(Psalms 1–41) We are to see Psalm 1, and probably Psalm 2 also, as the inspired introduction to the whole book. Not that that is a good word for it. ‘Introductions’, like ‘prefaces’ and ‘forewords’, are what dull dogs like me stitch on at the front end of their work (though in this instance I have tried to avoid doing so); whereas for the original compilers, the right way into such a book of songs must itself be a work of art. For his ‘multitude of Angels’, who thought