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In this highly competent analysis of the Psalms, John Day begins by introducing the most common types of Psalms. He then examines Psalms of lament, praise and thanksgiving, confidence, wisdom and torah Psalms, historical Psalms, entrance Liturgies, pilgrimage Psalms, the Autumn Festival, and the Royal Psalms. Day then discusses the composition of the Psalter, and finishes up by scrutinizing the...

celebrate Yahweh’s enthronement as king, and Zion psalms (e.g. Psalms 46; 76; 87), which glory in Mt Zion, Yahweh’s holy dwelling place in Jerusalem. Communal laments. These are psalms in which the nation laments some public disaster that has come upon it, for example the destruction of the Jerusalem temple (Psalms 74; 79) or some other disaster (e.g. Psalms 60; 80; 126). After an opening invocation of God, there is no fixed order in what follows, though the main part of the psalm tends to consist
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