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  • Ontologically Fragile

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    Leave off from man, who has breath in his nostrils.  For of what account is he?  Isaiah 2:22  Robert Alter Of what – כִּֽי־בַמֶּ֥ה ki-va me(h).  Stringing together ki (for, but, thus, because, when, . . .), ba (in, at, with, away from, among, upon . . .), and me(h) (what, which, that, how), the…

  • Bite the Dust (2)

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    “By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, until you return to the ground, because from it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”  Genesis 3:19  NASB Dust – Remember this: The Hebrew word dakkāʾ means both “crushed” and “contrite.”  However, it has a second root spelling exactly the…