What Did Early Christian Music Sound Like?
Unfortunately, there are no extant Christian musical compositions from the first century, but we do have a surviving Christian hymn from the 3rd century. This hymn is called the Oxyrhynchus hymn (pronounced Oxi-REEN-kus). The reason why this fragment is so important is that both the music and the text are preserved. And, thanks to the […]
Worship Verbs in the New Testament
The two primary Greek verbs used for “worship” in the New Testament are προσκυνέω (proskuneo) and λατρεύω (latreuo). προσκυνέω (proskuneo) Προσκυνέω occurs 60 times, and it generally has the idea of bowing down to pay homage. Such examples would be the Magi at the birth of Christ (Mat. 2:2, 2:8, 2:11) and the people who […]