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The article “10 Things You Should Know about the Psalms” clarifies that “the Hebrew Bible provides no title to the book of Psalms,” though “the title of the book in Rabbinic and subsequent Hebrew literature is ‘Book of Praises’ (tehillim).” “The book of the Psalms is a universal favorite”; indeed, “From Jesus to us the Psalter has been the treasure of God’s people everywhere.” “Psalms are poetry, and they must be read as such,” recognizing their “brief and compact” lines and “variety of recognizable forms.” Crucially, “The superscripts are part of the psalms,” with “manuscript evidence unanimously point[ing] to them as original.” The Psalter has “a liturgical setting,” originally used as a “hymnbook” in the temple. “The Psalter consists of five ‘books’,” and “the placement and arrangement of the individual psalms is not haphazard.” Finally, “The Psalms focus on the king,” being a “royal hymnbook,” and ultimately, “The Psalms are about Jesus,” as “we have it on Jesus’s authority.”