the Classic Miles Coverdale Translation by David James
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Overview: A Psalter for Prayer is the first major English edition to include all the prayers needed to read the Psalter at home according to an Orthodox tradition that reaches back to the time of the desert fathers, known popularly as the ‘cell rule’. In addition, the contents include many texts, traditionally printed in Orthodox Psalters, that are not easily found in English, such as the Rite for Singing the Twelve Psalms, directions for reading the Psalter for the Departed and much more.
This annotated edition includes footnotes in the printed form and endnotes in the digital form. These provide additional insight into the translation. A few of the notes are simple source citations. Others are rubrical or informational notes, but most are translator’s notes, intended to help the reader understand why a particular word, phrase or verse is used in this English version to translate the Septuagint Greek of Alfred Rahlfs.
This annotated edition will allow readers to not only judge for themselves the fidelity of A Psalter for Prayer to the received Greek text of the Orthodox Church and to its Latin and Church Slavonic translations, but to better understand how the Psalter as the prayer book of the Church evolved into its present form and what such a book teaches us about the centrality of the psalms in Christian prayer and how to pray them at home and in church.
The Psalms and Nine Biblical Canticles have been adapted from the classic Miles Coverdale translation of the Book of Psalms and the King James Version of the Bible. The text has been carefully edited to agree with the original Greek of the Septuagint, as well as to the Latin and Church Slavonic translations, and has been approved for use within the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia.
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