Music in Religious Cults of the Ancient Near East

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Music in Religious Cults of the Ancient Near East is written by John Arthur Smith and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1000210324 (ISBN 10) and 9781000210323 (ISBN 13).

Music in Religious Cults of the Ancient Near East presents the first extended discussion of the relationship between music and cultic worship in ancient western Asia. The book covers ancient Israel and Judah, the Levant, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, Elam, and ancient Egypt, focusing on the period from approximately 3000 BCE to around 586 BCE. This wide-ranging book brings together insights from ancient archaeological, iconographic, written, and musical sources, as well as from modern scholarship. Through careful analysis, comparison, and evaluation of those sources, the author builds a picture of a world where religious culture was predominant and where music was intrinsic to common cultic activity.