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The Lord’s Song: The Basis, Function and Significance of Choral Music in Chronicles is unavailable, but you can change that!

Why do the books of Chronicles regard the performance of choral music as an integral part of the sacrificial ritual at the temple, despite the lack of sanction for it in the Pentateuch? And why do they stress that it must be synchronized with the presentation of the regular public burnt offering at the temple? These and other questions are answered in this challenging new volume. After an...

were addressed to the people and so spoke about him rather than to him.1 On the one hand, the singers announced the LORD to the people, as they proclaimed his name to them. On the other hand, they addressed the congregation in their song, as they invited them to join them in their praise of his name. The song which was sung was therefore called ‘the song of YHWH’ (2 Chron. 7:6; 29:27) or the ‘song about YHWH’ (1 Chron. 25:7), because it involved the ritual proclamation of his holy name. Whenever
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