Can the psalm found in the Sunday liturgy truly nourish our prayer? "A Short Dictionary of the Psalms" helps Christians who pray the psalms to return to the sources of these ancient inspired texts and understand them better and thus to participate more fully in this great school of prayer and the interior life that the Church has received from Israel.

The psalms have deeply influenced, and continue to influence, Jewish and Christian prayer. "A Short Dictionary of the Psalms" helps all those who are exposed to the psalms to enter more readily into their theological and spiritual world. In...