Abstract
Abstract Psalms scholars from the last century have grappled with the question of whether “Wisdom psalms” exist as a distinctive type of psalms, and if so, what criteria should be used to define them. This essay offers an overview of various answers to these questions by drawing on form-critical observations on Wisdom psalms as well as the insights from those who cultivate the “shape and shaping” discussions of the Hebrew Psalter. In addition to these traditional studies, recent works suggest more flexible or modified concepts of genre as ways to identify Wisdom psalms and correlate wisdom with torah and cult. Varying understandings of wisdom in Psalms highlight that Psalms bear didactic elements both within the individual psalms and in the Psalter as a whole.
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