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PSALMS OF SOLOMON

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 365 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PSALMS OF See also:SOLOMON  . These See also:psalms, eighteen in all, enjoyed but small See also:consideration in the See also:early See also:Christian See also:Church; for only six See also:direct references to them are found in early Christian literature, though in the Jewish Church they must have played an important role; for they were used in the See also:worship, of the See also:synagogue . They were of course not written by See also:Solomon, but were subsequently ascribed to him . The fact that they do not contain a single reference to Solomon is in favour of their having been first published anonymously .. On the other See also:hand, their author (or authors) may have placed over them the superscrip, tion " Psalms of Solomon " in See also:order to gain currency for this new collection under the shelter of a See also:great name of the past .

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