Pathways in Scripture: A Book-by-Book Guide to the Spiritual Riches of the Bible

Fr. Damasus's way of writing about the Scriptures is nothing else than the traditional monastic way of "meditation":…careful study of the literal sense, the discovery therein of a content hidden because spiritual, and the desire of accomplishing it…. Throughout this book one will find this way of reading the Bible in the light of the fathers in the liturgy, without neglecting history and all that provides a solid basis for an objective spiritual interpretation.

Fr. Damasus Winzen, O.S.B. (1901–1971), was a German biblical scholar and Benedictine monk. In 1951 he founded Mount Savior Monastery near Elmira, New York.