has been greatly changed, from a primitive northern hymn, vv. 1–2, 5–18, which I refer to as 89A, by the addition of the massive sixth-century lament, vv. 3–4, 19–51. This conclusion was already reached by Gunkel. So Wanke is right that the Korah psalms represent a theology of Zion as they were used in Jerusalem from the seventh century on. But Peters is more right in seeing that they were composed in the north in a much earlier period, and he is also right in identifying their shrine of origin as