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- ↑ Yehoshua Granat, Psalms Recalled: Scriptural Psalms in the Liturgical Poetry of Yoseph Ibn Abitur (Hebrew: אזכרה מזמור: מזמורי תהילים בפיוטי יוסף אבן אביתור), Jerusalem: Yad Ben-Zvi, 2021.
