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Music in Ancient Israel/Palestine: Archaeological, Written, and Comparative Sources. By JOACHIM BRAUN. Translated by Douglas W. Stott. The Bible in its World. Grand Rapids, Mich.: WM. B. EERDMANS PUBLISHING Co., 2002. Pp. xxxvi + 368, illustrations. $30.00, £21.95.
As Braun tells us in his preface, this English translation of the 1999 publication of his Die Musikkultur Altisraels/Palastinas (see the review in JAOS 122.3) "is a revised, updated, and enlarged version" of the original German publication. For those who prefer English for their reading pleasure, this excellent translation provides all the comprehensiveness of the original, with the added benefit of a somewhat simplified format with respect to the placement of illustrations together with less complex sub-chapter headings that refer to the illustrations.
Tables 1 and 2 are printed larger and are easier to...