So joyful to sing this song with Pastor Stacy, Jann, and others at HerChurch this past Sunday, the fourth Sunday of Advent. (HerChurch is a church located on Portola Drive in San Francisco--it shares the building of Ebenezer Lutheran Church, ELCA.)
I love the new words to "Angels We Have Heard on High" and the photos/art that accompany the words in the YouTube video above.
At Christmas we celebrate the birth of Jesus, God Incarnate, who is associated with the Holy Wisdom figure in the Hebrew Scriptures. Wisdom is Hochmah in Hebrew, a feminine noun, and translated Sophia in Greek.
When John the Baptist in prison sent his disciples to Jesus to ask, "Are you the Messiah? Who are you?" Jesus gave a lengthy answer ending with "Yet Hochmah (Wisdom) is vindicated by her deeds" (Matthew 11:19 and Luke 7:35).
Bible scholars study the connection between Jesus and the Hochmah tradition, also found in the opening lines of the Gospel of John.
Thus my friend
RevDr Jann Aldredge-Clanton
has written new words to "Angels We Have Heard on High" to celebrate Jesus' birth as the coming of Hochmah into the world. Listen to it on YouTube and expand your understanding of who Jesus was and is... truly God coming to earth in human form.
Read more about the understanding of Jesus as represented by the Hochmah (Wisdom of God) in the Hebrew Scriptures by looking at the scholarship of Dr. Lareta Finger.
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