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Other such duplicated portions of psalms are Psalm 108:2–6 = Psalm 57:8–12; Psalm 108:7–14 = Psalm 60:7–14; Psalm 71:1–3 = Psalm 31:2–4. This loss of the original form of some of the psalms is considered by the Catholic Church's Pontifical Biblical Commission (1 May 1910) to have been due to liturgical practices, neglect by copyists ...
There are 23,145 verses in the Old Testament and 7,957 verses in the New Testament. This gives a total of 31,102 verses, [29] which is an average of a little more than 26 verses per chapter and 471 verses per book. Psalm 103:1–2 being the 15,551st and 15,552nd verses is in the middle of the 31,102 verses of the Bible.
Due to the large number of Psalms scrolls found at Qumran and the references to the Psalms in other sectarian works, there is formal and functional evidence suggesting that the Psalms were viewed as scripture by the Qumran community [6] [12] and that the strong Davidic emphasis in this particular scroll correlates with the community's messianic ...
The Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, is the collection of scriptures making up the Bible used by Judaism. The same books, in a slightly different order, also make up the Protestant version of the Old Testament. The order used here follows the divisions used in Jewish Bibles. Most of the Hebrew Bible was written between the late 8th century BCE and ...
The Psalms of the two versions are numbered differently. The Vulgate follows the Septuagint numbering, while the King James Version follows the numbering of the Masoretic Text. This generally results in the Psalms of the former being one number behind the latter. See the article on Psalms for more details.
Psalms of Asaph. The Psalms of Asaph (English: / ˈeɪ.sæf / Ay-saf; [ 1 ] Hebrew: אָסָף’Āsāp̄, "Gather" [ 2 ]) are the twelve psalms numbered as 50 and 73–83 in the Masoretic Text, and as 49 and 72–82 in the Septuagint. They are located in the Book of Psalms in the Hebrew Bible (which is also called the Old Testament).
The exact distinction between the two main parts of the psalm is also controversial, as verse 23 is sometimes counted as a part of the original psalm, but sometimes as part of the later addition. The original psalm (v. 2-22/23) is thought to date from the pre-exilic period, that is, before the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem in 587 BC.
Part VI: 1401–2000 (medieval fragments psalms uncertain dating younger) Part VII: 2001–3000 (medieval small fragments psalter [to the eighth century] BCE) Part VIII: 3001–5000 (medieval manuscripts of the Greek Old Testament without the Psalms) Part IX: 5001–7000 (medieval small fragments of the Greek Old Testament without the Psalms)