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  • Parallelism in ancient Semitic poetry

    Hi Waltz, One has to get used to the rhetoric of ancient Semitic poetry before one's ear is trained to tell the difference between a translation that takes the rhetoric into account and one that doesn't. To me, the difference is salient and non-negligible. Practice with the Psalms in their original musical dress has helped me enormously in this ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on March 29, 2008

  • 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

  • (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

  • New YouTube slideshow: Psalms 130

    The Music of the Bible Revealed - Slideshow (Psalms 130) In keeping with the exquisite simplicity of the ''melopoesis'' of this Psalm as reconstructed by Suzanne Haik-Vantoura, my new YouTube slideshow uses very simple graphic and animation techniques. However, for NoStar's benefit (ask and you shall receive) and the benefit of those on YouTube ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 19, 2007

  • (שלום) The text is Psalms 113, BTW...

    And here is the Greek Orthodox version (or one of them, if there's more than one) -- it is totally different in spirit from the reconstructed Hebrew version. The choirs are not quite in tune, even by what seems to be the singers' own native temperament (they're beautifully in tune in the upper registers, but have trouble in the lower ones). I ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 5, 2007

  • (שלום) My latest offering of Hebrew sung poetry...comments?

    Ancient Hebrew sung poetry performed by the redoubtable Robert Boschiero (tenor) and Sabine Chefson (Celtic harp) on the recording La musique de la Bible revelee - Volume 3 by Suzanne Haik-Vantoura... This YouTube video slideshow is set apart by two things, one of which at least will be of interest and value to those of you who love poetry as ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 5, 2007

  • (שלום) New videos now available

    As always, accessible from here. This weekend's selection of sung poetry includes Psalms 137, 47 (part), Numbers 6:22-27 (the Priestly Blessing -- my best slideshow video yet) and Exodus 20:2 (set apart by mediocre shofar playing, poor singing and bad lighting). wr ()()
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 22, 2007