Contents

• List of Figures
• Biblical research
  • Biblical Exegesis
  • Traditional Judaic Bible Studies
  
  
• Musical Archeology
  • ''New Testament'' Times
  • Incantation versus Chanting
  
  
• Dead Sea Scrolls
  • The discovery
  • The importance of the Scrolls
  • Qumran-Essene Theory and the departures from it
  
  
• The texts
  • Grouping the Scrolls
  • Excavations
  
  
• The Story of the Discovery
  • The Bedouins
  • Mar Samuel
  • The photographies allows for the reading
  • Getting into the right hands
  • Historical importance of the Scrolls
  • Facts About the Dead Sea Scrols
  
  
• On Jewish Liturgical Music
• Maqams
• Cantillation Signs
  • The Purpose of Cantillation Signs
  • The syntactical function
  • Importance in the understanding
  • The phonetic function
  • The musical function
  
  
• Types of Cantillation Marks
  • Babylonian system
  • Palestinian system
  • Tiberian system
  • Differentiation in the poetic books
  
  
• Notation
• Suzanne Haik-Vantura
• The Methodology
  • The schools of interpretation of the signs
  
  
• Appendices
  • Names and Meaning of the Signs
  • Sequences
  • Groups