The Psalms of Asaph and the Pentateuch

The Asaph psalms (50, 73-83) are a unity. They often call God ''Elohim'' and ''El'', and the people ''Joseph'', as Amos does; they appeal to Israelite history, the exodus and the covenant; they are written in the face of military catastrophe. In this suggestive and brilliant work, Goulder argues that they were composed in Bethel in the 720s for use as the psalmody for the autumn festival. This giv...