The Bible in Rhyme: The Gospel of Luke

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In many Bibles a musical phrase will be written above the chapter. Example: Psalm 61 "To the chief musician upon Neginah, A psalm of David" Neginah , plural Neginoth , in the Bible, direction for the musical accompaniment of a psalm. Psalms 4, 6, 54, 55, 61, 67, The actual sheet music doesn't exist today. But one can still put music to the psalms today. The method to follow is this. The commas and periods are rest marks. Shape your melody and chords to represent the emotions given by the words.

Repeated phrases are found often in music today. They are for emphasis. Pay attention to phrases like "and all Israel cried". This is the call for more voices to join in. Psalms have been used throughout history, including in Christian usage up to today. Eskew and McElrath summarize the use of the Psalms through history this way: From one standpoint the entire history of the hymn could be delineated according to its varying relationship to the Scriptures.

Generally speaking, the line of evolution in that story, if it were retold, is from the actual singing of parts of the Bible the psalms, for example through the strict paraphrasing of extended passages and the dutiful use of biblical allusion, language and figures of speech to the free expression of scriptural thought and teaching in contemporary terms.

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Harry Eskew and Hugh T. The history of psalmody actually begins long before the Book of Psalms was ever written.

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The Israelites sang the Song of the Sea, Exodus —18, after crossing the Red Sea, and Craigie finds at least six other poetic texts embedded in the prose narrative of the Old Testament. Peter C. Craigie, Psalms , Vol. Of course, many of these songs of the Israelites have been recorded in the Book of Psalms itself.

On this point scholars are nearly unanimous. Donald P. Hustad, Jubilate! Hope, , p. Before the establishment of the Temple, King David appointed skilled singers and musicians to sing unto the Lord.

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Weiser distinguishes these same three types of expression in the book of Psalms. The ministry of prophesying coincides with Weiser's subcategory of Wisdom and Didactic Psalms. No doubt songs similar to those in the book of Psalms were in use before the canonic book was compiled.

One could assume that many of the songs sung in the Old Testament era eventually found their way into the Psalter. The same words were sung years later at the rededication of the Temple, as recorded in Ezra One may assume, then, that psalms, particularly those compiled in the canonic book, were used often by the Israelite priesthood. Many scholars conclude that instrumental music was halted by the Babylonian captivity. When the Temple was destroyed by the Babylonians, very possibly all music was banned as a sign of national mourning.

Many historians have assumed this from historical records and also from Psalm After the Jews returned from Babylon and rebuilt the Temple, they again used music in worship. In later years much of the music of the Temple, or music similar to that of the Temple, was transferred to the synagogue. So it is to this day. When the Church was born, singing to the Lord entered a new era. This section explores what place the Psalms had in the Church of the New Testament.

Even there, the primacy of the Book of Psalms is clear. Psalms One may assume from James and 1 Corinthians that the New Testament church was fond of singing, in fact, of singing psalms. Let him sing songs of praise.

Whether these are references to the actual book of Psalms or not is not important ultimately; that they are references to songs at least similar to the book of Psalms is the issue for this study. Some have felt that this was an indication that the Corinthians opened their assemblies with a psalm, since psalmon begins a list here.

Such an assumption may not be correct, but if that congregation did indeed open with a psalm, it would have been in agreement with the pattern for the synagogue service.

Werner, p. Harvard University Press, , pp. Briggs finds at least fourteen times when Jesus used the Psalms. Hymns Jesus and the apostles are recorded as singing only once, that being the hymn after the Last Supper. Certainly this is at least a part of the definition.

After the Last Supper hymn, the next clear reference to hymn singing in the New Testament is found in Acts Hymn singing is again mentioned in Hebrews Songs Revelation mentions a new song to be sung in the Great Throne Room. This verse contains the third word used to describe singing in the New Testament, the Greek word ode.

The passage does not necessarily describe what was happening in the early Church, but rather what would happen at the end of the age. Events at the end of the age do not necessarily describe the actual singing of the early Church. Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs Having made mention of those three words which describe singing in the New Testament, it is well to move on to a discussion of Ephesians and Colossians These are the most familiar and most often-discussed verses about singing in the New Testament. Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord,.

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Both Ephesians and Colossians use all three terms of psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. The word PSALMS, psallo , originally meant to pluck, as in the string of a harp, hence, to sing to the accompaniment of a harp. And then to the making of music in general. Some have claimed that when Paul referred to psalms he was referring to new Christian compositions patterned after the Old Testament book, but most scholars agree that this term probably referred to the Old Testament book of Psalms itself.

Without a doubt, the term psalms could mean the book of Psalms. It seems that the emphasis of a hymn was not on musical accompaniment, as with the term but more on praise of God. Joseph Henry Thayer, ed. Some scholars have suggested that the term could be applied to poetry in general. Their suggestion would resolve the dilemma. He says that a hymn is a song containing praise of God. If you praise God, but without song, you do not have a hymn.

If you praise anything which does not pertain to the glory of God, even if you sing it, you do not have a hymn. Hence, a hymn contains the three elements: song and praise of God [underline added]. What does Paul mean when he specifies spiritual songs? Some have, in light of I Corinthians , seen this to mean outbursts of speaking in tongues, although that view is generally discounted by scholars.

Could they be songs of the spiritual life? Could they be songs composed by spiritual men? Could they be freely composed hymns, inspired in the modern sense of being highly creative? Some have asserted that they might have been chants without words, melodies sung on just one syllable, called a melisma. The Ephesian and Colossian congregations could possibly have used some kind of hymn book.

Their being familiar with a common hymn book would explain some of the so-called hymn fragments which Paul uses elsewhere. Louis F. All three terms could as easily refer to the book of Psalms as they could to a common hymnal. Other scholars more recently have also asserted that all three terms refer to the Psalms. His claim is that psalms, hymns and spiritual songs are as much a three-in-one as the Trinity, and thus must mean the same thing: the Psalms. Others have made some convincinq arguments that all three terms refer to the Book of Psalms.

Frank Frazer points out that the command is for Christians to sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs, not to make them. Frank D. Perhaps the best argument which would allow all three terms to mean the Book of Psalms is put forth by G. But Paul and the Christians at Ephesus and Colossae used these terms as the Bible itself uses them, namely, as a title for the various Psalms in the Old Testament Psalter.

Earlier he had explained: …For the fact is that all three of these terms are used in the Bible to designate various selections contained in the Old Testament Psalter. This present study is not making some proscription to use only the Psalms in worship, as these Reformed scholars would do.

It is, however, calling the church to a more scriptural balance. If new compositions are to be written, they should reflect a similar sentiment and balance as did the Old Testament Book of Psalms itself. In the next chapter, this balance of the primacy of worship will be established, and that is the end result of all of this argument.

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