Music in the Ancient Near East

Contents

Introduction – Heidi Köpp-Junk and Shane M. Thompson

Was the oboe an erotic instrument in ancient Egypt? – Nadja Böckler

‘Playing by Ear:’ An Exploration of Music and Sex/Gender in Ancient Israelite Culture – Theodore W. Burgh

Follow the Songbird: Music and Blindness in Ancient Babylonia – Eric J. Harvey

The Sounds of the Past: An Iron Age Bone Whistle from Tell es-Safi/Gath and Contemporaneous Aerophones – Liora Kolska Horwitz, Ron Kehati, Maria Eniukhina, Shira Albaz, Aren M. Maeir

Ancient Egyptian Musical Instruments in Texts, Two-Dimensional Depictions and Experimental Archaeology – Heidi Köpp-Junk

Music for the Gods in Ancient Egypt – Reflections on the Origins of Music in Egyptian Temples and Sanctuaries from the Earliest Evidence to the End of Dynasty 6 – Heidi Köpp-Junk

Frame Drums in the Ancient Levant: A Woman’s Instrument – Carol Meyers

‘Have You Not Taken the Drum to Shout in Rejoicing?’ Uses and Forms of Drums in Pharaonic Egypt – John Rogers

How Did Vertical Angular Harps Reach Egypt in Antiquity? – Daniel Sánchez Muñoz

The Motif of the String Player among Animals: From Kurgarru to Orpheus – Thomas Staubli

Music, Mourning, and Coping: Anat’s Grief Resolution for Aqhat – Shane M. Thompson