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Atonement in Hebrew Scripture
Hi waltz! You asked me to take a look at what you've written about ''Yom Kippur''. As far as I've had time, I just have. Here is my response to this thread. It's directed toward the Fray as a whole and not specifically to you, but I hope you'll find what I say interesting and valuable. You are asked to believe in the spark of your divinity, ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 29, 2008
My most abject apologies...
Dear MaryAnn, Wouldn't you know that starting right when I got up this morning, Work in the Real World kept me from getting to this. Something told me that if I didn't do this early (like, on Wednesday night or even Wednesday afternoon), I'd get to it too late. I always regret it when I don't listen to my intuition scream at me like that. I ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 24, 2008
Re: Holy, Holy, Holy Lord ...
Lunesta:''Heaven & Earth are filled with your glories, HOSANNA in the highest. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, HOSANNA in the highest.'' Blessings upon your beautiful head, my dear friend of forever. And thank you for this (indeed, as promised, very) different and quite lovely Thursday OPP. Sorry for the late reply; ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on December 15, 2007
Re: Of course, the Psalms are poems...
Lunesta:one has only to read just a few of them ALOUD to SENSE and know that. If someone has a 'deaf ear,' however & is not natively attuned to hearing the RHYTHMS in the words of the Psalms, ''someone'' can easily miss the affinity and natural relation. ''Someone'' also could/might like to start up (ongoing, old, former, continuing ...) ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on December 15, 2007
Re: To MaryAnn
I do not see the entire bible as poetic, certainly. I see Psalms as poetry because it brings forth for me the same emotional and spiritual experience I feel in Wordsworth's Intimations, for example. And yet you say: The poet is at heart a musician. The musician, a poet. Which is precisely why the whole Hebrew Bible is poetic (or rather ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on December 13, 2007
Re: poetry or song lyrics?
Dear MaryAnn, Briefly then: 1) In Latin, ''I came, I saw, I conquered'' is certainly poetic by Latin's own standards (it's an epigram). In like manner, biblical Hebrew poetry (as classically considered) is set apart by parallelism, but biblical Hebrew itself by five factors (among others) that are making scholars rethink the whole question -- ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on December 13, 2007
Re: Poetry as song as poetry and belief systems
Dear MaryAnn, I hope you'll catch my other reply to you -- the one that addresses why I submitted this Psalm as poetry. It covers some of the issues raised here. Again, no one in the specialties involved -- no one -- doubts that the Psalms (taking just the words alone) are poetry. No one considers them prose or even prose poetry. But biblical ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on December 13, 2007
Re: MaryAnn, Angel and j.l.stix
Thanks, MaryAnn, for your defense. Yours too, Angel. But I think what I say and what I don't say stand on their own merits. Your replies were much appreciated all the same. Mr.(?) Stix, I'm rather reminded of Louis Armstrong's famous comment about what jazz is: ''If you have to ask, you'll never understand.'' I am tempted to say, if you have to ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on December 13, 2007
Re: poetry or song lyrics?
MaryAnn: Hi White Rabbit, I was wondering why you classify this psalm or any of the other psalms as poetry. From your introductory paragraphs, I can see how the rules and conventions of the psalms' original Hebrew version are relevant to song lyrics. And as you know, the etymology of the word psalm reinforces the concept of a psalm as a ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on December 13, 2007
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

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