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Wednesday, 26 March 2014

World Vixen - I say, catch those pesky foxes! #worldvision

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World Vision has bowed to financial pressure. This reversal is bowing to the power of capital. It has nothing to do with repentance . I agre...
Sunday, 23 March 2014

Carnival is stuffed

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One week to go for The March BS Carnival XCIX - that's Biblical Studies and a fleshly festival. It is already stuffed but do tell me he...
Thursday, 20 March 2014

My current thoughts on the performance of the Music of the Psalter

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These notes are about the music implied by the te'amim in the Hebrew Bible as deciphered by Suzanne Haik-Vantoura. My primary focus at p...
Monday, 17 March 2014

Wrestling with God and Men, Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition, by Rabbi Stephen Greenberg

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A review of Wrestling with God and Men , Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition, by Rabbi Steven Greenberg. I haven't posted much rece...
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Thursday, 6 March 2014

Singing the Scriptures - Numbers 15:32-36 in Music

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I think it was nearly the very first time I ever went to Synagogue. It was a Sabbath morning, and an aged friend had asked me to take her ...
Tuesday, 4 March 2014

Some guesses at the reason for ornamentation in the Hebrew Bible

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Back to the shalshelet. I have only the Psalms to search at present, but I wondered what the shalshelet would reveal if anything about its u...
Monday, 3 March 2014

Singing the Scriptures - The Music of Amos

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I now begin to have enough material to consider some aspects of the Scriptures from a musical point of view. Warning, I still have a small p...