The Psalms

The Book of Psalms (Hebrew תהילים, transliterated tehillìm or tehilim (Hebrew masculine plural); Greek Ψαλμοί, psalmòi; Latin Psalms) is a text contained in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible.

It is written in Hebrew and, according to the hypothesis most shared by scholars, the final editing of the book took place in Judea, perhaps at the end of the third century BC, collecting texts of various origins, composed by unknown authors along the previous centuries (the psalm considered the oldest is 104, which takes the Egyptian Hymn to the Sun of the fourteenth century BC).

It is composed of 150 chapters, each of which represents an autonomous psalm or hymn of various kinds: praise, supplication, sapiential meditation. The Book of Psalms is included among the Sapiential Books, it is also called Praise or Psalter.

(From Italian Wikipedia).