Goulder’s earlier contributions to the Psalms, produced by the same publisher, includes his study of the Korah psalms which he located in a northern Israelite annual festival at Dan, and his study of Psalms 51–72, attributed to David, which Goulder sees as a series of psalms reflecting specific incidents in David’s life. The present volume uses the Psalms attributed to the ‘sons of Asaph’ (Psalms 50, 73–83) as a basis for studying their tradition which Goulder locates in Bethel in the 720s B.C. during the time of the annual autumnal festival. The difficulties of applying psalms to specific events in Israelite History remains, as well as the problem of collecting and interpreting allusions to the Asaphites from a variety of biblical texts and genres.

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