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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

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)

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.