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Thread #150344   Message #3502558
Posted By: Ed T
12-Apr-13 - 09:43 PM
Thread Name: BS: Bob Dylan theologian?
Subject: RE: BS: Bob Dylan theologian?
Nose-theology song, and Bob Dylan

Dylan has a rather special kind of nasal breathing through his nostrils that results in the characteristic buzzing sound when he sings. It's kinda like his nose or nasal cavity is burning, smok'in and on fire.

God's anger is shown by His burning nose in the Hebrew Bible. His life is given by breath from His nostrils, His power is blasted out in nose-smoke. Yahweh's "anger" burns: Which is actually burning is His nose.
His nose burns at Moses. Exodus 4:14 is the first use of the idiom in the Hebrew Bible, and Yahweh's nose is burning at the mediator.   Yahweh's nose will burn at His people (Exodus 32:10), and Moses, the one against whom Yahweh's nose first burned, will stand to intercede, to pacify Yahweh's nose.

I am not saying that Bob is connected in anyway to God - 'cause he isn't. But, this may be the connection between God, Bob and theology and music that could confuse some?

(BTW, Bob did once say, in a song, that God gave names to all the animals, in the beginning. But, he did not say in which language they were named or when specifically? :)


""You can pick your friends,
and you can pick your nose,
but you can't pick your friend's nose.
That rule doesn't apply around here"".
Quote, from Jeremy