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, MUSICAL DAUGHTERS OF JOB
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The Later End of Job's Life (after he had successfully resisted all of Satan's severe temptations) is recorded in Job 42:12-15
Later added to by an unknown Essene author in a document known as -- "The Testament of Job" WIKIPEDIA The pseudepigraphical Testament of Job (ca.100BCE-100AD) contains a conclusion which is believed to relate to the compiling of the hymnbook used by a Tharapaeutae community. Job gives one of his daughters "a cord" (a stringed instrument of some kind?)
"And she took on another heart—no longer minded
toward earthly things—
but ecstatically in the
angelic dialect,
sending up a hymn to God in accord with the style of the angels.
And as she
spoke ecstatically,
she allowed “The Spirit” to be on her garment." (T. Job 48:2-3)
Job’s other daughters likewise took on “the dialect of archons”, “the dialect of those and the “dialect of the cherubim” (T. Job 49:1-50:3). The “cherubim” are also mentioned Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice as blessing God (4Q403 1 2, 15, cf. 4Q405 20 2, 3). These angelic tongues appear to be coherent, intelligible.
There is parallel description of sung
prophecy among the Therapeutae in
Alexandria
by
Philo, but no mention there of angelic tongues. Another more commonly known about Dead Sea Scroll that uses the same "angelic Tongues" terminology is the one titled --- Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice The texts are fragmentary but appear to relate topraise tongues: [...] through the wonderful height [...] tongue of purity [...] gods (~yhla), seven [...] 4Q400 3 i, 1-2 ...Psalm of praise, on the tongue of the fou[rth]...[Ps]alm of [tha]nksgiving, on the tongue of the fifth...[Psalm] of exultation, on the tongue of the sixth...Psalm of [singing, on the to]ngue of the seventh of the [chief] pri[nces,] a powerful song [to the God] of ho[lines] with its se[ven] wo[nd]er[ful songs] 4Q403 1 i, 1-6 Proclaim his glory with the tongue of all who proclaim knowledge, his wonderful songs with the mouth of all who proclaim [him. For he is] God of all who sing {knowledge} for ever, and Judge in his power over all the spirits of understanding. 4Q403 1 i, 36-37...The tongue of the first will be strengthened seven times with the tongue of the second to him....{this is repeated for the series up to the seventh}... 4Q403 1 2, 27-30 It is not clear whether the angelic tongues are coherent, intelligible to man. However since Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice is itself related to sung praise at the Qumran community, there is a parallel with coherent angelic praise tongues in Testament of Job.
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NEXT WE'LL CONSIDER THE LATE START IN THE EARLY CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF NATIVITY SCENES! YOU'LL NO DOUBT BE SURPRISED TO LEARN THAT THE DEATHS OF THE EARLY CHRISTIANS WERE MORE LIKELY TO BE CELEBRATED THAN THEIR BIRTHS! For Dr. Bob Holt's account-- |