The Lord Is My Shepherd: Psalm 23, How Poets, Mystics, and Hymnodists Have Delved Its Deeper Meanings

Why has "Psalm 23" transcended its times and escaped chronological bonds to become a classic work of Western world literature? With emphasis on a clarification of its substance and its structure, this study of "Psalm 23" as a literary text begins with an introduction to the piece in English, and then focuses on the poem as it appears in different versions of Holy Scripture - the "King James Version", the "Revised English Version", the "Jerusalem Bible", the "Good News Bible", etc. The overall relationship between psalmody and poetry is examined.