The Shofar: Its History and Use

by Jeremy Montagu

In The Shofar, Jeremy Montagu offers a detailed study of the ram's horn of the Bible, describing its history and use-both ritual and secular-from biblical times to the present. Because the same person normally blows the shofar each year during the Jewish High Holy Days, few are aware of the wide differences among communities around the world: the varying points in the Jewish liturgical service when the shofar is blown, what sound combinations exist,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442250275
• ISBN13: 9781442250277
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 10.1"