02_Booij_351_351_374 30/10/15 13:01 Pagina 368 368 THIJS BOOIJ 368 However, there is more to be said. As mentioned earlier, terms denoting thankful praise may be used side by side with those denoting hymnic praise. Actually, in the community’s praise, the textual types themselves often go together 71. Psalm 65 expresses thankfulness in vv. 2-4; the vows mentioned there should be paid for benefactions showing YHWH’s readiness to forgive (v. 4; cf. 1 Kgs 8,38-39). Verses 7-9, however, praise his greatness. In vv. 9-12 of Psalm 66, also, thankfulness is expressed: the Israelites, after going “through fire and through water”, have now been “brought out to saturation” 72. Calling the earth to jubilation (vv. 1-4), and looking back on the crossing of the sea (vv. 5-7) 73, the psalm employs hymnic language. Psalm 98 is related to Deutero-Isaiah by its phraseology 74. Being inspired, apparently, by Israel’s recovery, the psalm gives utterance to gratitude. By its calls to universal jubilation (vv. 4-8) and its silence about former affliction, it is a hymn nevertheless. Psalm 117 is a similar case 75. Psalm 107 calls different categories of people to thankful praise: first, all those whom YHWH “gathered in from the lands” (v. 3), and then groups of people who were delivered from particular kinds of personal affliction. As calls to praise can be considered part of the praise itself, the psalm may be called a communal song of thanksgiving. However, its final stanza (vv. 33-43), glorifying YHWH as the one who controls the destinies of men, is a piece of hymnic praise. Psalm 147 thankfully praises YHWH for his acts in Israel’s recent past, but also honours him for his power and goodness in creation. So we see that, measured by Gunkel’s second genre characteristic, communal songs of thanksgiving do not constitute a clear-cut literary type. 2. Psalms expressing the community’s thankfulness 76 are rarely related to a specific situation in life by their interpreters. Sometimes 71 Cf. GUNKEL, Einleitung, 64. 72 V. 12: hywrl wnaycwtw; cf. acy hif‘il in Deut 26,8 -9; Jer 32,21-22; Ezek 34,13-14; Ps 68,7. No emendation is needed. 73 In v. 6 rhn also refers to it, making a pair of words with ~y (cf. Ps 93,3- 4; Jonah 2,4; Isa 44,27). 74 Cf. v. 1a with Isa 42,10a; vv. 1b.2b with Isa 52,10a; v. 3b with Isa 52,10b; v. 4 with Isa 44,23a; 52,9a. 75 For the dating see below, section VII. 76 Some regard Psalms 65 and 67 as prayers for rain. Thus DAHOOD, Psalms II, 109, 126-127, reading in Ps 65,11 hwr and txn as imperatives, and the perfect forms in Ps 65,10.12.14; 67,7 as precatives; see also M.E. TATE,