The Honey of Souls
is the first full-length study of the
Explanation of the Psalms
by Cassiodorus. While the
Explanation
became a seminal document for the monastic movement in the West and was eagerly read and widely quoted for centuries, it has languished in relative obscurity in the modern period. Derek Olsen explores Cassiodorus and his strategies for reading as a window into a spirituality of the psalms that defined early Western biblical interpretation.