THE RENAISSANCE FRENCH PSALTER. (THE ROMANIAN VERSIFICATION OF THE PSALMS WITH HUGUENOT MELODIES. ON THE OCCASION OF CELEBRATING THE 450th ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST FRENCH PSALTER, 1562-2012), Academy Publishing House, Bucharest, 2012 (435 pages, ISBN 978-973-27-2277-0)

Abstract

The Renaissance French Psalter published by the Romanian Academy, addresses the ecclesiastic community as well as the academic one, by restoring a Christian heritage of great cultural and spiritual value.

Celebrating 450 years since the first French Psalter (Le Psautier français) at Geneva (1562), the book represents the second Romanian version of the French Psalter, after the Psalter published in 1673 by Dosoftei, Bishop of Moldavia and it is the result of the work of 18 composers and poets and 13 scientific referents from Romania, France, Germany and USA, under the coordination of  Mircea Valeriu Diaconescu (composer, Germany), Ştefan Bratosin (Univ. Prof. Ph. D, Paul Valéry University Montpellier 3) and Iacob Coman (Reader/Associate Prof., Th. D, Pentecostal Theological Institute of Bucharest).