A PRIESTLY VIEW OF BIBLE ARITHMETIC: Deity's Regulative Aesthetic Activity Within Davidic Musicology
Document Type
Article
Keywords
Davidic Musicology, Biblical metaphors, tuning, musical fifths and fourths, Kabbalism, septimal comma, equal temperament, sheepfold, satan's comma, YHWH, names of God
Disciplines
Aesthetics | Arts and Humanities | Biblical Studies | History of Religions of Western Origin | Musicology | Other Music
Abstract
Reading arithmetic proportion in the bible via musical hermeneutics, this essay emphasizes the important role of music in predominantly aural cultures. Applying Patrick Heelan's non-distributive lattice logic to examples extracted from the bible, McClain applies the notion of regulative aesthetic activity to the Davidic musicology embedded in Bible mathology. Includes several illustrative diagrams.
Article Number
1022
Publication Date
2002
Recommended Citation
McClain, Ernest G., "A PRIESTLY VIEW OF BIBLE ARITHMETIC: Deity's Regulative Aesthetic Activity Within Davidic Musicology" (2002). Research Resources. 23.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/phil_research/23
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Aesthetics Commons, Biblical Studies Commons, History of Religions of Western Origin Commons, Musicology Commons, Other Music Commons
Comments
Citation information:
Ernest G. McClain, "A Priestly View of Bible Arithmetic: Deity's Regulative Aesthetic Activity Within Davidic Musicology" in: Babette Babich, ed., Hermeneutic Philosophy of Science. Van Gogh's Eyes. and God: Essays in Honor of Patrick A. Heelan. S.J. (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002), pp. 429-443.