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Psalms, also known by its Hebrew title תהלים and as the Psalter [7], is a book of the Bible composed in Biblical Hebrew [9]. It is an instance of a religious text and a group of literary works [11], and its abbreviated form in scholarly and liturgical contexts is Ps. [1]. The work belongs to the genre of wisdom literature [2] and takes the form of poems and hymns [5].
The book forms part of several scriptural collections, including the Ketuvim, the Tanakh, the Septuagint, the Old Testament, the Sapiential Books, and Sifre Emet [8], reflecting its central place in both Judaism and Christianity [12]. Its constituent parts belong to the class of biblical psalm [3], and the work includes among its sections Psalm 1 through Psalm 12, among others [4].
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