Sounding Praise: Music in the Bible

Overview

In Sounding Praise, Sam T Rajkumar demonstrates how these functions persist to our own day. He makes a convincing argument for exploring the music of the Bible as a way to deepen connections to the ancient world. Most studies of music in the ancient Near East are technical and jargon-filled analyses written by and for specialists in the field. Such scholarship tends to alienate lay readers who would otherwise benefit from its insights. Here, Rajkumar has curated, distilled, and organized the best of this scholarship for popular consumption, giving us a book that is in equal parts informative and inspirational. With unusual clarity and a user-friendly approach, he guides us in listening to the Bible.