The Honey of Soulsis the first full-length study of the Explanation of the Psalmsby Cassiodorus. While the Explanationbecame 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.