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Re: (תהללים) Thursday OPP: Psalms 24
Dear Angel, You're welcome. The way selah (''Weigh this!'') is used in many Psalms and in Habakkuk 3 - indeed its very meaning - has been the subject of much debate, ever since the days of the Greek Septuagint version. It took the rediscovery of the original melodic rendition (''cantillation'') of Hebrew Scripture to make clear what this ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on December 13, 2007
Re: (תהללים) Thursday OPP: Psalms 24
Bratsche:W_R; First, let me applaude your lambing yourself before the half-jawed lions of NeoRomeAmerica. (...) If I may say it, this is one lamb that no lion in his right mind would want to face -- and most of the long-time Fraysters who know me know it. That's one reason why you don't see too many of them debating me, or even baiting ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on December 13, 2007
Re: (תהללים) Thursday OPP: Psalms 24
Dear stucco, Thanks for all your comments. Yes, I noticed your posting's timing and nature. Well, don't dengirate yourself too much, but that's the difference between inspirational poetry and inspired poetry -- which is why I generally stick to parodies these days. I promised Lunesta that I would do something special. I think this qualifies, ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on December 13, 2007
Re: (תהללים) Thursday OPP: Psalms 24
j.l. stix.: God Is Not Great fighting wordsentries123 from: Christopher Hitchens Religion Poisons Everything Posted Wednesday, April 25, 2007 There are four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum of ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on December 13, 2007
(תהללים) Thursday OPP: Psalms 24
Thursday OPP – Psalms 24Let us begin with just the consonants of the Masoretic Text: לדוד מזמורליהוה הארץ ומלואהתבל וישבי בהכי הוא על-ימים יסדהועל-נהרות יכוננהמי-יעלה בהר יהוהומי-יקום במקום קדשונקי כפים ובר לבבאשר לא-נשא לשוא נפשיולא נשבע למרמהישא ברכה מאת יהוהוצדקה מאלהי ישעוזה דור דרשיומבקשי פניך יעקב סלהשאו שערים ראשיכםוהנשאו פתחי עולםויבוא מלך ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on December 12, 2007
Re: But "nefesh" does mean "soul".
apropos of nothing: I recall Nietzsche's quip that he had traced the etymology of 'spiritus' and 'pneuma' to a word that meant 'beans.'
Posted to Culturebox by Ehfordii on October 2, 2007
Robt. Alter's Psalms
As much respect as I have always have for Prof. Alter's scholarship, the value of the KJV goes far beyond its proximity or lack thereof to the original Hebrew. The AV has seeped so deeply into our cultural inheritance it will be impossible to extricate it; and Prof. Alter's Psalms will be a mere footnote or retellng.
Posted to Culturebox by Ehfordii on October 2, 2007
Illuminating New Translation of Psalms
I find that reverting to the original meaning of the Hebrew text, explaining it's multiple meanings per word or term, then extrapolating that into the possibly more intentional translation is both illuminating and freeing, all at once. To read the text with a purer translation, especially as these words would mean to us now, removes the esoteric ...
Posted to Culturebox by mizk on October 1, 2007
My discussion on Culturebox of Alter's Psalms
Well, since my ride is running much later than either of us wanted, I'm still here. Thanks to zbigley for pointing me to an article I'd already seen advertised: Robert Alter's discussion of his own new translation of the Psalms. You will find my very detailed discussion here. Comments are welcome here and/or there (although again, it will be some ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on September 26, 2007
What Alter gets right (and wrong) about the Psalms
An occasional visitor to Poems Fray (which is where I usually hang out these days) quipped that Mr. Robert Alter must've waited until I was about to leave on a trip (for my church's observance of the biblical Feast of Tabernacles, as it happens) before he announced his book on the Fray. The visitor said this because 1) I am a student of biblical ...
Posted to Culturebox by White_Rabbit on September 26, 2007

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