From Silence to Song: The Davidic Liturgical Revolution

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“Not worship in general, but specifically musical worship, worship in song, is the Chronicler’s central concern.” (Page 29)

^“10 Israel’s eschatology always focused on David, not Solomon, and Zion, not Moriah.” (Page 17)

“When Yahweh instituted the covenant of circumcision, Abraham had only one descendant but many servants (see Gen. 14:14). All of these servants and their sons were circumcised (Gen. 17:23), and thus became part of ‘Abraham’s seed.’ From the beginning, then, the community of the circumcised was larger than the community of blood descendants of Abraham.” (Page 47)

“, I will show that song was understood, among other things, as a new form of sacrifice, the ‘sacrifice of praise.’” (Page 56)

“David’s system of worship was a preview of the eschatological worship in the renewed Jerusalem, and with the pitching of the tent the foundation of the temple was already laid. Solomon’s job was only to act as a Joshua to David’s Moses.” (Page 53)