His book of prophecy is divided into fifty-one chapters, and his book of lamentation into five; he is ranked second among the greater Prophets. His name means "Yah is exalted." As we celebrate the ...

Charles Taylor’s big-hearted, misshapen book on philosophy, poetry, and our never-ending quest to heal the wound of modern ...

A symbol is something which as well as being itself also stands for something else, eg the Union Jack flag is an object made of wood and cloth but it is also a symbol of Britain. Symbols can be ...

Today's Gospel turns on an irony -- it is a blind man, Bartimaeus, who becomes the first person outside of the Apostles to recognize Jesus as the Messiah. And his healing is the last miracle Jesus ...

Here, the green light is a symbol of hope. After meeting up with Daisy in chapter five, the light ceases to be the emblem it once was: the colossal significance of that light had now vanished ...

As Rabbi Zvi Ron notes in his fascinating new book “Jewish Customs ... Supplemental understandings of its symbolism swiftly followed. Since the context in Jeremiah’s prophecy was of the ...

Christ's marriage to the Church was the paradigmatic symbol in which all the other forms of union participated, in superior or inferior ways. This book grapples with questions of the impact of ...

By Wilson Wong In his latest book, the Rolling Stone writer David Browne tracks three decades of folk, blues, rock and jazz below 14th Street. By Peter Keepnews A Poem About Waiting, and Wishing ...

By Dwight Garner Three new books make the case for music as medicine. In “The Schubert Treatment,” the most lyrical of the trio, a cellist takes us bedside with the sick and the dying.

At the suggestion of a friend's daughter, he transmitted a quote from the biblical Book of Numbers ... On paper, "-" is the ...

I obtained a State Department briefing book with an astonishing number of details about ... are based on the philosophical ...

The latest from the chronicler of urban grit known for “Lush Life” and “Clockers” — as well as writing on “The Wire” TV series — is set in 2008 in East Harlem, where a five-story ...