Cease and Desist Orders

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

For my life is exhausted in sorrow and my years in sighing.  Through my crime my strength stumbles and my limbs are worn out.  Psalm 31:11 (Hebrew Bible)  Robert Alter Exhausted in sorrow – an excerpt. When he looked up, Nathan was gone. “Call him back.  Call him back.”  He almost shouted, but in the…

Bathsheba’s Bath

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

Now when evening came David arose from his bed and walked around on the roof of the king’s house, and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful in appearance.  2 Samuel 11:2 NASB Bathing – Inexplicable. Oh, did you think that what was strange about this verse was…