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Anthems for a Dying Lamb: How Six Psalms (113–118) Became a Songbook for the Last Supper and the Age to Come is unavailable, but you can change that!

Anthems for a Dying Lamb offers an in-depth exposition of Psalms 113–118. Often called the Hallel, these psalms were part of the Passover seder, which directed proceedings during the Passover meal. That’s one reason the Hallel became known as the ‘hymn’ that Jesus sang with his disciples at the Last Supper, and why it is often part of communion services when the church celebrates the Lord’s...

Angers, 1556. Jean Rabec lost his tongue—physically and irrecoverably. This loss he suffered, not through carelessness or disease, but at the hand of Roman Catholic bishops, hellbent on stopping him singing. Not that sixteenth century bishops enacted brutal punishments on anyone who sang off-key. Their problem with Rabec went beyond his choral capabilities to matters more spiritual, specifically his Huguenot convictions, for which he would shortly burn at the stake.
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