Cambridge Liturgical Psalter

Andrew Macintosh is a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He was Dean of Chapel from 1979 until retirement in 2002. An ordained priest of the Church of England, he lectured on Hebrew language and texts, and was secretary of the translation panel which produced The Cambridge Liturgical Psalter. John Emerton (1928-2015) was Emeritus Professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of St John's College. His scholarship focussed on Hebrew and the Old Testament, on which he lectured and wrote extensively. He was chairman of the translation panel.David L. Frost was Professor of English at the University of Newcastle, Australia, and is a former Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He served for a time as a member of the Church of England Liturgical Commission. Sebastian P. Brock now retired, was Professor of Aramaic and Syriac Studies at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Wolfson College. William Horbury was Professor of Jewish and Early Christian Studies at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College. He is an ordained priest of the Church of England.John F. McHugh (1927-2006) was a Lecturer in Theology at the University of Durham, and later Dean of the Department of Theology, from 1980-1982. He was an ordained priest of the Roman Catholic Church.A.G. Maclead (1911-1984) was Principal of Westminster College, Cambridge from 1963-79, and formerly Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of England. Ernest W. Nicholson (1938-2013) was Oriel Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture at the University of Oxford and the Provost of Oriel College, from 1990 to 2003. John G. Snaith (1932-2018) was a University Lecturer in Hebrew and Aramaic at Cambridge University, and a member of the Faith and Order Committee of the Methodist Church.

In renderings of the Psalter for liturgical use, there is a delicate balance to be struck between the long-loved familiarity of the traditional version and modern scholarly accuracy. The Cambridge Liturgical Psalter has proved itself to have got that balance just right. It was translated by a panel of some of England's leading Hebrew scholars of the day while at the same time relying on an expert in English for the final phrasing. It deserves its place as the premier resource for church use worldwide.

• The TranslatorsIntroduction to the New EditionIntroductionThe Psalms