Hodayot

Hodayot (Thanksgiving Hymns)

Anonymous / tradition (Qumran sectarian community; some hymns possibly composed by the Teacher of Righteousness) · c. 100-50 BC · Qumran (Israel) · poetry

A collection of first-person thanksgiving psalms modeled on the biblical Psalter, some voicing a speaker's sense of persecution and unique chosen status in language scholars have long debated attributing to the sect's own founding Teacher.