Psalms of Solomon

One of the apocryphal books, the Psalms of Solomon is a group of eighteen psalms (religious songs or poems) written in the first or second centuries BC that are not part of any current scriptural canon (they are, however, found in copies of the Peshitta and the Septuagint).^[1]

Name

The 17th of the 18 psalms is similar to Psalm 72 which has traditionally been attributed to Solomon, and hence may be the reason that the Psalms of Solomon have their name. An alternate theory is that the psalms were so highly regarded that Solomon's name was attached to them to keep them from being ignored or forgotten.^{[citation needed]}

Reception history

The Psalms of Solomon were referred to in

There exist also four Syriac manuscripts.^[2] The earliest historical evidence of "Eighteen Psalms of Solomon" is in the list at the beginning of the Codex Alexandrinus (fifth century).^[2] According to James H. Charlesworth, "it has been calculated that the Psalms of Solomon would have fit into the twelve missing pages of the Codex Sinaiticus.^[2]

Content and authorship

Politically, the Psalms of Solomon are anti-

• List of Old Testament pseudepigrapha
• Odes of Solomon

References

External links

• Charles, Robert Henry (1911). "Solomon, Psalms of". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 25 (11th ed.). pp. 365–366.
• Drum, Walter (1912). "Psalms of Solomon" . Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 14.
• Toy, Crawford Howell (1905). "Psalms of Solomon". The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 10. pp. 250–251.
• Psalms of Solomon: text and discussion
• English translation by G. Buchanan Gray (1913): at Wesley Center
• English translation by Kenneth Atkinson (2009), from the New English Translation of the Septuagint — Psalms of Salomon
• Septuagint Psalms of Solomon in Greek
• An Introduction to the Old Testament in Greek^{[permanent dead link]}, Henry Barclay Swete, Cambridge University Press, 1914, page 282
• Psalms of Solomon entry in historical sourcebook by Mahlon H. Smith