Turning Jordan

This page will be focused on some studies of the Psalter.  I’m working through several books, as well as an in-depth study of the whole book.  I hope to post a bunch on the the structure and organization of the individual psalms within the Psalter, such as the important of the superscriptions and postscriptions.

So, I started by making some charts of all the superscriptions (s/ss) within the Psalter.  Here are the charts:

Distribution of Psalm Headings (English)
Distribution of Psalm Headings (Hebrew)
Distribution of Psalm Headings (English) based on Waltke’s thesis

For those of you interested in studying the Psalter in Hebrew, I’ve put together some Hebrew vocabulary files made with Bibleworks 7.0 that may help as a resource:

All words in alphabetical order
By Frequency – 50x+
By Frequency – 25x-49x
By Frequency – 15x-24x
By Frequency – 10x-14x
By Frequency – 8x-9x
By Frequency – 7x
By Frequency – 6x
By Frequency – 5x
By Frequency – 4x
By Frequency – 3x
By Frequency – 2x
By Frequency – 1x

Click here for a chart on the similarities between the doxologies at the end of Psalms 41, 72, 89, and 106.

Updated: 4/18/09