{"id":102,"date":"2013-03-21T16:36:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T16:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/?p=102"},"modified":"2016-02-17T19:21:19","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T00:21:19","slug":"hallel-psalms-and-christian-worship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/?p=102","title":{"rendered":"Hallel Psalms and Christian Worship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I contributed a piece as part of a recent effort to connect the body of psalms known as the Egyptian Hallel to modern Christian worship:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p>The psalter has presented readers with a multitude of ways to divide, categorize, and sort its collection of songs, poems, prayers, and hymns, but one of the oldest classifications is the small subgroup known as the hall\u0113l psalms. \u00a0The term hall\u0113l \u00a0is a Hebrew classification derived from a word meaning \u201cto praise\u201d or \u201cto cheer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>The Egyptian Hallel<\/b><\/p>\n<p>These psalms have a long tradition in both Jewish and Christian liturgical practice. \u00a0Among the more frequently used of the Hallel are the \u201cEgyptian Hallel\u201d (Psalms 113-118), so-named because of the description of the Exodus in Psalm 114 and their connection with the Passover Seder meal. It is interesting to point out that the Greek translation of these psalms all begin with the Greek transcription of the Hebrew verb allelouia meaning \u201cpraise the Lord,\u201d even though the Hebrew word is only present in the Psalms 113.[2] \u00a0This addition in the Greek translation of these psalms indicates that they were understood to comprise a subcategory already at an early stage of the development of the Psalter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/cardiphonia.org\/tag\/scott-redd\/\">Read more. . .\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I contributed a piece as part of a recent effort to connect the body of psalms known as the Egyptian Hallel to modern \n<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/?p=102\"> [...]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_excerpt -->","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sunergoi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/2013-03-21_1247.png?fit=309%2C171&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ESBE-1E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1001,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/1001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}