Bible Review

Psalms 122, 124, 131, 133.

If this is the correct meaning of Hebrew la-menatse‘ah.

It should also be pointed out that the Psalms Scroll from Qumran (11QPsa) contains selections from “Book Five.” However, this scroll may not be a canonical text but a liturgy or hymn book.

Psalm 121 has shir la-ma‘alot.

Numbers 26:10–11; 1 Chronicles 16:22. The psalms that bear their name are 42, 44–49, 84–85, 87–88.

1 Chronicles 16:4–5. The psalms that bear his name are 50 and 73–83.

See S. Buber, Midrash Tehillim, 1[2], p. 3.

See M. Haran, “The Four Blessings and Five ‘Books’ in the Book of Psalms” [Hebrew], Proceedings of the Israel Academy of Sciences, 8, 1 (1989), pp. 1–32.

Noted by H. B. Swete, Introduction to the Old Testament in Greek (Cambridge, UK: 1902), p. 254.

With Psalm 106:47–48, cf. 1 Chronicles 16:36.