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Isaiah, Chapter 3

This chapter shows a stark prophetic judgment against Jerusalem & Judah. It’s centered on the total collapse of civic order, leadership, & social stability as a consequence of national rebellion. God announces the removal of ALL societal pillars (including essential food supplies, wise elders, skilled judges, & military defenders), leaving the nation to be governed by the immature & incompetent. The chapter ends with a direct rebuke of the haughty “daughters of Zion,” whose arrogant displays of extreme wealth & luxury will be replaced by public humiliation, captivity, & desolation, leaving the once proud capital stripped of its glory & sitting ruined on the ground. Let’s get into it!

See now, the Lord, the Lord Almighty, is about to take from Jerusalem & Judah bout supply & support: all supplies of food & all supplies of water, the hero & warrior, the judge & prophet, the soothsayer & elder, the captain of 50 & man of rank, the counselor, skilled craftsmen & clever enchanter.

I’ll make boys their officials; mere kids will govern them. People will oppress each other. Man against man, neighbor against neighbor. The young will rise up against the old, the base against the honorable.

A man will seize one of his brothers at his dad’s home, & say, “You’ve a cloak, you be our leader. Take charge of this heap of ruins!” But that day, he’ll cry out, “I’ve no remedy. I’ve no food or clothing in my house. Don’t make me the leader of the people.”

Jerusalem staggers; Judah is falling. Their words & deeds are against the Lord, defying his glorious presence. The look on their faces testifies against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don’t hide it. Woe to them! They’ve brought disaster upon themselves.

Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they’ll enjoy the fruit of their deeds. Woe to the wicked! They’ll be paid back for what their hands have done. Youths oppress my people, women rule over them. O my people, your guides lead you astray. They turn you from the path.

The Lord takes his place in court. He rises to judge the people. The Lord enters into judgment against the elders & leaders of his people. “It’s you who have ruined my vineyard. The plunder from the poor is in your houses. What do you mean by crushing my people & grinding the faces of the poor?” declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.

The Lord says, “The women of Zion are haughty, walking along with outstretched necks, flirting with their eyes, tripping along with mincing steps, with ornaments jingling on their ankles. Therefore, the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the women of Zion. The Lord will make their scalps bald.”

In that day the Lord will snatch away their finery: the bangles & headbands & crescent necklaces, the earrings & bracelets & veils, the headdresses & ankle chains & sashes, the perfume bottles & charms, the signet rings & nose rings, the fine robes & the capes & cloaks, the purses & mirrors, & the linen garments & tiaras & shawls.

Instead of fragrance, there will be a stench. Instead of a sash, a rope. Instead of well-dressed hair, baldness. Instead of beauty, branding. Your men will fall by the sword, your warriors in battle. The gates of Zion will lament & mourn; destitute, she’ll sit on the ground.

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https://youtube.com/live/YrFJwbMSrC0?is=QTEXwBG0asNNznPr

Some notes about about recent work on building a new interface for the ancient Hebrew Classics: https://andreklein.net/rebuilding-the-reading-experience-for-a-3000-year-old-text #hebrew #tanakh #poetry #verse

I'm working on an original translation of the Bible. My goal is to let the words of scripture guide my translation rather than reading a favored theology into the text. As the saying goes, "Where the Bible speaks, we speak, where it is silent, we are silent." In addition to being a formal equivalence, I try to preserve original idioms (with clarification in the footnotes), poetic and metaphorical language, and distinct synonyms (ie. land/ground/dust) where possible.

The text is available under a Creative Commons license. And it is available at a website, and as an ebook, though it is still incomplete.

Please support my translation work:
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#Bible #Tanakh #Torah #Religion #Christianity #Christian #Church #ChurchOfChrist #Judaism #Jewish #MessianicJudaism #LGBTQIA2S #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #LGBT #Transgender #Nonbinary #Agender #CreativeCommons #CCBY #FOSS #Translation #Language #Literature #Books #English #Hebrew #Aramaic #Greek

Please help me descend to the depths of nerdery. At least Biblical nerdery. I'm writing a translation of the Bible and trying to crowdfund this to make it my job for the next few years to translate the Bible.

I think we can all agree that among biblical translators there are far too few furry, nonbinary, tabletop gamers and far too much bias.

This translation will be released for free under a CC-BY 4.0 license when it is finished. (It's not like Zondervan or Nelson is going to be interested in an *unbiased* translation anyway.) You can use it for sermons or bible studies without limit, fill it with notes, share it with friends, or even change the parts you don't like. It's yours, do whatever you want with it.

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#Bible #Scripture #Translation
#Christian #Christianity #Church
#ProgressiveChristianity
#Judaism #Jewish
#Tanakh #Tanach #Torah
#LGBTQIA2S #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #LGBT
#Transgender #Agender #Nonbinary
#Furry #FurryArt #FurryFandom
#TTRPG #DnD #DnD5e

I could not love this guy, Dan Maklelan, more. All his videos are great, and his understanding of the #Tanakh (the #Hebrew #Bible) is really quite solid. And he knows #hypocrisy when he sees it.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFI0bUdPKKH/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Mes écoutes de la semaine du 02 December 2024 :

#DominiqueA, #ShaneAspegren, #TheCure, #Diabologum, #DivisionNuit, #DivisionNuit, #EinstuerzendeNeubauten, #GeggyTah, #GodspeedYouBlackEmperor, #GogolBordello, #HisNameIsAlive, #HumanError, #Hyperculte, #PhilippeKaterine, #LaTène, #LSR #Kid606, #Migala, #PointeDuLac, #Seefeel, #Tanakh, #TheCatsMiaow, #TheFrankAndWalters, #ThousandYardStare, #ToutDebord, #TristwchYFenywod, #VoxLow, #SanaeYamada,

#music #disque #reco

Getting ready for #tanakhyomi with #exploringjudaism https://www.exploringjudaism.org/learning/tanakh-yomi/ a few chapters a day of a biblical book from the Prophets (N'vi'im) section of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh), and later from the Writings (K'tuvim) section, keep up with the weekly Torah portion daily or just all on Shabbat... And in a year we'll finish the whole #tanakh
@rabbimarkiz

Among those murdered on 7 Oct were Moshe Ohayon and his son Eliad, defending Ofakim from Hamas onslaught. He was, among other things, the head of Project 929, which seeks to make Torah accessible for all Jews regardless of religious education and observance. Each chapter of Tanakh has essays, poems, artwork, and even videos to expand on the text from every imaginable direction. First, the project was in Hebrew, and then they created an English version, with all original content, not translations. I discovered the app (also website) years ago and have found it meaningful.

Moshe Ohayon was a bridge-builder and peacemaker whose life was dedicated to bringing people together across Israeli society regardless of ethnicity, religion, or religious observance. May his memory be a blessing.

#Torah #October7 #7Oct #Mazeldon #Israel #Tanakh

https://www.929.org.il/pages/aboutEN.html

https://www.timesofisrael.com/moshe-ohayon-52-social-activist-ceo-of-929-torah-project/

Becoming obvious to me there's a lot of biblically-illiterate users on Masto. Doesn't matter if you believe or disbelieve; many Jews are professed atheists also.

As is said in any court of law; "ignorance is no excuse."

#tanakh #oldtestament #illiteracy #Genesis12:3

If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.-George Orwell

Josie Riesmann (@abrahamjoseph ) has startet out on a (probably) highly accurate and really highly funny webcomic to tell the #Genesis of the Book of Genesis.

#bibel #tanakh #historyofthebible #historyofreligion #history #religion

You can read it here:
https://abrahamriesman.com/genesis-of-genesis

Just stumbled across what might be my new favorite episode of the #JudaismUnbound podcast in which guest Wendie Lash and host @lexaphus talked about the idea of the book of #SongIfSongs as a kind of spiritual foreplay for the #HighHolidays.

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9xVGFaRGFfTg/episode/NjMwNGQyMWQtZWMyZi00ODcyLThlMGYtOGY5Y2JjYWY1MWZh?ep=14

#Mazedon #Jewish #Jewdiverse #Tanakh #Judaiam

Quote of the day (from episode #399 of #JudaiamUnbound)

"Ezekiel is the Steven Spielberg of the Babylonian exile" - Dan Libenson

Tagging: @lexaphus

#Mazeldon #Jewdiverse #Ezekiel #Tanakh

https://www.judaismunbound.com/fall-2023-courses/p/diverse-theologies

I finally decided which class I'm enrolling in for the Fall at the #Unyeshiva --- God? Gods? Goddesses? Godexes?: Diverse Theologies in #Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) taught by Tamar Kamionkowski. I'm really looking forward to it.

P.S. For anyone who wants to take their Jewish learning to the next level, I strongly recommend Unyeshiva (started by Dan & @lexaphus at #JudaismUnbound). They have some amazing classes this semester.

#Mazeldon #Jewdiverse

the idea of my namesake as an autistic dude who has no interest in participating in the absolution of bullies and abusers, who is "grieved unto death" over the loss of a giant plant, who struggled with haShem and is RIGHT ... it makes my name and my identity fit me more than I knew when I first chose them

#yonah #jonah #yomKippur #tanakh #ketuvim #neurodivergent #autistic #neurodivergentJudaism @actuallyautistic @mazeldon

my girlfriend found this, and it's ... indescribable, what this means to me. my Hebrew name is Yonah, bc I felt so drawn to him as a biblical character, and yet I wasn't fully able to put my connection to him into words, until this article

"We know why Jonah runs because the prophet himself tells us at the end of the text. Jonah objects that God spares the Assyrians the consequences of their actions. They have done evil and they do not deserve to retain their status as the capital of the Assyrian Empire. Jonah is not particularly impressed with the fasting and the public repentance; but he knows that God finds such behavior acceptable and averts their doom. If Jonah knows that there will be no real change and that Nineveh’s might and cruelty will ride roughshod over his people, why should he prophecize to them? Why do they not deserve justice?"

#yonah #jonah #yomKippur #tanakh #ketuvim #neurodivergent #autistic #neurodivergentJudaism @actuallyautistic @mazeldon

https://www.yeshivatmaharat.org/post/finding-justice-in-jonah

I got a letter!

#Sefaria, a digital library of Jewish literature, is celebrating its 10 year anniversary by letting folks claim a Hebrew letter from the Torah. I know very little about #Hebrew so why not learn about what the letter means, as well as what the word in the verse means. (1/5)

#abjad #languagelearning #etymology #Judaism #tanakh #genesis

I picked up a JPS #Tanakh in like-new condition for dirt cheap so I’m vibin’. Wanted something physical as I explore things.

The wildest thing was seeing an original hardcover copy of the JPS #Torah – 1st Edition from 1962! The cover was worn but it was neat nonetheless. #Judaism

Abib 18 (2023-04-08): Today, 2,000 years ago, the #Messiah resurrected on the third day as was prophesied. It was a weekly #Sabbath / #Shabbat, for the Messiah is the Master of Sabbath/Shabbat. It was not on the first day of the week, not on #Easter.

He left his tomb on Sabbath day and have shown himself to countless people who did not recognise he has resurrected. Just like how it is today!

Rejoice! For the Messiah has conquered the grave! #HeIsRisen!

#ResurrectionDay #HappyResurrectionDay

#Remnant #Torah #RenewedCovenant #TaNaKh #Scripture #Bible #Scriptures #haDerech #TheWay #Messianic #Christianity

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* By: Crystal A Murray
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* License: CC-BY-NC-SA 2.0 (retrieved on 2023-04-08)

Happy #Passover and the #FeastOfUnleavenedBread

#ChagHaPesach #חגהפסח #Pesach #ChagHaMatzot #חגהמצות #Matzot #UnleavenedBread

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* Abib 14 falls on April 04, 2023
- Passover meal

* Abib 15 falls on April 05, 2023
- Day 1 of Unleavened Bread
- A high sabbath (no work)
- 09:00 crucifixion
- 15:00 death

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Photo:
* By: Tim Sackton
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* License: #CCBYSA2 (retrieved: 2023-04-05 14:17:40 ACT)

#Torah #Tanakh #HaDerech #TheWay #הדרך #RenewedCovenant #Bible #Christianity #Messianic #HolyWeek #Philippines #Ophir #Israel #Remnant

One’s Jewish lineage, or yiches, can be serious business:but should it be? Our deep dive into the meaning of yiches, and its tension today. https://momentmag.com/jewish-word-yiches/

#Religion #Judaism #Spirituality #Clergy #Faith #Torah #Bible #Tanakh

@mazeldon

Jewish women Bible commentators - Adele Berlin. She has written these books, and more

Zephaniah, Anchor Bible Series, Vol. 25A

The JPS Bible Commentary: Esther

Lamentations: A Commentary, Westminster John Knox Press

#Tanakh #Bible #Jewish #Jewishwomen #womenauthors

@mazeldon

Jewish women Bible commentators:

Yairah Amit
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The book of Judges: The Art of Editing, 1992

History and Ideology: An Introduction to Historiography in the Hebrew Bible (1999)

Hidden Polemics in Biblical Narrative (2000)

https://merrimackvalleyhavurah.wordpress.com/2022/07/28/jewish-women-commentators-on-torah-and-tanakh/

#Tanakh #Bible #Jewish #Jewishwomen #womenauthors

Reading Biblical Narratives: Literary Criticism and the Hebrew Bible (2001).

"Why did #God create #angels (malachim?)"
Almost no one asks it. The #Torah, and indeed the entire #Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) doesn't address it. They just take it for granted that everyone in the ANE (ancient near east) knew that angels existed.
What were you told about this issue?

https://merrimackvalleyhavurah.wordpress.com/

@judaism @mazeldon

All forms of #Judaism have taught that we have an immortal #soul. But what precisely is it, how does the soul work? Our #Torah and #Tanakh don't go into detail. More thought is found in our oral law, but there is no unified understanding of it. It is only among kabbalists or the philosophical rationalists (e.g. Maimonides, Gersonides) that we find detailed discussions. For a Jewish mystical view of the soul let's see ->

https://merrimackvalleyhavurah.wordpress.com/2022/01/10/what-is-the-soul-a-kabbalistic-view/

@judaism
#Mazeldon #Jewish #Judaism #Jews

Why do many people today look for gender sensitive #translations of the Bible? No, this has nothing to do with politics or social views; nothing woke or anti-woke. Rather, for a long time our #Bible often wasn't translated correctly., e.g. many verses applicable to both women and men were often mistakenly translated as towards men only. David Stein explains how we create better translations -

https://merrimackvalleyhavurah.wordpress.com/2018/06/26/gender-and-bible-translations/

@judaism
@mazeldon
#Mazeldon #Jewish #Tanakh #Gender

How do we choose which English #translation of the Bible to choose from? Here's a resource explaining the options, from the (outdated) #KingJamesVersion to newer ones from #JPS, #ArtScroll, #AnchorBible, #EverettFox, #RobertAlter, and more

https://merrimackvalleyhavurah.wordpress.com/tanakh-study/english-bible-translations/

@judaism
@mazeldon
#Mazeldon #Jewish #Tanakh #Bible #Scripture

The Books of Maccabees tell the Hanukkah story through excitement, intrigue, and bloodshed: so why aren’t they in the Hebrew Bible? https://momentmag.com/bible-edit-hanukkah/

#Bible #Biblestudy #Theology #Jewish #Judaism #Tanakh #Hanukkah #Chanukah