Editing Nevi'im (section)

===Cantillation===
There is a special [[Hebrew cantillation|cantillation]] melody for the haftarah, distinct from that of the Torah portion.  In some earlier authorities there are references to a tune for the "prophets" generally, distinct from that for the haftarah: this may have been a simplified melody for learning purposes.{{Efn | The article on "Cantillation" in the [[Jewish Encyclopedia]] shows tunes for "Prophets (other readings)" for both the Western Sephardi and the Baghdadi traditions.}}

Certain cantillation marks and combinations appear in Nevi'im but not within any of the Haftarah selections, and most communities therefore do not have a musical tradition for those marks. J.L. Neeman suggested that "those who recite Nevi'im privately with the cantillation melody may read the words accented by those rare notes by using a "metaphor" based on the melody of those notes in the five books of the Torah, while adhering to the [[musical scale]] of the melody for Nevi'im."  Neeman includes a reconstruction of the musical scale for the lost melodies of the rare cantillation notes.<ref>{{Citation | last = Neeman | first = JL | title = The Tunes of the Bible – Musical Principles of the Biblical Accentuation | place = Tel Aviv | year = 1955 | language = he | volume = 1 | pages = 136, 188–89}}.</ref>  In the Ashkenazi tradition, the resemblance between the Torah and Haftarah melodies is obvious and it is easy to transpose motifs between the two as suggested by Neeman.  In the Sephardi traditions the haftarah melody is considerably more florid than the Torah melody, and usually in a different musical mode, and there are only isolated points of contact between the two.