Chris Tomlin’s New Song "The First Hymn" Uses Words From The World’s Oldest Known Hymn

There is a beautiful new worship song called "The First Hymn" taken from an ancient manuscript. Scholars have known about the fragment, known as P.Oxy. 1786 or the Oxyrhynchus Hymn — a reference to the Oxyrhynchus Papyri collection — since 1922, when the text of the hymn was first published in English. The song is filled with Christian imagery, with worshippers telling the stars and wind to be silent as they praise God, “the giver of all good things,” but the tune is hard to sing. A new version of the Oxyrhynchus Hymn debuted last week, courtesy of a new translation from John Dickson and help from Chris Tomlin and Ben Fielding, two of the most popular modern worship songwriters.(From: https://julieroys.com/chris-tomlin-new-song-resurrects-worlds-oldest-known-hymn/)

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