The Book of Psalms commonly referred to simply as Psalms the
Psalter or "the Psalms" is the first book of the Ketuvim
("Writings") the third section of the Tanakh and a book of the
Christian Old Testament. The title is derived from the Greek
translation ψαλμοί psalmoi meaning "instrumental music" and by
extension "the words accompanying the music". The book is an
anthology of individual Hebrew psalms with 150 in the Jewish and
Western Christian tradition and more in the Eastern Christian
churches. Many are linked to the name of David but modern
scholarship rejects his authorship instead placing the composition
of the psalms to various authors writing between the 9th and 5th
centuries BC.