(Rev. 7:17) Of all the images in the Bible, the most comforting, endearing and enduring is that of Jesus the Good Shepherd. The image goes back to Psalm 23, “The Lord is my shepherd.” ...

The Lord's my shepherd, I'll not want; He makes me down to lie In pastures green; He leadeth me The quiet waters by. My soul He doth restore again, And me to walk doth make Within the paths of ...

Similarly, prints of Warner Sallman’s placid, lily-white painting The Lord Is My Shepherd still sell well on the internet. Such kitsch, Jennifer Awes Freeman notes, seems a far cry from the Babylonian ...