Understanding the Psalms—part
4
The inspired
psalms are an interesting, exciting, and quite fascinating collection of
ancient Hebrew poetry. These Hebrew
songs are the largest and oldest complete collection of mono-theistic religious
poetry and melodies surviving in the world today. This collection of lyric poetry is studied
and respected by saints and scholars throughout the world. Even those who do not respect the Bible as
the inspired word of God, revere this book for the quality of its poetical verse.
The quality of this Hebrew
lyric poetry gives credence to the belief that there was a high level of
literary and musical development among the ancient Hebrew culture. The deciphering of the "Biblical
accents" or the te'amim by
Suzanne Haik-Vantoura has produced what she believes are the actual melodies of
the psalmody of the Bible. For those who
are interested, Chapter VIII of my book Music of the Bible treats the subject of the deciphering of the te'amim thoroughly.
Thought
for the Day
If a Christian musician really revers the Book of Psalms,
he or she should sing at least some of them.
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