[B-Greek] YALLW and ADW
Brent Hudson
brent at riveroflifembchurch.com
Wed Sep 17 15:26:00 EDT 2003
I guess my point would be that that neither ShYR or ADW have anything to say about whether the 'singing' is acapella or with instrumentation -- just like the English "sing" does not have that semantic information encoded within it. It may always refer to the 'voice' but that's all. I can't 'sing' a guitar or 'sing' a beat (cf., ADW) but that doesn't mean that some instrument is not accompanying my singing (so Ex 15.21).
In short, I don't think either YALLW and ADW tell us whether there is instrumental accompaniment or not. ADW in the LXX may refer to 'singing' and not 'playing' but it says nothing about whether someone is 'playing' with the 'singing' nor does it imply that there is no "playing" with the "singing". I don't think that information is encoded in the term.
Thoughts??
Brent Hudson
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On 9/17/2003 at 1:05 PM Ken Penner wrote:
>Hi Keith,
>
>In the LXX Psalter, YALLW translates Hebrew ZMR (one can ZMR using
>instruments); ADW translates Hebrew ShYR (vocal). The translators kept the
>two very distinct, in a way incompatible with your proposal.
>
>Ken Penner, Ph.D. (cand.), McMaster University
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>Keith wrote:
>
>> I've also looked into the pairing of YALLW and ADW in the LXX
>> (Psa. 32:15; 56:8; 67:5,33; 97:4; 103:33; 107:2; 143:9; and
>> 104:2). It seems to me that the terms are synonomous to a
>> real degree and, with Paul quoting often from the LXX in his
>> letters, perhaps this is what is going on in the Eph. 5:19
>> passage? I.e., if ADW is used in the sense of "sing w/
>> instrumental accompaniment" then even if YALLW primarily
>> meant w/o instruments at this time (which you question, I
>> understand), then where YALLW may restrict the practice of
>> instrumental accompaniment, ADW permits it?
>
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