Saturday, August 22, 2020

Setting ancient hymns to music?

RELIGION PROF: Israelite, Assyrian, and Babylonian Poetry (James McGrath).

As far as I know, the Canaanite and Aramaic hymns in Papyrus Amherst 63 have not yet been set to music. For more on this fascintting manuscript, see here and links.

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