Maybe. I've grown up with the Bible and found the parody hilarious.
The original is in the Book of Daniel - Old Testament. Get a decent modern translation, New International Version or Today's English Version. I find the King James Version, while beautiful, is too much like reading Shakespeare for me to be able to engage with.
The repetition of the lists (in Daniel, it's a list of people - satraps, governors etc - and instruments like the harp, the zither, the lyre...) is a technique used in the time and place that the book was written, because originally it was passed on by oral tradition and this was a way to make it memorable to the people listening.
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Date: 2012-11-11 06:13 pm (UTC)The original is in the Book of Daniel - Old Testament. Get a decent modern translation, New International Version or Today's English Version. I find the King James Version, while beautiful, is too much like reading Shakespeare for me to be able to engage with.
The repetition of the lists (in Daniel, it's a list of people - satraps, governors etc - and instruments like the harp, the zither, the lyre...) is a technique used in the time and place that the book was written, because originally it was passed on by oral tradition and this was a way to make it memorable to the people listening.