which has attracted widespread and persistent scholarly attention, that these representative psalms are best understood in a single liturgical setting that dominated Israel’s life. Mowinckel proposed that many of the psalms reflect the annual enthronement festival, enacted dramatically in the Jerusalem temple at New Year’s time. In that festival Yahweh, the God of Israel, is dramatically and liturgically reenthroned for the new year, which is the renewal of creation and the guarantee of well-being.