The Serugin,
Te’amim, and Meturgeman in Christian Perspective-part 1
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Introduction
For the next 20 days I will be
discussing very briefly the history of the Serugin, Te’amim, and the
Meturgeman in Christian Perspective.
Western readers often see the music of the Bible through the eyes of the
Occident. Many of the terms that are
well known among Jewish authors and readers are practically unknown to
Christian readers. Although I am not an
expert by any means on the history and function of ancient Temple and Synagogue
worship, I have struggled with these concepts for over 45 years. I have been aware since I began my long
journey of the study of music in the Bible that it is almost impossible for
Christians to understand music in ancient Israel without at least some very
basic knowledge of these concepts of worship during the long period of years
that that the people of ancient Israel worshiped YHVH with their musical responses
to Him.
The music and musicing recorded in
the OT is very complicated and hard for Christians in the 21st
century to conceptualize because most of us understand it with our Western
understanding of music and musicing . As we will see in this series of posts,
there exists a plethora of written opinions about the actual process of
intoning, singing i.e. cantillating the Tanakh. It is my prayer that these
explanations given in this series will somewhat illuminate our understanding of
sacred music and musicing during Bible times.
In
each day’s discussion in this series of blog posts there will often be no
attempt to draw major conclusions. In
the interest of the daily time involvement of the reader the posts will, as
usual, often be limited to two or three paragraphs. This is going to make some
of the daily posts quite incomplete. Those who are new to my blog will need to
know that each day’s blog post will be archived so that it is easy to read or
re-read a previous post in this series. A
complete bibliography is given in this beginning blog post of the 21 part series
so the reader can identify authorship when they see abbreviations that I have
given at the end of quotes in each blog post.
Note that the internet addresses found throughout the text are not
included in the bibliography.
Bibliography
Engel,
Carl. The Music of the Most Ancient Nations. London:
The New Temple Press, C. 1929.
Gadenwitz,
Peter. The Music of Israel. New York:
W.W. Norton and Company, 1949.
Rothmuller,
Aaron. The Music of the Jews. New and Revised Edition. New York:
A.S. Barnes and Company, Inc., 1967.
Hooke, S. H. ed. Bible
in Basic English: Cambridge
University Press, 1965.
Haik-Vantoura,
Suzanne; Translated by Dennis Webber, Edited by John
Wheeler. The Music of the Bible Revealed. Berkeley: Bibal Press, 1991.
Idelsohn,
Abraham. Jewish Music in Its Historical Development. New York:
Schocken Books, 1967.
Klein,
Michael L. Michael Klein on the Targums Collected Essays
1972-2002, Studies in the Aramaic Interpretation of Scripture, Boston:
The Netherlands, Brill NV, 2011.
Nulman, Macy. Concise
Encyclopedia of Jewish Music. New
York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1975.
Roth, Cecil, ed. Encyclopedia Judaica. 16 vols. NY: The Macmillan Company,
1972.
Sachs,
Curt. The Rise of Music in the Ancient World. New York:
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1943.
Sendrey,
Alfred. Music in Ancient Israel. New York:
Philosophical Library, Inc., 1969.
Sendrey,
Alfred. Music in the Social and Religious Life of
Antiquity. Cranbury, New Jersey: Associated Presses, Inc., 1974.
Stainer,
John. The Music of the Bible. Revised Edition. New York:
Da Capo Press, 1970.
Wolf, Garen I. Music
of the Bible in Christian Perspective. Salem, Ohio: Schmul Publishing
Company, Inc., 1996.
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