{"id":510,"date":"2020-10-21T02:41:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T02:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/?p=510"},"modified":"2020-10-21T02:41:51","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T02:41:51","slug":"the-impact-of-exile-and-the-bible-in-music-and-other-popular-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/2020\/10\/21\/the-impact-of-exile-and-the-bible-in-music-and-other-popular-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"The Impact of Exile, and the Bible in Music and other Popular Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Psalm 137 stood out to me out of the other psalms we had to read for today\u2019s class. Line 9 of psalm 137 is rather barbaric and cruel for a song in the Bible. The context of psalm 137 is the writer sings about the ones who plundered them mocking him to sing a song of their land. The song is very vengeful, the writer speaks about wanting to kill the children of his enemy and how it will be a joyous occasion.<\/p>\n<p>The Melodians song, \u201cRivers of Babylon,\u201d is an adaptation of psalm 137, and has a very different tone than reading the text without any music. The Melodians version has a somber and depressing tone to it while psalm 137 reads as a very aggressive and hateful passage. It\u2019s ok for the Melodians to adapt and edit out parts of a psalm to make it their own, that\u2019s part of their creative freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psalm 137 stood out to me out of the other psalms we had to read for today\u2019s class. Line 9 of psalm 137 is rather barbaric and cruel for a song in the Bible. The context of psalm 137 is the writer sings about the ones who plundered them mocking him to sing a song [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9196906,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9196906"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":511,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions\/511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}