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Psalms I 1–50: Introduction, Translation, and Notes is unavailable, but you can change that!

Psalms I: 1–50 is the first of a 3-volume commentary on the biblical book of Psalms. It offers a unique, lively translation of the most beloved collection of poetry in Judeo-Christian sacred Scriptures. Based on his linguistic analysis of both biblical and extra-biblical texts, Mitchell Dahood, S.J., interprets this Hebrew poetry in light of rich linguistic and cultural evidence. Dahood’s...

clearest evidence comes from 1QS 5:7; 6:3, etc., where ʿṣt hyḥd means “the council of the community”; see P. Wernberg-Møller, The Manual of Discipline. Translated and Annotated with an Introduction (Leiden, 1957), p. 58; idem, JSS 7 (1962), 127. In Ps 14:6 ʿaṣat ʿānī, “the council of the poor,” is associated with dōr ṣaddīq, “the assembly of the just,” while Ps 73:24, baʿaṣātekā tanḥēnī weʾaḥar kābōd tiqqāḥēnī means, “Into your council will you lead me and with glory will
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