12.1.1 Introduction

Whereas MT-Pss (I.10.2.2) is composed of 150 psalms, several other psalms collections include extra psalms. Five of these additional psalms are widely known as the Apocryphal Psalms.¹ They are commonly numbered Psalms 151–155, following their consecutive numbering in the twelfth-century, East-Syriac manuscript S^12t4, the most important Syriac…