Il Salterio: una struttura teologica

First, we propose an outlook of the Psalter not in five books but in three collections: a) Jahwist (1-41); b) Elohist (42-89); c) Jahwist (90-150). In this frame, three topics appear, each of them mainly in one of the three collections: a) Messiah; b) Sion; c) Torah. Therefore a kind of progression of these subjects is readable all along the book of Psalms. Approximately, we can say like this: a) the Messiah is the man obedient to the Torah; b) Sion is the city of the Messiah, or of the messianic peace; c) the Torah is the spiritual factor that builds Jerusalem. Therefore the relationships between these three topics can be seen as the theological structure of the Psalter.