<Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> The Book of Psalms (Hebrew: תְּהִלִּים ‬ or תהילים ‬, Tehillim, "praises"), commonly referred to simply as Psalms or "the Psalms", is the first book of the Ketuvim ("Writings"), the third section of the Hebrew Bible, and a book of the Christian Old Testament . The title is derived from the Greek translation, ψαλμοί psalmoi, meaning "instrumental music" and, by extension, "the words accompanying the music ." The book is an anthology of individual psalms, with 150 in the Jewish and Western Christian tradition and more in the Eastern Christian churches . Many of the psalms are linked to the name of David, but his authorship is not universally accepted by modern Bible scholars . </P> <P> The Book of Psalms is divided into five sections, each closing with a doxology (i.e., a benediction)--these divisions were probably introduced by the final editors to imitate the five-fold division of the Torah: </P>

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