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| May 28, 2014 at 21:58 | comment | added | Jon Hanna | @choster, I haven't come across any psalmists either, nor a regular prayer-writer in Christian contexts (in my own tradition conversely, it's so common for people to compose prayers or pieces of liturgy for a given occasion that it's rarely remarked upon). I have not though met people with several other skills. I don't recall ever meeting boat-builder, but I have definitely experienced boats. | |
| May 28, 2014 at 21:41 | comment | added | choster | I wonder if this could be a regional distinction. In my experience, a psalmist isn't someone you can run into at Mass. | |
| May 28, 2014 at 20:39 | comment | added | Jon Hanna | @choster, I've always understood the biblical psalmist (traditionally David) as both a psalmist and the Psalmist with a capital, but psalmist also applying to any who composes such, and the dictionaries seem to agree | |
| May 28, 2014 at 18:58 | comment | added | choster | If I may quibble, no one writes any new psalms in any variant of Christianity I am familiar with; a psalmist may be someone who sets a psalm to music, but mainly refers to either the historical (various unknown) or the traditional (David) authors of the Book of Psalms. A native English-speaking Catholic priest would not use it to describe himself. If he set psalms to music he would have been a hymnist; if he created psalters he would have been a scribe or a binder or another craft-related word. | |
| May 28, 2014 at 17:41 | history | edited | Peter Olson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 28, 2014 at 15:48 | history | answered | Jon Hanna | CC BY-SA 3.0 |