Even if these conjectures contain enough grains of truth to make a reasonable case, the Hallel Psalms give no explicit indication that they first appeared under the title Passover Praise. Were they grouped together in the Psalter especially for that purpose, or were they put to that use later? So far, nobody knows. And what the Psalter chooses not to tell us about the original setting, we probably do not need to know. It is certainly a united and coherent compilation—a deliberate grouping, not an