For everyone who's read the Bible and wondered what David's harp,
or Nebuchadnezzar's sackbut and cornett really were, Jeremy
Montagu, retired curator of Oxford's Bate Collection of Historical
Instruments, has composed an astoundingly thorough investigation
and explanation of the musical instruments that pepper the pages of
Western Civilization's most holy book. This is a detailed study of
all the musical instruments mentioned in the Bible, using the
resources of linguistics, organology, and ethnomusicology to
identify and describe them. Every reference to an instrument is
noted and all the misconceptions of translation are corrected. The
Bible, as we know it in English, is a translation, and the history
of biblical translations into Aramaic, Greek, Latin and other
languages is one of guesswork. The substitution of the musical
instruments from the translator's era for those of the original
author is as common as it is overlooked. Jubal did not have an
organ, nor David a harp. This book uses all the resources available
to establish what each instrument really was, what it looked like,
and how it was played and is arranged in the same order as the King
James Bible, with explanation where this differs from other
versions in English. As well as a full bibliography, there are
three indexes. The first is of Biblical Citations so that readers
may check every mention in the Bible from its chapter and verse.
The second is a quadrilingual parallel citation in Hebrew, Greek,
Latin, and English, so that each reference can be crosschecked. The
third is a general index. The four biblical languages, Hebrew,
Aramaic, Greek, and Latin, are used to the full, and the original
texts are cited frequently. There are 18 illustrations, some of
which are archeological remains, some ethnographic parallels, and
one is of the sole biblical instrument still in regular use: the
ram's horn which brought down the walls of Jericho. Musical
Instruments of the Bible is perfect for university theology and
comparative religion depa
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