ṣelem

  • Designated Representative

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.  Genesis 1:27  NASB Image – Emphasis!  Typically Hebraic, a repeated word acts as an exclamation in a language without punctuation.  So the verse repeats ṣelem (image) in order to emphasize the special quality of this…

  • Ghost in the Shell

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    “Surely every man walks about as a phantom; surely they make an uproar for nothing; he amasses riches and does not know who will gather them.”  Psalm 39:6  NASB Phantom– Perhaps we should credit David as the original author of “The Walking Dead.”  Certainly he paints that picture.  Men are but wisps of wind in the eternal night.  Their lives amount…