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Gabrieli, Giovanni judgment upon and (2 Sam 24; 1 Chr Giovanni Gabrieli (1554–1612) was an Italian com- 21). then instructs David to set up an to poser and organist, and pupil of his uncle Andrea YHWH on the threshing floor of Ornan. After do- Gabrieli. Taking up the post of second organist at ing so, David offers sacrifices pleasing to YHWH. St. Mark’s, , from 1585 he composed sacred The Chronicler appears to have shaped the 2 Sam polychoral works with instruments, making use of 24 census narrative into an etiology for the estab- the architectural and acoustic design of the basilica lishment of the future temple at Ornan’s threshing by creating antiphonal structures of voices and floor in (1 Chr 21 : 28–22 : 1; 2 Chr 3 : 1). brass. The most prominent among his liturgical Gad allegedly authored an account of David’s deeds works, many of which are based on biblical texts, (1 Chr 29 : 29), though the only known work attri- are collated in the two collections of Sacrae symphon- buted to Gad is a late manuscript, which is believed iae printed in 1597 and 1615, respectively, includ- to be a copy of a 1st-century CE pseudepigraphic ing the motets ad pastores ( : 10–11), work (Bar-Ilan). Diligam te Domine (Ps 17 : 1–2), Iubilate Deo (Ps 99 : 2), Bibliography: ■ Bar-Ilan, M., “The Date of the Words of Exaudi Deus (Ps 55 : 2–4), Cantate Domino (Ps 96 : 1– Gad the Seer,” JBL 109 (1990) 475–92. 2). Nicholas Pappani

Bibliography: ■ Arnold, D., Giovanni Gabrieli and the Music of the Venetian High Renaissance (London 1979). ■ Charteris, R., Giovanni Gabrieli (ca. 1555–1612): A Thematic Catalogue of his Gad (Place) Music with a Guide to the Source Materials and of his Gad is the territory of the Israelite . Mo- Vocal Texts (New York 1996). ses and the conquered Sihon, Amorite Andreas Bücker king of Heshbon, and took possession of his land, which lay in the region of Gilead, from the Arnon River north to wadi Jabbok (Num 21 : 21–25). ’s gave the northern portion of Sihon’s territory to the /Gabriel, Vision of tribe of Gad (Num 32). In general, the boundaries of Gad were: East = Ammonite territory; West = Jor- River; South = Beth-, Northeast of the Gad (Deity) Dead Sea; North = Mahanaim, though a strip of Gad (MT Gād) is a deity of fortune mentioned to- land extended along the Jordan up to the Sea of gether with a deity of fate (Mĕnî), who are ostensibly Chinnereth (Josh 13 : 24–28). worshipped illicitly by certain (Isa 65 : 11). Nicholas Pappani Nicholas Pappani See also /Meni Gad, Testament of /, Testaments of the Twelve Gad (Person) Gadamer, Hans-Georg 1. Son of The German philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer Gad is the seventh son of Jacob, born to him by (1900–2002) was the most important contributor to ’s maidservant (Gen 30 : 11). The bibli- philosophical hermeneutics, the theory of interpre- cal text records very little about Gad. The blessing tation, in the 20th century. Though Gadamer some- of Jacob (Gen 49 : 19) in the MT contains a carefully times made reference to the and the tradition crafted pun based on the consonants of Gad’s name of biblical interpretation, he did not directly engage (MT Gād). The passage foretells the misfortune Gad biblical hermeneutics or explicitely contribute to it. will encounter at the hands of troops/raiders, His work has had an important influence on the though he will not be overcome. Gad’s strength is interpretive practices of reading , and on highlighted in the blessing of Moses (Deut 33 : 20– the discussions of the theory of those practices. He 21), wherein Gad is described metaphorically as a is an important critic of the historical-critical ap- ravaging lion. proach to the Bible prominent in the 19th century. 1. Biography. Gadamer was born in Marburg 2. The Seer (1900) and educated in Breslau (now Wrocław in Po- Gad is identified as a (nābî 1 Sam 22 : 5) land), Freiburg, and Marburg. After finishing his and seer of David (ḥōzēh 1 Chr 21 : 9). Gad instructs doctoral dissertation on Plato under Paul Natorp, David to stop fleeing from and go to the land he soon came under the influence of the young of (1 Sam 22 : 5). Later, in response to David’s Martin Heidegger, with whom he studied and ha- military census of Israel, Gad pronounces YHWH’s bilitated with a work on Plato’s Philebus (1931).

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