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Book of Ruth it is different. This short book is so like the end of the Book of the Judges (ch. 17-21), that
it might very well stand between Judges and Samuel;
just as the Lamentations of Jeremiah stood after...
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It is only on liturgical grounds that they have both been placed with t...
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in connection with תורה and נביאים)
has been entitled, in the most general way, כתובים ,,
intended to mean writings,
no supplicatory address to God and have therefore not the form of prayers.
the most part are hardly hymns
the majority are elegiac or didactic;
the purpose of the hymn, the glorifying of God.
Psalms are songs for the lyre, and therefore lyric poems in the strictest sense.
sacred lyric often rises to the height of prophet vision, so
Hannah the singer of the Old Testament Magnificat, was the mother of him who anointed, as King, the sweet singer of Israel, on whose tongue was the word of the Lord.
only from the time when the Spirit of Jahve came upon him at his anointing as king of Israel, and raised him to the dignity of his calling in connection with the covenant of redemption, that he sang Psalms, which have become an integral part of the canon. They
he was the founder of the kingship of promise, a prophecy of the future Christ, and
Hitzig going somewhat deeper ascribes Ps 1-2; Psa 150:1-6 with others, and the arrangement of the whole, to Hyrcanus' son, Alexander Jannaeus.
