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RiemannLives
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What is known in modern times as Judges 5, or "the song of Deborah", is quite possibly the oldest surviving piece of literature in the Tanakh (also known as the Old Testament or Hebrew Bible).
Dating back as much as a couple hundred years prior to the creation and editing of the Tanakh in the period of the Babylonian Exile (early 6th century BCE) it may be a dim memory of the chaos that accompanied the end of bronze age civilization in the eastern Mediterranean. The translation differs greatly between different English versions as it is poetry that even the priests of the 6th century found to be confusing to read. Hence the previous section (now called Judges 4) is the same story written out in prose. But it is precisely because it is poetry, and presumably was set to music, that it was able to endure in oral tradition for any length of time.
note: due to some religious prohibitions that came about much later and the long and strange history of translations, anywhere below that reads "Lord" is in the original the proper name of the Hebrew god "YHWH". Since vowels were not included in that script the pronunciation has been inferred by modern scholars from transliterations into other ancient languages to be "Yahweh".
Further, while the NRSV is the best all round scholarly English translation in common use (it is what is used in the Oxford Annotated) I have read good arguments to the effect that anywhere in this song reading "bless" is more accurately read "praise" (eg: "bless the lord" should be read as "Praise Yahweh!". "Bless" today carries connotations of peaceful benediction when this song is a rally to Holy War.
Dating back as much as a couple hundred years prior to the creation and editing of the Tanakh in the period of the Babylonian Exile (early 6th century BCE) it may be a dim memory of the chaos that accompanied the end of bronze age civilization in the eastern Mediterranean. The translation differs greatly between different English versions as it is poetry that even the priests of the 6th century found to be confusing to read. Hence the previous section (now called Judges 4) is the same story written out in prose. But it is precisely because it is poetry, and presumably was set to music, that it was able to endure in oral tradition for any length of time.
note: due to some religious prohibitions that came about much later and the long and strange history of translations, anywhere below that reads "Lord" is in the original the proper name of the Hebrew god "YHWH". Since vowels were not included in that script the pronunciation has been inferred by modern scholars from transliterations into other ancient languages to be "Yahweh".
Further, while the NRSV is the best all round scholarly English translation in common use (it is what is used in the Oxford Annotated) I have read good arguments to the effect that anywhere in this song reading "bless" is more accurately read "praise" (eg: "bless the lord" should be read as "Praise Yahweh!". "Bless" today carries connotations of peaceful benediction when this song is a rally to Holy War.
Judges 5 NRSV wrote:"When locks are long in Israel,
when the people offer themselves willingly—
bless(a) the Lord!
“Hear, O kings; give ear, O princes;
to the Lord I will sing,
I will make melody to the Lord, the God of Israel.
“Lord, when you went out from Seir,
when you marched from the region of Edom,
the earth trembled,
and the heavens poured,
the clouds indeed poured water.
The mountains quaked before the Lord, the One of Sinai,
before the Lord, the God of Israel.
“In the days of Shamgar son of Anath,
in the days of Jael, caravans ceased
and travelers kept to the byways.
The peasantry prospered in Israel,
they grew fat on plunder,
because you arose, Deborah,
arose as a mother in Israel.
When new gods were chosen,
then war was in the gates.
Was shield or spear to be seen
among forty thousand in Israel?
My heart goes out to the commanders of Israel
who offered themselves willingly among the people.
Bless the Lord.
Tell of it, you who ride on white donkeys,
you who sit on rich carpets(b)
and you who walk by the way.
To the sound of musicians(c) at the watering places,
there they repeat the triumphs of the Lord,
the triumphs of his peasantry in Israel.
“Then down to the gates marched the people of the Lord.
“Awake, awake, Deborah!
Awake, awake, utter a song!
Arise, Barak, lead away your captives,
O son of Abinoam.
Then down marched the remnant of the noble;
the people of the Lord marched down for him(d) against the mighty.
From Ephraim they set out(e) into the valley,(f)
following you, Benjamin, with your kin;
from Machir marched down the commanders,
and from Zebulun those who bear the marshal’s staff;
the chiefs of Issachar came with Deborah,
and Issachar faithful to Barak;
into the valley they rushed out at his heels.
Among the clans of Reuben
there were great searchings of heart.
Why did you tarry among the sheepfolds,
to hear the piping for the flocks?
Among the clans of Reuben
there were great searchings of heart.
Gilead stayed beyond the Jordan;
and Dan, why did he abide with the ships?
Asher sat still at the coast of the sea,
settling down by his landings.
Zebulun is a people that scorned death;
Naphtali too, on the heights of the field.
“The kings came, they fought;
then fought the kings of Canaan,
at Taanach, by the waters of Megiddo;
they got no spoils of silver.
The stars fought from heaven,
from their courses they fought against Sisera.
The torrent Kishon swept them away,
the onrushing torrent, the torrent Kishon.
March on, my soul, with might!
“Then loud beat the horses’ hoofs
with the galloping, galloping of his steeds.
“Curse Meroz, says the angel of the Lord,
curse bitterly its inhabitants,
because they did not come to the help of the Lord,
to the help of the Lord against the mighty.
“Most blessed of women be Jael,
the wife of Heber the Kenite,
of tent-dwelling women most blessed.
He asked water and she gave him milk,
she brought him curds in a lordly bowl.
She put her hand to the tent peg
and her right hand to the workmen’s mallet;
she struck Sisera a blow,
she crushed his head,
she shattered and pierced his temple.
He sank, he fell,
he lay still at her feet;
at her feet he sank, he fell;
where he sank, there he fell dead.
“Out of the window she peered,
the mother of Sisera gazed(g) through the lattice:
‘Why is his chariot so long in coming?
Why tarry the hoofbeats of his chariots?’
Her wisest ladies make answer,
indeed, she answers the question herself:
‘Are they not finding and dividing the spoil?—
A girl or two for every man;
spoil of dyed stuffs for Sisera,
spoil of dyed stuffs embroidered,
two pieces of dyed work embroidered for my neck as spoil?’
“So perish all your enemies, O Lord!
But may your friends be like the sun as it rises in its might.”
a Judges 5:2 Or You who offer yourselves willingly among the people, bless
b Judges 5:10 Meaning of Heb uncertain
c Judges 5:11 Meaning of Heb uncertain
d Judges 5:13 Gk: Heb me
e Judges 5:14 Cn: Heb From Ephraim their root
f Judges 5:14 Gk: Heb in Amalek
g Judges 5:28 Gk Compare Tg: Heb exclaimed
b Judges 5:10 Meaning of Heb uncertain
c Judges 5:11 Meaning of Heb uncertain
d Judges 5:13 Gk: Heb me
e Judges 5:14 Cn: Heb From Ephraim their root
f Judges 5:14 Gk: Heb in Amalek
g Judges 5:28 Gk Compare Tg: Heb exclaimed
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