In 2018, I completed my reading of the Hebrew Bible, posting day by day, an English reading for the music according to computer aided concordance rules for repeated words.
A full concordance is available for this translation (volume 8 below and at
the concordance page above.)
The English Guide is available in my translation series: The Hebrew Bible
and its Music, in 10 volumes with many musical examples as illustrations. Pace
yourself while reading and sing a verse in Hebrew. All volumes were updated
October 2021.
1.
The Torah
2. The Former Prophets
3. The Major Prophets
4. The Twelve
5. The Books of Truth
6. The Five Scrolls
7. The Remaining Writings
8. A Biblical Hebrew to English Concordance
9. A is for Abandon, An English to Biblical Hebrew Alphabet book
10. The Progression of the Music, The Accents of the Hebrew Bible
My reading of the Psalter with its comprehensive analysis of word recurrence
patterns, is Seeing the Psalter, Patterns of Recurrence in the Poetry of the Psalms. Seeing the
Psalter can be previewed at Energion Direct and at other sites like Amazon. It was the first step in the project briefly introduced in this poster.2. The Former Prophets
3. The Major Prophets
4. The Twelve
5. The Books of Truth
6. The Five Scrolls
7. The Remaining Writings
8. A Biblical Hebrew to English Concordance
9. A is for Abandon, An English to Biblical Hebrew Alphabet book
10. The Progression of the Music, The Accents of the Hebrew Bible
Learn to read and understand the ancient story using the music. My second book
on the Bible, The Song in the Night, tells the story of the Old Testament based on the musical score embedded in
the text itself. The Song in the Night is available at
Amazon.
In 2015, I wrote a program to transform
Hebrew Text into Music XML. Believe it or not, this was intended by the writers of the Hebrew text and
they had never heard of programming. But they knew chironomy (hand signals
used to conduct music) and what they did was encode these hand signals into
the text syllable by syllable. This encoding process clearly shows our shared
capacities both for design and for music. See the music page for more
information on how to access the files.
I was born in Montreal, Canada in 1945, educated at Bishop’s College School and at McGill University, graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics in 1967. I have spent my working life in data processing, working first for IBM, then at the BC Systems Corporation, and then self-employed as a teacher of systems across North America. In 1984, I helped re-establish Anthony Macauley Associates, a software firm which has been recognized in Canada and around the world as a provider of Financial Management and Monitoring and Evaluation software.
I continue as a student of Hebrew. I have completed two fellowships at the University of Victoria in the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, one with a research project on repeated word patterns in the Psalms, and a second on the music embedded in the Hebrew text.
I had serious doubts about my sanity in undertaking and continuing this
project. It is, you should know, a project undertaken out of faith in Jesus.
He said to me (not in so many words), How can you know my thoughts if you do
not learn my language? Whoever or wherever this voice came from, it has led
me on a real journey.
I am not a scholar. But I do want to know what is going on in the so called religious world. And I have discovered a lot. I show my rough work as well as my finished work in the hope that it might help others in some way. Religion is a power game and it is shrewd to learn how to play it.
These languages (Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, Latin) were (and will remain) mystifying and foreign to me. The scholars are insightful, but they too have their own needs within their own professional areas. Some of them are wonderfully knowledgeable but they may hide their identity. Some are very helpful. Some are sometimes just plain wrong. Some are rude. (As indeed am I in these things sometimes.)
My training was in mathematics and physics. But most of my experience is in the management and development of software systems. And in the management and growth of a family over 55 years, with four children, two of which have special needs due to brain injuries, and two grandchildren. All of us benefit from the gifts of God through science, technology, and the ancient texts and testimonies.
I am getting old. Like the grey-haired of Judea in Ezra 6, building the temple. I run the risk of being put off by my enemies, just as they did. They might not even know they were my enemies.
Anyway, if you follow my work - take care. I will not knowingly mislead you, but I may be materially wrong at times. Certainly, there can be no exhaustive completeness in this work. But it is a real human endeavour, and though it is madness, I have completed it in some sense while I have sufficient light and before I can no longer work.
One thing I have done that is unique to date in the history of the Hebrew Bible. I have read the text with a program and produced all the musical scores that are implicit in the accents of the Aleppo and Leningrad codices. The music reveals the text more than any other tool. See the music page.
I was born in Montreal, Canada in 1945, educated at Bishop’s College School and at McGill University, graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics in 1967. I have spent my working life in data processing, working first for IBM, then at the BC Systems Corporation, and then self-employed as a teacher of systems across North America. In 1984, I helped re-establish Anthony Macauley Associates, a software firm which has been recognized in Canada and around the world as a provider of Financial Management and Monitoring and Evaluation software.
I continue as a student of Hebrew. I have completed two fellowships at the University of Victoria in the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, one with a research project on repeated word patterns in the Psalms, and a second on the music embedded in the Hebrew text.
I am not a scholar. But I do want to know what is going on in the so called religious world. And I have discovered a lot. I show my rough work as well as my finished work in the hope that it might help others in some way. Religion is a power game and it is shrewd to learn how to play it.
These languages (Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, Latin) were (and will remain) mystifying and foreign to me. The scholars are insightful, but they too have their own needs within their own professional areas. Some of them are wonderfully knowledgeable but they may hide their identity. Some are very helpful. Some are sometimes just plain wrong. Some are rude. (As indeed am I in these things sometimes.)
My training was in mathematics and physics. But most of my experience is in the management and development of software systems. And in the management and growth of a family over 55 years, with four children, two of which have special needs due to brain injuries, and two grandchildren. All of us benefit from the gifts of God through science, technology, and the ancient texts and testimonies.
I am getting old. Like the grey-haired of Judea in Ezra 6, building the temple. I run the risk of being put off by my enemies, just as they did. They might not even know they were my enemies.
Anyway, if you follow my work - take care. I will not knowingly mislead you, but I may be materially wrong at times. Certainly, there can be no exhaustive completeness in this work. But it is a real human endeavour, and though it is madness, I have completed it in some sense while I have sufficient light and before I can no longer work.
One thing I have done that is unique to date in the history of the Hebrew Bible. I have read the text with a program and produced all the musical scores that are implicit in the accents of the Aleppo and Leningrad codices. The music reveals the text more than any other tool. See the music page.