Psalm 151

An additional psalm found in the Septuagint and in the Qumran Psalms Scroll — an autobiographical poem of David, describing his anointing and his victory over Goliath.|||Survives in Greek in the Septuagint, in the Syriac version, and in Hebrew at Qumran (11Q5). The Qumran version is made up of two distinct psalms (151A and 151B).|||Composed sometime after the return from exile, likely in the 3rd or 2nd century BCE.|||Deuterocanonical in the Eastern Orthodox Church. Canonical in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Read liturgically in the Coptic Orthodox Church. Not canonical in Roman Catholic or Protestant traditions.|||Shows that the boundary of the Psalter was fluid in the Second Temple period. The Hebrew version (11Q5) is one of the most important Psalms manuscripts from Qumran.|||Sanders, J. A. The Dead Sea Psalms Scroll. Cornell University Press, 1967.|||Flint, P. W. The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Book of Psalms. Brill, 1997.|||Charlesworth, J. H., ed. The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, vol. 2. Doubleday, 1985.|||Psalm 151 — Early Jewish Writings|https://www.earlyjewishwritings.com/psalm151.html|Full translation and scholarly resources.;; Psalm 151 — Wikipedia|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psalm_151|Background and scholarly discussion.|||" I was small among my brothers, and the youngest in my father's house; I tended my father's sheep." — Psalm 151:1