The Bible and Music

I’m a fairly shy person when it comes to performing, and I don’t have any strong religious affiliation. But, after this first day of class, it seems that the semester will be fairly enjoyable. First of all, music is music. It’s hard not to enjoy a classroom setting with such a leisurely topic and atmosphere. Writing blog posts about music will be much better than the in-depth math and computer classes I have this semester. Second, it certainly doesn’t seem like the religious aspect of the Bible will be all that influential in the class, but rather just the texts. I can enjoy the semester like that :).

I do remember hearing Dem Bones as a young kid, and I also remember singing it with my younger brothers when they were small. I’m sure I’ll end up singing it with my children as well. Considering one of the versions did not explicitly mention Ezekiel (as well as the version I’m used to singing), it’s interesting that it has lasted this amount of time throughout generations. The Bible certainly seems to be the most mentioned/cited in music, out of all of the religious texts. I’m interested to find out through the semester if this is because the Bible is the most familiar in the modern West, or if there is some other behind-the-scenes cause for this human infatuation.