important than the fact that here at last the momentous Sinai tradition is organically interwoven with the accepted form of the redemption-story. But with this stage we have reached the point at which the genre falls apart, for the historical conspectus now includes the creation, the patriarchal history, Egypt, the exodus, Sinai, the desert wanderings, the settlement in Canaan, the time of the Judges and the monarchy right down to post-exilic times. Similarly in Ps. 106—a psalm whose historical perspective