Rejoicing in and Singing the Psalms with Arden and Shon Hopkin (week of Aug. 8, first to listen to)
The Scriptures Are Real
Kerry Muhlestein
4.8 • 540 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Kerry is joined by Shon and Arden Hopkin. Shon is the Ancient Scripture Department Chair at BYU. His father, Arden, was a professor of music and a professional cantor for multiple synagogues. Along with Kerry they explore what the psalms are, how they are used in various traditions, how they have affected music, and how they can affect us. This episode includes demonstrations of a cantor reciting the psalms. various artists reciting the psalms, and even Arden singing a psalm. It will help you understand the psalms like nothing else!
Our gratitude to our sponsor, Lisa Spice, to Jacob Muhlestein for editing this episode, and to Rich Nicholls, for composing and playing the music for the podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Scriptures A Real podcast. This is the podcast where we talk about times where the scriptures have become real to us or more meaningful or had power in our lives because we think as they become more real, |
| 0:21.7 | we can draw more power from them and we need that power. I'm your host, Kerry Mealstein, and I have |
| 0:26.6 | two guests with me today. This is just a delightful opportunity and privilege. We have Sean and |
| 0:31.9 | Arden Hopkins with us. I've known Sean for a very long time. He's currently my department chair, |
| 0:38.5 | but I like him anyway. |
| 0:46.8 | And he is, we've just been colleagues for a very long time, even when Sean was just finishing graduate school and I was a fairly new faculty member. And then I got to know Arden when I was |
| 0:51.9 | teaching in at the BYU Jerusalem Center. |
| 0:55.2 | And I knew him then as Elder Hopkin with his wife's sister Hopkin. |
| 0:59.3 | And they were up in the Galilee area. |
| 1:02.2 | We went and stayed and spent some time with them and found them the most wonderful, kind, loving host. |
| 1:08.7 | But also he is incredibly musically talented. So welcome to the show, |
| 1:14.3 | Hopkin. I wouldn't say brothers, I guess, is Hopkins family. We are brothers, Hopkins, but we |
| 1:20.6 | share other relationships as well. That's right. I'm proud to say my son is your department |
| 1:25.5 | chair. Yeah, yeah, you should be proud. So maybe we'll call you |
| 1:28.6 | Hopkin and Hopkin. That sounds like a good business. H&H incorporated, yeah. And I have to say |
| 1:35.0 | before we say anything more, Kerry was really instrumental, honestly, as I was preparing to get |
| 1:42.2 | hired at BYU, a mentor. I had submitted a paper, |
| 1:44.9 | and there was a discussion of, you know, some things in the paper. And he said, okay, let's work through this because I want this to be as good as possible. And so he's played from early on an important role in my career. And Kerry, I remember that well. We haven't talked about that much, but I remember that well. |
| 2:00.8 | I just did a lunch one time, I think, |
| 2:02.5 | but I remember it well we haven't talked about that much but I remember that well I just did a lunch one time I think but I remember it well as |
| 2:03.9 | well because anyway there were some silly stuff with but not on your part but |
| 2:07.3 | others you were so good to work with it I've never regretted having had that |
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