Saturday, 25 September 2021

The Hebrew Project: Complete Audio mp3s

I have created a separate Page (as opposed to Blog Post) with all these links - in case you want to bookmark it.  See the sidebar for the link.


Torah

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

Hosea (t13)

Joel (t14)

Amos (t15)

Obadiah (t16)

Jonah (t17)

Micah (t18)

Nahum (t19)

Habakkuk (t20)

Zephaniah (t21)

Haggai (t22)

Zechariah (t23)

Malachi (t24)


Hosea 12:6 is missing the final word.  There is a new reader in Joel 2:25-27.  Otherwise, the minor prophets are good!


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)


Joshua (t06)

Judges (t07)

1 Samuel (t08a)

2 Samuel (t08b)

1 Kings (t09a)

2 Kings (t09b)


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.