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Robert Peters wrote:
>Well, I'm a native German, too, and I don't find "Ruhet wohl ihr heiligen
>Gebeine" offensive at all. It would be most interesting to learn what
>you criticize about these lines.
Actually, in another post I mentioned that "Ruhet wohl" was one of my
favorite Bach passages. To the extent, however, that the Passions purport
to retell the judicial lynching of a charismatic carpenter from Nazareth
and the use to which that tale has been put to justify hideous atrocities
over the following centuries, I find the texts offensive, in a way that
I don't find the Latin texts of the Mass and other Bach works. How much
less inflammatory is "Crucifixus etiam pro nobis sub Pontio Pilato,
passus et sepultus est"!
Walter Meyer
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