예배학 자료 The Song of the Sea (Exodus 15:1-21): The Role of the People in the Temple Music

The Song of the Sea (Exodus 15:1-21): The Role of the People in the Temple Music

/ Do-Hwa Huh

One of the major themes of the Hebrew Scriptures-God leading Israel from slavery through the wilderness to freedom-is first of all a movement. In the first twenty chapters of the Book of Exodus, the dramatic movement of the individuals and the whole people is striking. The text itself shows a remarkable self-consciousness of this basic motif of movement, when the celebration of the crossing the Res Sea-the most dramatic of the Exodus events and literally the centerpiece of the narrative-turns out to be song and dance.

Many texts in the Hebrew Scriptures recalls the Exodus. In the Psalms and Prophets, God's post-Exodus relationship to Israel is often characterized by the Exodus experience itself. In considering the Exodus, one recognizes that this theme extends beyond those narratives dealing with the Exodus proper. So song and dance here can portray the movement from slavery to freedom as Exodus metaphor for many moments in life and many texts in the Hebrew Scriptures. At this sense, the song and dance from Exodus is an appropriate watershed between slavery and freedom, the past and the future. Treatment of the core Exodus narratives relates easily to both a song and dance portrayal of the story and the singing and dancing celebration of freedom as pictured in Exodus 15.  ... (중략)