Little hallel

With the little Hallel or final Hallel are Jewish , the five traditional Psalms 146-150 at the end of the psalm book meant. They are therefore part of the Jewish Tanakh and therefore also of the Christian Old Testament .

The five final psalms of the Psalter form a well-planned composition. Because of the dominant root הלל ("to praise"), these psalms are referred to as Hallel ("praise") and, in distinction from the Egyptian Hallel and the Great Hallel , called the Little Hallel.

Web links

• Matthias Millard:  Hallel. In: Michaela Bauks, Klaus Koenen, Stefan Alkier (Eds.): The Scientific Biblical Lexicon on the Internet (WiBiLex), Stuttgart 2006 ff.
• https://www.bibleserver.com/LUT/Psalm146 Translation of Ps 146 (preset Luther Bible 2017)

literature

• Matthias Millard: The composition of the psalter: a formal historical approach. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1994, ISBN 3-16-146214-9 . (= FAT 9)
• Erich Zenger : Hallel. In: Lexicon for Theology and Church 4. Freiburg 1995, p. 1158f.
• Erich Zenger: The composition of the so-called Little Hallel or final Hallel Ps 146-150. In: Frank-Lothar Hossfeld, Erich Zenger: Psalms 101–150. Herder, Freiburg / Basel / Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-451-26827-4 , pp. 807-810. (= HThKAT) (excursus)