The Bible in Music: A Dictionary of Songs, Works, and More Available to Purchase

The authors of this useful book are right to remind us that numerous works have set the Bible in a literary and cultural context but that all too few directly pick out how music and the Bible are linked. Connections are easy to trace, as John Rogerson’s essay on music in The Blackwell Companion to the Bible and Culture (Sawyer, 2006) (RR 2007/115) demonstrates, with its discussion of works by composers like Bach and Handel, Schoenberg and Vaughan Williams. It is not coincidental that this companion was edited by John Sawyer, emeritus professor of religious studies at...