Bull’s Eye

See my affliction and suffering and forgive all my offenses.  Psalm 25:18  Robert Alter translation Offenses – hatta’t is the predominate Hebrew word for “sin.”  It is a picture of missing the mark, as if we each were shooting arrows at God’s target and missing the dead center bull’s eye.  Livingston notes the following insight:…

The Holy Spirit in the Tanakh

Whosoever the man who fears the LORD, He will guide him in the way he should choose.  Psalm 25:12  Robert Alter translation Guide – “But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will…