The History of the Psalms

Gunkle: Scholars are unanimous on the view that this is a much later addition to the text by the scribal community or the people putting this book together for communal use within a worship setting. Do we have any indication of any timing of when these things are happening? Gunkle: It's incredibly difficult with Psalms because they're so ambiguous and intentionally so, right? If these are prayers that are to be used by a number of people in a worship setting, you can't really get super specific. But if I give you Pearl Jam's first album, Ten, and say, tell me when this was written, you would be depending upon the lyrics of that record to find