private/Kolessar Prod. 
John Kolessar : Hebrew Ragas (US,2001)**°
John Kolessar is an Orthodox Seventh-Day Adventist Christian musician who plays the Sitar. According to the notes from the label, the Indian sitar was brought back to Jerusalem with the Jews and was played in the Temple during the 2nd Commonwealth, during the time of Jesus. (It was common that music and other cultural achievements had comparable boundaries to today). Oud and lute also must have been used in the temples.
Since 1994, John Kolessar has studied the history, theory, and practice of the music and religion of Israel, as well as the surrounding cultures. with a main focus on the liturgy of the Jews and Christians in Palestine during the 1st century CE. Although Indian raga's are based upon structural improvisations of a system, in harmony with senses and natural time events, John claims the music was "created by taking the melodies that the Hindus sang in their prayers to their multiple deities and setting them to the structure and format of the ragas." which still sounds like a mental idea of devotion. For the "Hebrew ragas" John takes the devotional Hebrew temple melodies and put them into a raga structure and format. The music is simple and melodious. I still have to listen a few more times to get a grip on how the structure develops.
PS. I also think that the focus on Jesus saying "follow my laws" as if it is a confirmation of saying "follow the traditions" is comparable in any sense. I can't accept how it would mean "follow the rules of traditions", because if one reads trough Jesus life, he was not the best example of someone following all common traditions. The heritage say "church" of Jesus (if) he (ever) wanted to create (one), was (supposed to be) built upon the person who was closest to the heart essence of his sayings, (namely Magdalena), but reality made a church with much more orthodox regulations. "Remember me" is also not the same thing as "do a traditional ritual every sunday", but more like a "remember my essence in your daily life", which is a completely different thing. So, performing a musical effect in the spirit of Jesus, I think seeing it as a devotional ritual based upon a rational structure, if it has not the "Zen" feeling of why one should perform this for the momentous strength of being, could easily miss the creative aspect of Jesus, a person who is supposed to be the summet of human consciousness. A true dedication therefore can only be the creative soul.
But also, whatever might have been played in the temples during the time of Jesus was not related with his own visions, so I still don't understand the relationship between these two seperate events.
