Transcription of Notes on Psalms
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Notes on Psalms 2 0 1 9 E d i t i o n Dr. Thomas L. Constable TITLE. The title of this book in the Hebrew Bible is Tehillim, which means "praise songs." The title adopted by the Septuagint translators for their Greek version was Psalmoi meaning "songs to the accompaniment of a stringed instrument." This Greek word translates the Hebrew word mizmor that occurs in the titles of 57 of the Psalms . In time, the Greek word psalmoi came to mean "songs of praise" without reference to stringed accompaniment. The English translators transliterated the Greek title, resulting in the title " Psalms " in English Bibles. WRITERS. The texts of the individual Psalms do not usually indicate who wrote them.
1C. Hassell Bullock, Encountering the Book of Psalms, p. 58. See also Arno C. Gaebelein, The Annotated Bible, 2:1:215-17. 2H. C. Leupold, Exposition of the Psalms, p. 15. 3For a survey of approaches to the Psalter that view it holistically, see S. Jonathan Murphy, "Is the Psalter a Book with a Single Message?" Bibliotheca Sacra 165:659 (July ...
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