David Hebrew : דָּוִד , Standard Dawid Tiberian Dāwîḏ , Arabic : داوود or داود, Dāwūd , "beloved"), was the second king of th...

Just a reminder that the texts for our reading this fall will include Samuel I and II and the beginning of Kings from the Old Testament. An ...

JERUSALEM — A three-foot-tall tablet with 87 lines of Hebrew that scholars believe dates from the decades just before the birth of Jesus is ...

This has nothing directly to do with either the David story, or the roots of Modernism, but as a remarkable effort to represent the current...

This translation of Paradiso I is from an unpublished work in progress by Peter D'Epiro, author of S prezzatura: 50 Ways Italian Geniu...

We have moved off the mountain and for now are found here .

Given the heavily Apocalyptic burden of the late cantos of the Purgatorio, it is worth noting this amazing set of blockbook illustrations o...

A sonnet on the Purgatorio: With snow-white veil and garments as of flame, She stands before thee, who so long ago Filled thy young hea...

Shaw shares a link to this interesting look at number in the Comedy: The Divine Comedy and Kabala Dante Alighier...

A writer and a teacher of literature who happens to be a friend offered some thoughts about reading -- how it might be taught through the e...

As we find ourselves in the dark wood of the final cantos of Purgatorio , several have related the triumphal procession, the sacred army, th...

John D. Sinclair notes an underlying relation within Purgatorio 29 - 31: The twenty-ninth canto is occupied with revelation; . . . it is al...