CANAANITE PIPE OR FIFE 144

AN EGYPTIAN HARP 144

AN ASSYRIAN UPRIGHT HARP 144

AN ASSYRIAN HORIZONTAL HARP 144

A BABYLONIAN HARP 144

JEWISH HARPS ON COINS OF BAR COCHBA, 132-135 A.D. 144

ASSYRIAN DULCIMER 144




FOREWORD


Most histories have been histories of kings and emperors. The daily
life of the common people--their joys and sorrows, their hopes,
achievements, and ideals--has been buried in oblivion. The historical
narratives of the Bible are, indeed, to a great extent an exception to
this rule. They tell us much about the everyday life of peasants and
slaves. The Bible's chief heroes were not kings nor nobles. Its
supreme Hero was a peasant workingman. But we have not always studied
the Bible from this point of view. In this course we shall try to
reconstruct for ourselves the story of the Hebrew people as an account