Old Testament Lore. Norman M. Chansky

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СКАЧАТЬ metonymy, simile, and parallelism. The plan of this collection is to begin poems with my liberal adaptation of a Biblical reference in italics.

      Readers are invited to view the biblical narrative through my lens and reflect them through their prism. The Bible is like a kaleidoscope, a treasure trove of many shapes and colors wandering about in a cylinder, in arrangements that captivate, in patterns which fascinate, reflecting motifs geometric, harmonious and symmetric. No matter the design one beholds, a people of beauty poignantly unfolds.

      Norman M. Chansky, PhD

      List of Abbreviations

      Gen Genesis

      Exod Exodus

      Jdt Judith

      Num Numbers

      Wis Wisdom of Solomon

      Deut Deuteronomy

      Sir Sirach

      Josh Joshua

      Bar Baruch

      Judg Judges1–3

      Esd Esdras

      Ruth Ruth

      Ep Jer Letter of Jeremiah

      1–2 Sam Samuel

      Sg Three Song of Three Young Men

      1–2 Kgs Kings

      Sus Susanna

      1–2 Chr Chronicles

      Bel Bel and the Dragon

      Ezra Ezra1–2

      Macc Maccabees

      Neh Nehemia

      Pr Man Prayer if Manasseh

      Esth Esther

      Tob Tobias

      Job Job

      Ps Psalm

      Prov Proverbs

      Eccl Ecclesiastes

      Song Song of Solomon

      Isa Isaiah

      Jer Jeremiah

      Lam Lamentations

      Ezek Ezekiel

      Dan Daniel

      Hos Hosea

      Joel Joel

      Amos Amos

      Obad Obadiah

      Jonah Jonah

      Mic Micah

      Nah Nahum

      Hab Habbakuk

      Zeph Zephania

      Hag Haggai

      Zech Zechariah

      Mal Malachi

      1 The Pentateuch

      The First Seven Days: Version One

      In the beginning God Created heaven and earth. The earth was unformed and dark. The Spirit of God Encircled the earth. And God Said “Let there be light.” And there was light. And God Saw that the light was good. Then God Separated the light from the darkness. And there was evening and morning on the first day. Gen I, 1–4. The earth was filled with water and God Made a Celestial Sphere and Separated waters beneath it and above it. God Called The Celestial Sphere “Heaven.” The second day ended. On the third day God Separated the waters beneath the Celestial Sphere and Called the dry land “Earth” which generated grasses, herbs, and all manner of trees. On the fourth day the Celestial Lights ( the sun, the moon, the stars, the planets) issued forth to illume the night and to mark the seasons. On the fifth day all manner of creatures inhabited the earth. On the sixth day God Created Humans to be merciful caretakers of Creation. On the seventh day, after all was finished, God Rested and Declared it Sabbath Ordained a holy day, to be kept every week as a joyous day of rest. Gen I, 6 ff.

      Day 1. In the Beginning there was The Sacred Source,

      Within which God, Perfect and Without Equal Exists.

      From that Source endless, dark, multicolored, formless space

      Arose and silently stretched its vastness

      And returned to surround the Sacred Source.

      Then did God Bless the expanding space.

      God Exists in Space and Space reflects God’s Infinity.

      Day 2. Then gasses formed and mixed rising vapors and prisms.

      Then God Gathered clusters of gasses

      And Cradled them and Pressed them closely and lovingly

      Until multicolored fires ignited

      And Scattered them to give birth to orbs of suns and stars.

      And the stars released oxygen into the cosmos.

      Each heavenly light shone God’s Dazzling Radiance and spread God’s Thermonuclear Warmth.

      Then did God Bless the suns and stars and all astral generations.

      Then did each fiery orb release many kinds of dust, each with its own electrical charges.

      Some dusts drifted aimlessly; others slammed into one another and formed mass;

      Some hardened into rocks; others melted into rivers of metal.

      God Exists in suns, stars, sands, rocks and they reflect God’s Creative Fires.

      Day 3. Then God Gathered and Combined emerging gasses and dusts

      And Formed planets, each with its own distance from the Sun;

      Each with its own motion:

      Each with its own orbit according to an ordained schedule.

      No planet falling; no planet failing; each held in place by gravity.

      Then were the planets and their seasons Blessed

      For they were all good to God.

      God Exists in planets whose rhythm reflect God’s Peerless Design.

      Day 4. Gasses spread and surrounded the Earth planet,

      Admitting Light so СКАЧАТЬ