Description: A cursory glance through the Psalter reveals numerous allusions to events in Israels literary history. While a range of literary and oral sources were obviously available to psalmists the relationships between these sources and the psalmists final work are more obscure. Concerning these relationships numerous questions remain unanswered: - How strictly did the psalmists replicate their sources? - What kinds of alterations did they make (additions omissions etc.)? - Did they alter th