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Saturday 25 September 2021
The Hebrew Project: Writings - Ruth, Song of Songs, Eccesiastes/Qohelet, Lamentations, Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah
Ruth (t29)
Verses 4:18-22 are chanted.
Song of Songs (t30)
Chapter 1 is sung, as are verses 8:1-7.
Eccesiastes (t31) aka Qohelet
Lamentations (t32)
The entire book of Lamentations is chanted!
Esther (t33)
Daniel (t34)
Ezra (t35a)
Nehemiah (t35b)
The Hebrew Project: The Poetic Books - Psalms, Proverbs, Job
In the study of Biblical Hebrew, these 3 books are sometimes called the Poetic Books. They use a system of Hebrew accents/notation different from the rest of the Bible.
Psalms (t26)
Interestingly, no chanting here. Verse 63:1 has a word chopped short.
Proverbs (t28)
The audio from this book was not great on the Mechon-Mamre site. Much better copy at torahclass.com
Job (t27)
The Hebrew Project: Kethuvim/Writings. 1 and 2 Chronicles.
Onto the final division of the Hebrew Bible: Writings.
1 Chronicles (t25a)
2 Chronicles (t25b)
1 Chronicles 2:51 and 2:52a are missing. Verses 17:20-21 are chanted, with repetitions.
2 Chronicles has patches of poor sound quality after chapter 9 - lots of Max Headroom-ing. Words are missing in verse 12:9, 12:15, 16:14, 17:17, 18:11, 18:26, 18:30, 20:1 and 15, and 21:2.
Wednesday 18 August 2021
The Hebrew Project: Nevi'im/Prophets - The Minor Prophets/Book of the Twelve
The Hebrew Project: Nevi'im/Prophets - The Major Prophets
Isaiah (t10)
Jeremiah (t11)
Ezekiel (t12)
More chanting here : Isaiah 6:3, and Isaiah 12:1-6. The first word is missing in verse 3:9. In v. 36:17, half of the final word is missing. In 52:7, half of the first word
Jeremiah 44:1 is missing the final 3 words and 44:2-6 are omitted as well. In a couple of places a different reader takes over from Fr. Abraham's dulcet tones.
In Ezekiel, verse 21:2 cuts off after the word hinave (הנבא) and verse 21:3 begins with hineni (הנני). a pretty big omission.
In verse 26:3 and 28:24 the name of God (tetragrammaton) is removed.
The Hebrew Project: Nevi'im/Prophets -- Historical Books
The "History" of Israel with links to files of audio mp3 of each verse (mostly)
In the book of Joshua, audio verses 21:36 and 21:37 are missing.
I should point out that I am comparing the audio text of the Letteris version to the digital text of the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia available in Accordance Bible Software.
Sunday 15 August 2021
The Hebrew Project: Torah (the Pentateuch, Five Books of Moses)
Here are the links to the mp3s, verse by verse:
Genesis (t01)
Exodus (t02)
Leviticus (t03)
Numbers (t04)
Deuteronomy (t05)
Verses 7:78-83 of Numbers are chanted, not spoken.
Wednesday 11 August 2021
Notes on the Hebrew Project: Tanakh and Torah
So the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, is divided in three parts -- the Torah (Ta) the Prophets or Nevi'im (na) and the Writings, or Khetuvim (kh). Tanakh is a Hebrew acronym!!
Anyway, the audio file numbers are in that general order, with Chronicles being at the beginning of the Khetuvim, not the end (as it is in, say, the JPS Tanakh).
Each book and chapter is introduced by name, and I have kept these introductions attached to the relevant verse. I have also kept the parasha/portion introductions, which have been done in a different voice, obviously after Fr. Abraham's original recordings. I think it is interesting to see how the text was divided into portions for Jewish services.
A different voice also can be heard speaking the final words in some verses - presumably where they were garbled or cut off.
One little treat in the recordings of the Torah (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy) is that Numbers 7:78-83 are chanted!
Genesis
Genesis is the first book of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, and the audio file name is t01.mp3
Genesis 1:1 would be t0101-01.mp3
Genesis 22:7 is t0122:07.mp3
You get the drift.
This is the link to the Genesis (t01) file in my Google Drive.
You can listen to or download the audio files for individual verses.
Tuesday 10 August 2021
The Hebrew Project
During the COVID-19 pandemic, I spent some quality time working on a Hebrew Project.
I love listening to Fr. Abraham Shmuelof's recording of the Hebrew text, but as a student, it is sometimes difficult to find a particular verse because the recordings are only available by biblical chapter and book. I decided to listen to each chapter while reading along with the Hebrew text and split them into individual mp3s.
There were some bumps along the road, and some delightful surprises.
Unfortunately, I do not have the technical skill to post all my lovely little mp3s in a useful format. Yet.
I am loading them all to Google drive and maybe I can link from there? We shall see.
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