We can accept that religious knowledge is variable throughout history and that, if we bring each generation's wisdom to the table, we can probably find more satisfying answers than rote recitations of texts.
On Thursday, the House Republicans will kick off the 112th Congress with a round-robin recitation of the text of the Constitution.
One of her favorite encores was the spiritual "Deep River," and there was something uncannily natural about her recitation of the text: "Deep river, my home is over Jordan / Deep river, Lord, I wanna cross over into camp ground".
It is concluded that "the location of the tonic in the recitation of a text written originally to be read as written may proceed mainly from principles of lexicogrammar" (p. 216).
It and the related notions of Bacchic frenzy, madness, and possession are invoked repeatedly almost from the start of the dialogue (228b), in connection with Phaedrus' allegedly inspiring recitation of Lysias' text (234d1 6), and as inspiring Socrates's two speeches (237a7 b1, 262d2 6, 263d1 3).
In addition to marking vowels, the Tiberian system also uses cantillation marks, which serve to mark word stress, semantic structure, and the musical motifs used in formal recitation of the text.
Cantillation, in music, intoned liturgical recitation of scriptural texts, guided by signs originally devised as textual accents, punctuations, and indications of emphasis.
She also sang with a clarity of diction that made her introductory recitation of the texts superfluous.
In 1983 Mr. Putnam began doing recitations of the text from memory at the South Street Seaport Museum, which is near the author's boyhood home.
As the first half of the performance built in intensity, Young moved on to faster and faster recitations of raga text, often matched in an impressive rhythmic unison by Choi.
This would not prevent the recitation of its paraliturgical texts by the parturient woman or on her behalf by her companions.
