This book contributes to one of the more fruitful areas of Old Testament studies
in recent years: the canonical study of the Psalter. It asks why the three
psalms that focus on the torah (instruction) of Yahweh (Pss 1, 19, and 119) are
associated with royal psalms and suggests that the answer lies in an editorial
attempt to draw attention to Deuteronomy's kingship law (Deut 17: 14-20). This
focus on the Pentateuch's paradigm for kingship is meant not only to shape the
psalmic presentation of the eschatological king but also to direct the reader to
a piety that every believer should emulate-the king as exemplar for