for example, what are called “the Hallelujah Psalms,” because they begin and end with the word “Hallelujah,” seem to have been gathered into a tiny book, probably for use in the Temple, and to have been issued in a separate form. So, again, the “Songs of Degrees” were doubtless collected into a small separate book, a book much thumbed, no doubt, in the schools attached to the Synagogues, since they seem to have been committed to memory by every Hebrew lad and man. From this book the Songs were transferred