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Chapter 2: History of Psalms StudiesDavis sees Psalms 107-109 as depicting God’s people indistress and their cries for deliverance, Psalm 110 declaring thatGod will give victory to his people, and Psalms 111–113recording praise for Yahweh who is able to deliver his peoplefrom their enemies. Therefore, according to Davis, Psalm 110provides an answer to the Israelites’ cries for deliverance and areason for God’s people to praise him.Although Aloisi feels that Davis’ treatment of Psalms 107 and 112 is a littleforced, it clear from both Davis (2000) and Aloisi (2005) that Davis did identifysignificant verbal and thematic links between Psalms 107-113, which seem tohave provided the primary basis for their sequencing.A collection of 27 essays dealing with a diverse range of aspects related toThe Book of Psalms (edited by Flint and Miller) was published in 2005 as theVetus Testamentum Supplement 99. Although its list of contributors read likea who’s who of psalms studies (Klaus Koch, Rolf Rendtorff, Adele Berlin,David Noel Freedman and David Miano, JJM Roberts, Beat Weber, NancydeClaissé-Walford, Dennis Pardee, John Kselman, Richard Clifford, MichaelBarré, Sung-Hun Lee, Craig C. Broyles, James Watts, Harry Nasuti, ClintonMcCann, Michael Goulder, Klaus Seybold, Gerald Wilson, Erich Zenger,Albert Pietersma, Moshe Bernstein, Robert Hiebert, Harry van Rooy, Craig57