The Book of
Psalms—part 3
Although
it is sometimes astonishingly purported that David penned the entire Book of
Psalms, it is known that he did not since the inscriptions of the psalms, which
are a part of the original compositions, name several other authors. Also, many of the psalms were written after
David's death. This is substantiated by
the fact that they make reference to happenings that occurred after the
psalmist David’s death.
It
is important that the church musician realizes the seriousness of regarding the
inscriptions as either spurious or as later additions of the redactors of
Scripture. There is no conclusive
evidence that any of the inscriptions were added at a later date. On the contrary, they contain the te'amim and
would have been chanted just like any other part of the Psalm text.
Thought for
the Day
Recent scholarship has brought to light that
the psalm texts and their melodies were most likely written as a unit (a Melos) at the same time.
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