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Psalms and Time of CompositionB.C.E. | Period | Context | Sub-category | Psalms | 950-587 | First Temple | Davidic monarchy | Royal psalms | 2, 18, 20, 21, 45, 72, 89, 89, 132, 144 | | | Solomonic temple | Songs of Zion | 46, 48, 76, 87, 122 | | | | Liturgies | 15, 24 | | | | Borrowed Canaanite hymns | 29, 68 | | | Nation and land | Community psalms | 65, 66, 67, 118 | | | | Individual psalms | 7, 12, 23, 30, 40, 41, 51, 61, 140, 141 | | | Psalms with prophetic oracles | | 50, 75, 81, 82, 95 | 587-520 | Babylonian Exile | No monarchy | Yahweh's kingship | 47, 93-99 | | | | Creation hymns | 19A, 104 | | | No temple | Zion laments | 74, 77, 79, 137 | | | No nation | Community laments | 44, 60, 123, 126 | | | | Individual laments | 13, 17, 22, 31, 35, 42-43, 54, 55, etc. | | | Prophetic | Salvation history | 78, 105, 107 | 520-323 |
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