All journal articles and book chapters are peer-reviewed except the articles in Norwegian published in the periodical
Norsk kirkemusikk [Norwegian Church Music]
2021 (forthcoming)
BOOK: Music in Religious Cults of the Ancient Near East (London, UK, and New York, NY: Routledge / Taylor & Francis).
2020
ARTICLE IN A REFERENCE WORK: ‘Music’, in The T&T Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism , 2 Volumes (London, UK: Bloomsbury T&T Clark), Volume 2, pp. 526–27.
2019
BLOG POST: ‘A review of Uri Gabbay, “The ancient Mesopotamian sistrum and its references in cuneiform literature: The identification of the shem and the meze”’. Blogger: John Arthur Smith’s blog. Online at: https://jasblogg.blogspot.com/
2017
‘Bibelens musikalske verden, tillegg: Instrumenter: Analyser og drøftinger’ [‘The Musical World of the Bible, Supplement: Instruments: Analyses and Discussion’], Norsk kirkemusikk 2017/6.
2017
‘Bibelens musikalske verden, tillegg: Instrumenter’ [‘The Musical World of the Bible, Supplement: Instruments’], Norsk kirkemusikk 2017/5.
2017
‘Bibelens musikalske verden: Sang’ [‘The Musical World of the Bible: Song’], Norsk kirkemusikk 2017/3.
2017 (October)
ARTICLE IN A REFERENCE WORK: ‘Music’, in Dictionary of the Bible and Ancient Media (London, UK: Bloomsbury T&T Clark), pp. 234–8.
2017 (September)
BOOK CHAPTER: ‘Music’ [Chapter 36], in Philip F. Esler, ed., The Early Christian World, Second Edition (Abingdon, UK: Taylor & Francis / Routledge), pp. 745–61.
2017
‘Bibelens musikalske verden: Musikkens lydbilde’ [‘The Musical World of the Bible: The Idiom of the Music’], Norsk kirkemusikk 2017/2.
2017
‘Bibelens musikalske verden: Den bibelske ideen om musikk’ [‘The Musical World of the Bible: The Concept of “Music”’], Norsk kirkemusikk 2017/1.
2016
BOOK: Paperback reissue by Routledge (August) of my book Music in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011).
2012
PART ARTICLE IN A REFERENCE WORK: ‘Psalm §I: Biblical and Early Christian Period’, in Grove Music Online [an updated version of the entry for 2006 (see below)].
2011
BOOK: Music in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011). Visit: http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409409076 for details.
2010
CHAPTER IN A FESTSCHRIFT: ‘Three Anglican Church Historians on Liturgy and Psalmody in the Ancient Synagogue and the Early Church’, in Emma Hornby and David Maw, eds, Essays on the History of English Music in Honour of John Caldwell: Sources, Style, Performance, Historiography (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2010), pp. 298–310.
2006
PART ARTICLE IN A REFERENCE WORK: ‘Psalm §I: Biblical and Early Christian Period’, in Grove Music Online, ed. Laura Macy (New York: Oxford University Press) [an updated version of the entry in The New Grove for 2001 (see below)].
2004
REVIEW OF: Joachim Braun, Music in Ancient Israel/Palestine: Archaeological, Written, and Comparative Sources, trans. Douglas W. Stott, ‘The Bible in its World’ (Grand Rapids, MI, and Cambridge, UK: Eerdmans, 2002).
REVIEWED IN: Music & Letters 85/1 (2004), pp. 95–9 [this is an Oxford University Press journal]
2003
‘The Ancient Synagogue and its Music: A Reconsideration in the Light of Ideas Presented by Theodor Karp’, Rivista internazionale di musica sacra 24/2 (2003), pp. 17–38.
2001
PART ARTICLE IN A REFERENCE WORK: ‘Psalm’, Part 1, in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edn (29 vols.), ed. Stanley Sadie (London: Macmillan, 2001), vol. 20, pp. 449–51.
1998
‘Musical Aspects of Old Testament Canticles in their Biblical Setting’, Early Music History 17 (1998), pp. 221–64 [this is a Cambridge University Press journal]
1996
‘Concordances for Singing-Terms in the Septuagint and the Greek New Testament’, Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle 28 (1995 [1996]), pp. 1–19.
1995
OPEN CORRESPONDENCE between David Halperin and me concerning my attitude to the Greek pseudepigraph The Testament of Job: in Music & Letters 76/3 (1995), pp. 480–81 [this is an Oxford University Press journal]
1994
‘First-Century Christian Singing and its Relationship to Contemporary Jewish Religious Song’, Music & Letters 75/1 (1994), pp. 1–15 [this is an Oxford University Press journal]
1990
‘Which Psalms Were Sung in the Temple?’, Music & Letters 71/2 (1990), pp. 167–86 [this is an Oxford University Press journal]
1988
REVIEW OF: Music in Early Christian Literature, ed. James W. McKinnon (Cambridge and London: Cambridge University Press, 1987).
REVIEWED IN: Music & Letters 69/2 (1988), pp. 244–6 [this is an Oxford University Press journal]
1986
REVIEW OF: Eric Werner, The Sacred Bridge, vol. 2 (New York: Ktav, 1984).
REVIEWED IN: Music & Letters 67/3 (1986), pp. 316–20 [this is an Oxford University Press journal]
1984
‘The Ancient Synagogue, the Early Church and Singing’, Music & Letters 65/1 (1984), pp. 1–16 [this is an Oxford University Press journal]