tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69048821824533923672024-03-16T22:36:35.455-07:00DustFor there is a language of flowers <br>for flowers are peculiarly, the poetry of Christ (Christopher Smart)<br>א ב ג ד ה ו ז ח ט י כ ל מ נ ס ע פ צ ק ר ש תBob MacDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11335631079939764763noreply@blogger.comBlogger3417125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904882182453392367.post-12245608383154549552024-03-07T16:52:00.000-08:002024-03-07T16:52:11.169-08:00Carnival for February Be sure to read the Biblical Studies Carnival #215 for February 2024.Bob MacDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11335631079939764763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904882182453392367.post-12844376241218333602024-03-01T00:00:00.000-08:002024-03-01T00:00:00.135-08:00#Messiah texts - overviewHere is a summary of the series of posts I have done on Messiah, the texts. I am debating whether to attempt a Messiah in Hebrew set to the music of the te'amim. Of course it wouldn't be Handel but what would its theology be and how many other texts might be included?
2024
Subject
Source text in Tanach
Other texts noted in passing & NT
Jan 30
Comfort
Bob MacDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11335631079939764763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904882182453392367.post-1757511790658875362024-02-29T00:00:00.000-08:002024-02-29T00:00:00.145-08:00Redemption #Messiah texts Job 19:25–26; Psalm 49:8, Isaiah 25:8, Hosea 13:14 #Psalter
After this verse from Job 19, the remainder of the texts for Part III of
Messiah are from the New Testament (1 Corinthians 15 and Romans 8). The beginning of redemption
occurs on a rare day! (Feb 29, 2024) Gives much joy whatever the stresses are in our lives.
I am reminded of Psalm 49:8 -- we can't find an adequate cover-price for ourselves.
אָ֗ח לֹא־פָדֹ֣ה יִפְדֶּ֣ה אִ֑ישׁלֹא־Bob MacDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11335631079939764763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904882182453392367.post-63957359979278378002024-02-28T00:00:00.000-08:002024-02-28T00:00:00.240-08:00Vengeance #Messiah texts #Psalter Psalm 2:943. Air (Tenor) – Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel. Psalm 2:9תְּ֭רֹעֵם בְּשֵׁ֣בֶט בַּרְזֶ֑לכִּכְלִ֖י יוֹצֵ֣ר תְּנַפְּצֵֽם9 ♪g You will injure them with an iron sceptre.Like fashioned vessels, you will smash them.'t troym bwb't brzlccli ioxr tnpxm87t/ry\m b/wb't brzlc/cli iv/xr t/npx\m44. Chorus – Bob MacDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11335631079939764763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904882182453392367.post-83462037728216864682024-02-27T00:00:00.000-08:002024-02-27T00:00:00.130-08:00Ridicule #Messiah texts #Psalter Psalm 2:442. Recitative (Tenor) – He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh them to scorn: the Lord shall have them in derision.Psalm 2:4יוֹשֵׁ֣ב בַּשָּׁמַ֣יִם יִשְׂחָ֑קאֲ֝דֹנָ֗י יִלְעַג־לָֽמוֹ4 The one sitting in the heavens, he laughs.My Lord derides them.d iowb bwmiim iwkqadonii ilyg-lmo77iv/wb b/wmim i/wkqadn\i i/lyg l\mvThere are 79 other verses in the Poetry books that Bob MacDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11335631079939764763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904882182453392367.post-33538797936577749662024-02-26T00:00:00.000-08:002024-02-26T00:00:00.342-08:00Rebellion #Messiah texts #Psalter Psalm 2:3 41. Chorus – Let us break their bonds asunder, and cast away their yokes from us. Psalm 2:3נְֽ֭נַתְּקָה אֶת־מֽוֹסְרוֹתֵ֑ימוֹוְנַשְׁלִ֖יכָה מִמֶּ֣נּוּ עֲבֹתֵֽימוֹ3 ♪g Let us snap their bonds,and kiss good-bye to their cords.g nntqh at-mosrotimovnwlich mmnu ybotimo811n/ntq\h at mv/sr\vtimvvn/wlc\h m/mn\v ybt\imvThe musical phrase is unique, occurring only Bob MacDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11335631079939764763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904882182453392367.post-74496046479098570012024-02-25T00:00:00.000-08:002024-02-25T00:00:00.126-08:00Fury #Messiah texts #Psalter Psalm 2:1–240. Air (bass) – Why do the nations so furiously rage together: and why do the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth rise up, and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord, and against his Anointed. Psalm 2:1–2לָ֭מָּה רָגְשׁ֣וּ גוֹיִ֑םוּ֝לְאֻמִּ֗ים יֶהְגּוּ־רִֽיק1 ♪g Why such a throng of nations?and tribes in empty muttering?a lmh rgwu goiimulaumim Bob MacDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11335631079939764763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904882182453392367.post-51694417688628724522024-02-24T00:00:00.000-08:002024-02-24T00:00:00.136-08:00Universal #Messiah texts #Psalter Psalm 19:539. Chorus – Their sound is gone out into all lands, and their words unto the ends of the world. Psalm 19:5 (Romans 10:18)בְּכָל־הָאָ֨רֶץ ׀ יָ֘צָ֤א קַוָּ֗ם וּבִקְצֵ֣ה תֵ֭בֵל מִלֵּיהֶ֑םלַ֝שֶּׁ֗מֶשׁ שָֽׂם־אֹ֥הֶל בָּהֶֽם5 In all the earth their line has gone out, and to the extremity of the world their speech.For the sun he pitched a tent in them.h bcl-harx ixa qvvm ubqxh tbl Bob MacDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11335631079939764763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904882182453392367.post-28613220937666742582024-02-23T00:00:00.000-08:002024-02-23T00:00:00.128-08:00Beauty #Messiah texts Isaiah 52:738. Air (soprano) – How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things! Isaiah 52:7 (Romans 10:15)מַה־נָּאו֨וּ עַל־הֶהָרִ֜ים רַגְלֵ֣י מְבַשֵּׂ֗ר מַשְׁמִ֧יעַ שָׁל֛וֹם מְבַשֵּׂ֥ר ט֖וֹב מַשְׁמִ֣יעַ יְשׁוּעָ֑האֹמֵ֥ר לְצִיּ֖וֹן מָלַ֥ךְ אֱלֹהָֽיִךְ7 How lovely on the hills are the feet of one who publishes, broadcasting peace, one who Bob MacDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11335631079939764763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904882182453392367.post-7468808215414932622024-02-22T00:00:00.000-08:002024-02-22T00:00:00.133-08:00Proclamation #Messiah texts #Psalter Psalm 68:12 [11]37. Chorus – The Lord gave the word: great was the company of the preachers. Psalm 68:12 [11]אֲדֹנָ֥י יִתֶּן־אֹ֑מֶרהַֽ֝מְבַשְּׂר֗וֹת צָבָ֥א רָֽב12 My Lord gave a promise.The women publishing are an abundant host.ib adonii iitn-aomrhmbwrot xba rb76adn\i i/tn amrhm/bwr\vt xba rbPreachers is a defective translation -- the form is feminine plural. No males included.Bob MacDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11335631079939764763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904882182453392367.post-25710954875458145602024-02-21T00:00:00.000-08:002024-02-21T00:00:00.241-08:00Ascension #Messiah texts #Psalter Psalm 2:7, 68:19, 97:7
34. Recitative (tenor) – Unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou
art my Son, this day have I begotten thee?
Psalm 2:7 cited in Hebrews
1:5
אֲסַפְּרָ֗ה אֶֽ֫ל־חֹ֥קיְֽהוָ֗ה אָמַ֘ר אֵלַ֥י בְּנִ֥י
Bob MacDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11335631079939764763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904882182453392367.post-20478761236431175442024-02-20T00:00:00.000-08:002024-02-20T00:00:00.143-08:00Entry #Messiah texts #Psalter Psalm 24:7–1033. Chorus – Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Psalm 24:7–10שְׂא֤וּ שְׁעָרִ֨ים ׀ רָֽאשֵׁיכֶ֗ם וְֽ֭הִנָּשְׂאוּ פִּתְחֵ֣י עוֹלָ֑םוְ֝יָב֗וֹא מֶ֣לֶךְ הַכָּבֽוֹד7 Lift up, O gates, your heads, and be lifted up, O doors everlasting,and Bob MacDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11335631079939764763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904882182453392367.post-23632478537352362102024-02-19T00:00:00.000-08:002024-02-19T00:00:00.167-08:00Not forsaken #Messiah texts #Psalter Psalm 16:1032. Air (tenor) – But thou didst not leave his soul in hell; nor didst thou suffer thy Holy One to see corruption.Psalm 16:10כִּ֤י ׀ לֹא־תַעֲזֹ֣ב נַפְשִׁ֣י לִשְׁא֑וֹללֹֽא־תִתֵּ֥ן חֲ֝סִידְךָ֗ לִרְא֥וֹת שָֽׁחַת10 ♪C For you will not forsake me to the grave.You will not permit one within your mercy to see destruction.i ci la-tyzob npwi lwaolla-titn ksidç lraot wkt89ci la t/yzb&Bob MacDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11335631079939764763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904882182453392367.post-50512729840419988732024-02-18T00:00:00.000-08:002024-02-18T00:00:00.136-08:00Disconnection #Messiah texts Isaiah 53:8 #Psalter31. Accompagnato (tenor) – He was cut off out the land of the living: for the transgressions of thy people was he stricken.Isaiah 53:8מֵעֹ֤צֶר וּמִמִּשְׁפָּט֙ לֻקָּ֔ח וְאֶת־דּוֹר֖וֹ מִ֣י יְשׂוֹחֵ֑חַכִּ֤י נִגְזַר֙ מֵאֶ֣רֶץ חַיִּ֔ים מִפֶּ֥שַׁע עַמִּ֖י נֶ֥גַע לָֽמוֹ8 From coercion and from judgment he is taken, and who will ponder his generation?Because he was disconnected from the land of the Bob MacDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11335631079939764763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904882182453392367.post-53276682274489299692024-02-17T00:00:00.000-08:002024-02-17T00:00:00.141-08:00Sorrow #Messiah texts Lamentations 1:1230. Arioso (tenor) – Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto his sorrow.Lamentations 1:12 ל֣וֹא אֲלֵיכֶם֮ כָּל־עֹ֣בְרֵי דֶרֶךְ֒ הַבִּ֣יטוּ וּרְא֗וּ אִם־יֵ֤שׁ מַכְאוֹב֙ כְּמַכְאֹבִ֔י אֲשֶׁ֥ר עוֹלַ֖ל לִ֑יאֲשֶׁר֙ הוֹגָ֣ה יְהוָ֔ה בְּי֖וֹם חֲר֥וֹן אַפּֽוֹ ס12 ♪B Look now, (Is it not for you, all you passing this way?) and see if there is sorrow like my sorrow which is prodigal as Bob MacDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11335631079939764763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904882182453392367.post-85184314584817701972024-02-16T00:00:00.000-08:002024-02-16T00:00:00.152-08:00Alone #Messiah texts #Psalter Psalm 69:21 [20]29. Accompagnato (tenor) – Thy rebuke hath broken his heart; he is full of heaviness. He looked for some to have pity on him, but there was no man, neither found he any to comfort him.Psalm 69:21 [20]חֶרְפָּ֤ה ׀ שָֽׁבְרָ֥ה לִבִּ֗י וָֽאָ֫נ֥וּשָׁהוָאֲקַוֶּ֣ה לָנ֣וּד וָאַ֑יִןוְ֝לַמְנַחֲמִ֗ים וְלֹ֣א מָצָֽאתִי21 Reproach has broken my heart and I am despondent.And I waited for sympathy but there Bob MacDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11335631079939764763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904882182453392367.post-29582068167530491782024-02-15T00:00:00.000-08:002024-02-15T00:00:00.129-08:00Contagion #Messiah texts Isaiah 53:4-624. Chorus – Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him.אָכֵ֤ן חֳלָיֵ֙נוּ֙ ה֣וּא נָשָׂ֔א וּמַכְאֹבֵ֖ינוּ סְבָלָ֑םוַאֲנַ֣חְנוּ חֲשַׁבְנֻ֔הוּ נָג֛וּעַ מֻכֵּ֥ה אֱלֹהִ֖ים וּמְעֻנֶּֽה4 Nevertheless our illnesses he himself bore and the burden of our sorrows he Bob MacDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11335631079939764763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904882182453392367.post-46275349093585996312024-02-14T14:50:00.000-08:002024-02-14T14:50:00.127-08:00The Lamb of God #Messiah Texts Isaiah 53:3, 50:622. Chorus – Behold the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world. (John 1:29)Where are the antecedents to this verse in Tanach? We will see one of them in a few days.23. Air (mezzo-soprano) – He was despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.נִבְזֶה֙ וַחֲדַ֣ל אִישִׁ֔ים אִ֥ישׁ מַכְאֹב֖וֹת וִיד֣וּעַ חֹ֑לִיוּכְמַסְתֵּ֤ר פָּנִים֙ מִמֶּ֔נּוּ נִבְזֶ֖ה וְלֹ֥א Bob MacDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11335631079939764763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904882182453392367.post-1975289343684561372024-02-13T00:00:00.000-08:002024-02-13T00:00:00.238-08:00Shepherd again #Messiah texts Isaiah 40:1120. Duet (mezzo-soprano/soprano) – He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: and he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and gently lead those that are with young.כְּרֹעֶה֙ עֶדְר֣וֹ יִרְעֶ֔ה בִּזְרֹעוֹ֙ יְקַבֵּ֣ץ טְלָאִ֔ים וּבְחֵיק֖וֹ יִשָּׂ֑אעָל֖וֹת יְנַהֵֽל ס11 As a shepherd, his troop he will tend. In his arm, he will collect the patchwork and in his embrace Bob MacDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11335631079939764763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904882182453392367.post-14585385115885653532024-02-12T00:00:00.000-08:002024-02-12T00:00:00.134-08:00Eyes and Ears #Messiah texts Isaiah 35:5–619. Recitative (mezzo-soprano) – Then shall the eyes of the blind be opened, and the ears of the deaf unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing. Isaiah 35:5–6Ear (azn) and eye (yin) are used 8 times together in Isaiah's verses. He emphasizes the senses from the beginning (chapter 6) to the middle here and to the end (chapter 64). I'm Bob MacDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11335631079939764763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904882182453392367.post-11332877838021411422024-02-11T11:48:00.000-08:002024-02-11T11:48:00.358-08:00Vav is a gate to a host of possibilities
Vav
is a hook. It's what keeps the pieces of the tabernacle together. When
I was dabbling in grammar for my own learning last season, I didn't attempt to
summarize this most important enclitic Hebrew consonant. Vav attaches itself to all
sorts of things. It's a prefix with a great variety of uses and a suffix also.
This is where its hook nature thrives. There are other hooks in the Bob MacDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11335631079939764763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904882182453392367.post-19854126705442368192024-02-11T00:00:00.000-08:002024-02-11T00:00:00.132-08:00Rejoice #Messiah texts Zechariah 9:9-10
18. Air (soprano) – Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of
Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is the righteous Saviour, and
he shall speak peace unto the heathen.
Zechariah 9:9-10
גִּילִ֨י מְאֹ֜ד בַּת־צִיּ֗וֹן הָרִ֙יעִי֙ בַּ֣ת יְרוּשָׁלִַ֔ם הִנֵּ֤ה
מַלְכֵּךְ֙ יָ֣בוֹא לָ֔ךְ צַדִּ֥יק וְנוֹשָׁ֖ע ה֑וּאעָנִי֙
Bob MacDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11335631079939764763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904882182453392367.post-64882433343835891732024-02-10T08:00:00.000-08:002024-02-10T08:00:00.133-08:00Interlude - and the Shepherds #Messiah texts Luke 2 #Psalter
So how shall I read these texts from the New Testament? There is no music in
the Greek NT and of the accents in the Hebrew NT, I have deciphered only a
few, for of course they were put there by those who understood them
differently from me or Suzanne Haïk-Vantoura. Such a reconstruction in Hebrew
speaks to different assumptions than mine. A reader of the Tanach can of
course Bob MacDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11335631079939764763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904882182453392367.post-74547830621702204012024-02-10T00:00:00.000-08:002024-02-10T00:00:00.135-08:00New Testament texts in #Messiah via AI, #PsalterI have been without a proper office for over a year now, and all my books are either given away or in storage. So analysis of the New Testament texts is a bit of a chore and I decided to ask my open AI companion, ChatGPT - a polite chap who answers without complaint. He told me things I knew already and saved a lot of time writing. I won't pursue these in the music of the Tanach yet. It would Bob MacDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11335631079939764763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904882182453392367.post-82928880005600698402024-02-09T00:00:00.000-08:002024-02-09T00:00:00.133-08:00Birth #Messiah texts Isaiah 9:6 [v. 5 Hebrew]12. Chorus – For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder; and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.Isaiah 9:6 [v. 5 Hebrew]It's not Handel but the music does some word painting on pla (wonderful), Curious too the appending of the adverb for ever to the noun. I don't Bob MacDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11335631079939764763noreply@blogger.com0