Psalms
BOOK OF, a book of the Old Testament. It was the praise book or psalter of the Hebrew temple or synagogues. In the present Hebrew Bibles it is usually placed just after the Prophets at the head of the Hagiographa, and in Luke xxiv: 44, is generally supposed to stand for that division of the Old Testament books. The 150 psalms are arranged in Hebrew in five books, each terminating with a doxology, in some cases closing with "Amen and amen."
The revised version prints them separately. All but 34 psalms have titles in the Hebrew Bible; the latter were called by the rabbis orphan psalms. In the Septuagint all but two have titles.
Though not as a rule accepted as part worthy of high respect. They attribute of Scripture, they are ancient, and all book 1 to David, except Ps. i., ii., x., and xxxiii. The name of the Supreme Being used in this book is chiefly Jehovah. Book 2 assigns Psalms to David, to Korah, to Asaph, and to Solomon,