5e6b, RFG : Meter Explains Bible, Peter's Marching Song read aloud
Channel: Brain Outy
Date: 2013-10-13

Continued from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J4xVuJgdOo

Fun video to follow up on 5e6, to 'sing out' how Peter's meter interactively creates an antiphonal marching song by interacting with Paul's text.  Maybe you'll come up with other configurations.  Oh:  add Paul's 'en oi echomen' in verse 6 (taking you to Paul's syllable=year 151AD) at the end of the song; or just before the last refrain.  Funny how its meaning changes when just left open like that.  I forgot to 'sing' it in the video.

Greek drama, use of repetition, search: http://www.google.com/search?q=the+use+of+repetition+in+classical+Greek+plays .  Useful is a 1999 dissertation by a guy named Pickering, 313718.pdf .  I've not yet gone through it.

I don't know if Peter's deliberately matching cadence for some well-known pattern then common in Greek or Roman culture.  Paul patterned Ephesians after Ion by Euripides, so maybe something by that playwright is used by Peter, too; but I'm not familiar enough with Greek drama cadence, to know.

Download Peter's meter:  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of this play on Paul, you need to read Paul's meter, replete with university and other websites explaining the relevant historical references:  http://www.brainout.net/Ephesians1REPARSED.doc (if you have Bibleworks fonts, which you can also download for free at http://www.bibleworks.com/fonts.html ).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 that passage VIA its style, as had Mary.