The Genesis of David

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Psalm 51:10 NASB Create – First let’s correct the syntax. The emphasis of this verse is not “create.” It is leb tahor, a “heart clean.” But even this needs a bit of explanation. The root taher is not about “spiritual”…

Who Are We?

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

A Psalm of Asaph.  Truly God is good to Israel, to those who are of a clean heart.  Psalm 73:1  Hebrew World Clean heart – Christians are quite familiar with Paul’s argument in Romans that those who are cleansed by Yeshua are included in the true Israel.  But Paul didn’t originate that idea.  The psalmist…