Having finally wrapped up work on some other projects, including wrapping up loose ends and what are hopefully the final revisions to those book manuscripts and chapters, I am excited to have turned my attention to really getting to work in a focused way on my open textbook (or as I prefer to call it, open text+musicbook) on the Bible and Music. I start, as the class I teach also does, with music behind and in the Bible, before focusing on reception and musical settings of biblical texts. One crucially important source of knowledge is in the form of inscriptions and coins.\u00a0A while back\u00a0Jim Davila<\/a>\u00a0drew attention to a page on a numismatics website about the depictions of lyres on coins<\/a>. Jim also shared a fascinating article on how conservative coinage imagery is, with the result that there are a lot of similarities between the appearance of ancient and modern coins<\/a>.<\/p>\n Of related musical interest:<\/p>\n Hanukkah Music in America<\/a><\/p>\n A Soundtrack of the Jewish People<\/a><\/p>\n The launch of the Lowell Milken Center for Music of the American Jewish Experience<\/a><\/p>\n A Singing Advent Calendar<\/a><\/p>\n Delvyn Case shared a recording of his setting of Psalm 57<\/a>:<\/p>\n