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According to Hassell Bullock, “No collection of poems has ever exercised as much influence on the Western world as the Book of Psalms.” The attraction for Jews, Christians, and others is surely the personal element that pervades these poems, which describe the human situation in all its complexity. Though the Psalms are perhaps the most familiar portion of the Hebrew Bible, they are also among...

Sigmund Mowinckel believed that 140 out of the 150 psalms were written for cultic purposes or worship in the temple.1 The other ten he called “learned psalmography,” which originated in the circle of the sages. Five wisdom psalms (1, 37, 49, 112, 127) fall among his non-cultic psalms. While we may not accept Mowinckel’s basic hypothesis, that most of the psalms were written for use in temple worship, he nevertheless recognized the presence of wisdom psalms
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