largely on the analysis of their forms.133 Nevertheless, Gunkel and his successors recognize that literary form may not be disassociated from literary contents, style, emotive accent, and existential situation.134 Although certain formal aspects of Hebraic psalmody resemble those of the hymns and prayers of the ancient Near East,135 intrinsic and cumulative differences should not be ignored. Form analysis is necessary to determine genres, but it is of relative importance. Moreover, only a few psalms