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Quote (Dr.GH @ Feb. 24 2017,23:16) | Quote (Henry J @ Feb. 22 2017,07:28) | If it doesn't rhyme in English, what about the original Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek, or whatever it was it started out in? :p |
Rhyme, and puns.
For example, the name Satan derives from "sha tar" = to wander or accuse, this and the derived Hebrew noun "sha tan" is cognate to the Akkadean verb “shu-ut” = to wander. The plural of "wanderer" became the name given to the Emperor's agents (“shatan”= to accuse) who were sent secretly to find and execute disloyal governors and other officials. They acted as tempters posing as merchants etc. They were also called the "Emperor's Wandering Eyes."
So, in the preamble to the Book of Job, the God of the Gods (“el elohim Yahweh” or “Yahweh, the God of the gods”) asked his wandering eye agent Satan ("il’shatan," literally translated is "God’s wanderer"), where he had been. The Wanderer, "I have been wandering, Lord God, wandering and accusing on the Earth, said God's Wanderer."
And it rhymed.
Dahood, Mitchell 1965 "Psalms I, 1-50: Introduction, Translation and Notes" New York: Anchor Bible Society- Doubleday
Jewish Publication Society 2004 “The Jewish Study Bible: TANAKA translation” Oxford University Press.
Pope, Marvin H. 1965 “Job: A new translation with Introduction and Commentary” Anchor Bible Society Vol. 15, New York: ABRL/Doubleday
Smith, Mark 2003 “The Origins of Biblical Monotheism: Israel's Polytheistic Background and the Ugaritic Texts” Oxford University Press. |
Nevermind allusion, alliteration, interpretation, illusion, simile, metaphor, magical reality, metamorphosis, onomatopoeia, mythic tropes, dreams out loud, speculation, superstition, symbology, subjectivity, families as we know not, power, the seven sins in spades, poverty, disease, death, starvation; not to mention floods, drought, war, rape, passion, insanity and addiction. Today's cutting edge poetry is rap music accompanied by interpretive dance . I would speculate in biblical times your modern music and dance would be a strange curiosty to the deeply superstitious mud hut villagers living on dried orange peel and a baked locust or a freshly caught lice.Tribal totems have no meaning today. All of that and what do we have for post modern fundamentalism? Nothing the fundies can offer that's for sure.
The charred waste of a cultural crematorium, I fear is upon us. A virtual Trumpian Bonfire of the Vanities.Look, don't take my word for it, it's in the bIBLE.
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