Necrotizing Fasciitis

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

For the zeal of Your house has consumed me, the reproach of Your reproachers has fallen on me.  Psalm 69:10 [Hebrew Bible]  Robert Alter Consumed – Do you know what necrotizing fasciitis is?  It’s flesh-eating disease.  I am reminded of this terrible condition when I read the Hebrew term used here, ʾakal.  This Hebrew word…

Fruit Salad (2)

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

“From every tree of the garden you may surely eat but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you may not eat, . . .” Genesis 2:17 Surely Eat – Did you enjoy those bananas yesterday?  When we examined achol tochel, we discovered that Eden is God’s design for Man’s pleasure.  It’s…