that the essence and nature of festival and dance were so intertwined that when a Jewish person spoke of a festival their first thought would be of dancing in joyful celebration. In his book Worship And Dance, J.H. Eaton says, “In many Old Testament passages alluding to cultic rejoicing but without explicit mention of dancing we can safely assume that dancing is implied.”1 Even today, in the Hebrew language, the common greeting for any of the joyous holidays is khag sameakh (חג שמח) which might be