Archaeological Views: Performing Psalms in Biblical Times

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The Bible does not tell us much about how psalms were originally performed. Archaeology and extra-Biblical texts, however, can shed some light on the music and dance that accompanied psalms in Biblical times.

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Footnotes

1. Hershel Shanks, “The Persisting Uncertainties of Kuntillet ‘Ajrud,” BAR, 38:06.

Endnotes

1.
The BBC recorded this and another trumpet in 1939 (www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt9AyV3hnlc).

2.
See Loren R. Fisher and F. Brent Knutson, “An Enthronement Ritual at Ugarit,” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 28.3 (1969), pp. 158–160.

3.
Adapted from Richard C. Steiner and Charles F. Nims, The Aramaic Text in Demotic Script: Text, Translation, and Notes (self-published, 2017), p. 48.