Author: Skip Moen, Ph.D.

  • Silent Night

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    For God alone my soul waits in silence, from Him comes my salvation.  Psalm 62:1  ESV (English text) Silence – “Silent night, holy night.  All is calm.  All is bright.”  These familiar lines demonstrate the time when silence is good.  But the Hebrew word dumiyyah can also be used in a negative sense.  For example,…

  • Speculative Practices

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    Now I praise you because you remember me in everything, and hold firmly to the traditions, just as I delivered them to you.  1 Corinthians 11:2  NASB Traditions – Now that we have some justification for understanding paradoseis as the oral Torah, we might ask, “What practices could Paul have been speaking about?”  Paul doesn’t…

  • What Isn’t the Law

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    Now I praise you because you remember me in everything, and hold firmly to the traditions, just as I delivered them to you.  1 Corinthians 11:2  NASB Traditions – Do you find Paul’s praise a bit misplaced?  After all, he’s writing to the Corinthians!  These are the people whose orderliness in worship is a mess,…

  • Untranslatable

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    For God alone my soul waits in silence, from Him comes my salvation.  Psalm 62:1  ESV (English text) Alone – What does it mean to wait on God alone?  We probably think this means that we are waiting for God and no one else.  He must answer.  No one else will do.  That’s at least…

  • Missing the Introduction

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    To the choirmaster.  According to Jeduthun.  A psalm of David.  Psalm 62:1 (Hebrew Text) Jeduthun – Most translations of the psalms put the “introduction” of the text in tiny letters or completely ignore these “preliminary” words.  This is not the case in the Hebrew text.  The introduction is an essential part of knowing what the…

  • Your Wrath Comforts Me

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    I am the man who has seen affliction because of the rod of His wrath.  He has driven me and made me walk in darkness and not in light.  Lamentations 3:1-2  NASB I am the man – Jeremiah was a righteous man.  He was obedient to YHWH’s will.  He accepted the consequences of his divine…