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I heard the Matthäus-Passion and could understand the lyrics I wept Which parts made you weep?
by ktRolster 10y ago
I heard the Matthäus-Passion and could understand the lyrics I wept
Which parts made you weep?
- Bud 10y agoI would make a list, but it'd be about 25 items long. ;) Start with "Eli, Eli, lama sabachtani" and "Wahrlich, dieser ist Gottes Sohn gewesen" and "Und von der sechsten Stunde an ward eine Finsternis über das ganze Land bis zu der neunten Stunde" and...see? I can't stop once I get started.
- irrational 10y agoExcept "Eli, Eli, lama sabachtani" are Greek transliterations of Hebrew/Aramaic so... what does that sound like to you in German?
- stan_rogers 10y agoThat's translated inline in the original Greek, and in every subsequent translation. One does not need to understand the Aramaic, just to be familiar with the verse containing it.
- gumby 10y agoSo I didn't really know the Jesus story, just that it was when one of their gods was killed. But the text makes it a human event in which his friends suffer. It even begins with him being a bit of a prig as his acolytes express their unhappiness. But then he himself expresses pathos (Meine Seele ist betr ̧bt bis an den Tod, bleibet hie und wachet mit mir.) The story becomes unfair. I really felt the unfairness of his trial. It's a much more sympathetic story than, say, Plato's recitation of the death of Socrates, who comes off as a jerk.