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Why on July 4 should we remember the psalm 'By the Rivers of Babylon'?

  • Written by David W. Stowe, Professor of English and Religious Studies, Michigan State University
imageWhat is the meaning of the 2,500-year old Hebrew psalm for oppressed groups?Gebhard Fugel [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

On the anniversary of America’s independence, the abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass made a biblical Psalm – Psalm 137 – best known for its opening line, “By the Rivers of Babylon,” a...

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