A Black Mass is a play written by Amiri Baraka and performed at Proctor's Theatre in Newark, New Jersey in 1966. Baraka also recorded a version of the play with Sun Ra's Myth-Science Orchestra in 1968. The play is based on the religious doctrine of Yakub as taught by the Nation of Islam, and it describes the origin of white people according to this doctrine.

A Black Mass, written at the beginning of Baraka's involvement in black nationalism and the Black Arts Movement, was a turning point in the artist's career. Conceived as a form of "action literature", the play aimed to raise the political consciousness of Black Americans.[3] Baraka had learned of the Yakub myth from Malcolm X, whose assassination in 1965 likely provided further inspiration for the work.

This play is a visceral experience through the use of music and lighting, beginning in a "Jet blackness" accompanied with the "Music of eternal concentration and wisdom" composed by Sun Ra, which represent a prelapsarian state of non-threatening darkness.[5] Baraka inverts the idea that white symbolizes goodness and black symbolizes wickedness, so that the images of beauty and life are associated with blackness.[6] As Jacoub, the protagonist of the play, creates the "White Beast" that will become the ancestor to the white race, this peaceful blackness is soon contrasted with scenes of pandemonium, in which the room is filled with unsettling melodies and the sounds of banging and screeching (provided in the original production by Sun Ra's Myth Science Arkestra). To add to the audience's unease, the actors are not confined to the stage: the "Beast" leaps among the spectators, screaming "White! White! White!" and "Me! Me! Me!"[8]

The play ends on a call to arms against this newly created affront against nature:

    "And so Brothers and Sisters, these beasts are still loose in the world. Still, they spit their hideous cries. There are beasts in our world, Brothers and Sisters. There are beasts in our world. Let us find them and slay them. Let us lock them in their caves. Let us declare the holy war. The Jihad. Or we cannot deserve to live. Izm-el-Azam. Izm-el-Azam. Izm-el-Azam."

The final statement, which means "May God have mercy," is repeated continuously until the lights go dark.

{ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Black_Mass }

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakub_%28Nation_of_Islam%29#Story

Amiri Baraka & Sun Ra -- A Black Mass (1968)

The three Hebrew translations of the New Testament that I consulted are as follows:

Del: Franz Delitzsch's Hebrew translation of the New Testament was first published in 1877. The text is in the public domain, and is available online here. I used the edition included in Bibleworks. More information on Delitzsch may be found here and here.

S-G: Isaac Salkinson's translation of the New Testament into Hebrew was completed by Louis Ginsberg in 1886. Both scholars were Jewish converts to Christianity (more information here and here). The text is in the public domain and available online here.

BSI: In 1970 the Bible Society of Israel commissioned a translation of the New Testament into Modern Hebrew; it was published in 1977. The translation team included Joseph Atzmon, Yochanan Elichay and Bob Lindsey. The translation may be read at the Bible Society's website here.

Here, finally, is the text of Matthew 6:9-13:

Our Father which art in heaven,
Πάτερ ἡμῶν ὁ ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς•
Del/S-G/BSI: אָבִינוּ שֶׁבַּשָׁמַיִם


Hallowed be thy name.
ἁγιασθήτω τὸ ὄνομά σου•
Del/S-G: יִתְקַדַּשׁ שְׁמֶךָ
BSI: יִתְקַדֵּשׁ שִׁמְךָ


Thy kingdom come.
ἐλθέτω ἡ βασιλεία σου•
Del/S-G: תָּבֹּא מַלְכוּתֶךָ
BSI: תָּבוֹא מַלְכוּתְךָ


Thy will be done
γενηθήτω τὸ θέλημά σου,
Del/S-G/BSI: יֵעָשֶׂה רְצוֹנְךָ


in earth, as it is in heaven.
ὡς ἐν οὐρανῷ καὶ ἐπὶ γῆς•
Del: כַּאֲשֶׁר בַּשָׁמַיִם גַּם בָּאָרֶץ׃
S-G: בָּאָרֶץ כַּאֲשֶׁר נַעֲשָׂה בַשָּׁמָיִם׃
BSI: כְּבַשָּׁמַיִם כֵּן בָּאָרֶץ


Give us this day our daily bread.
τὸν ἄρτον ἡμῶν τὸν ἐπιούσιον δὸς ἡμῖν σήμερον•
Del: אֶת־לֶחֶם חוּקֵּנוּ תֵּן־לָנוּ הַיּוֹם׃
S-G: תֶּן־לָנוּ הַיּוֹם לֶחֶם חֻקֵּנוּ׃
BSI: אֶת לֶחֶם חֻקֵּנוּ תֵּן לָנוּ הַיּוֹם


And forgive us our debts,
καὶ ἄφες ἡμῖν τὰ ὀφειλήματα ἡμῶν,
Del: וּמְחַל־לָנוּ עַל־חֹבוֹתֵינוּ
S-G: וּסְלַח־לָנוּ אֶת־אַשְׁמָתֵנוּ
BSI: וּסְלַח לָנוּ עַל חֲטָאֵינוּ


as we forgive our debtors.
ὡς καὶ ἡμεῖς ἀφήκαμεν [maj. text ἀφίεμεν] τοῖς ὀφειλέταις ἡμῶν•
Del: כַּאֲשֶׁר מָחַלְנוּ גַּם־אֲנַחְנוּ לְחַיָּבֵינוּ׃
S-G: כַּאֲשֶׁר סֹלְחִים אֲנַחְנוּ לַאֲשֶׁר אָשְׁמוּ לָנוּ׃
BSI: כְּפִי שֶׁסּוֹלְחִים גַּם אֲנַחְנוּ לַחוֹטְאִים לָנוּ


And lead us not into temptation,
καὶ μὴ εἰσενέγκῃς ἡμᾶς εἰς πειρασμόν,
Del/BSI: וְאַל־תְּבִיאֵנוּ לִידֵי נִסָּיוֹן
S-G: וְאַל־תְּבִיאֵנוּ לִידֵי מַסָּה


but deliver us from evil:
ἀλλὰ ῥῦσαι ἡμᾶς ἀπὸ τοῦ πονηροῦ.
Del: כִּי אִם־תְּחַלְּצֵנוּ מִן־הָרָע
S-G: כִּי אִם־הַצִּילֵנוּ מִן־הָרָע
BSI: כִּי אִם חַלְּצֵנוּ מִן הָרָע


For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
Maj. text: Ὅτι σοῦ ἐστιν ἡ βασιλεία καὶ ἡ δύναμις καὶ ἡ δόξα εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας. Ἀμήν.
Del/S-G (in note): כִּי לְךָ הַמַּמְלָכָה וְהַגְּבוּרָה וְהַתִּפְאֶרֶת לְעוֹלְמֵי עוֹלָמִים אָמֵן׃

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