5e7, RFG : Meter Explains Bible, Peter's Song Analyzed
Channel: Brain Outy
Date: 2013-10-15

Video starts with a quick review of the Greek to refresh your mind on the cleverness of the cadence, and then launches into key hermeneutical points to illustrate the extreme value of the meter, for interpreting the text.  If we all learned to memorize Scripture as did our ancient forebears, this would be very easy.  Since we didn't learn it as kids, going through this analysis will be something of a slog.

This video is continued from:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wxc0uSdmZ4

Download the interleaved (Paul's Eph 1:3-14 with 1Peter1:1-12) song with its metered translation, here:  http://www.brainout.net/PeterMeterSongWithTrans.pdf .  It's only two pages, currently.  Since 1Peter 1:1-12 is metered, the final version will be much longer.

Download Peter's meter  (only the Greek, all of 1Pet1:1-12):  http://www.brainout.net/1Peter1meter.pdf .

To get the most out of this play on Paul, you need to read Paul's meter, replete with university and other websites explaining the relevant historical references:  http://www.brainout.net/Ephesians1REPARSED.doc (if you have Bibleworks fonts, which you can also download for free at http://www.bibleworks.com/fonts.html ).  PDF version:  http://www.brainout.net/Eph1DecreeSyllablesREPARSED.pdf .

You'll also need to watch at least some of the Psalm 90 videos on Daniel 9, which begin here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRz__1NmABs&list=PLFF2856603C945631&index=27 .  It's faster and easier to just download the Daniel document in the video description, then read through it to see his style.  Both Paul and Peter talk back to Daniel 9 VIA its style -- which I call 'tagging' -- as Mary had done, in the Magnificat.