… London: Routledge. Cohn Zentner, Naomi. 2009. "Singing the Bible with a Modern Inflection: Scriptural Events, Places …

… are given above or below each word in a printed Hebrew Bible, serve three functions: they indicate the accented … te’amim throughout the twenty-one prose books of the Hebrew Bible (all except for Job, Proverbs, and Psalms). [12] The … pitches set accented syllables in the text. [20] In Hebrew Bibles, most of the te’amim are placed above or below the …