Let Me Reiterate

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

Save me from the mire, that I not drown.  Let me be saved from my foes and from the watery depths.  Let the waters’ current not sweep me away and let not the deep swallow me.  Psalm 69:15-16a [Hebrew Bible]  Robert Alter Save me – Back to the beginning.  The metaphor of drowning is still…

Death by Drowning

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

Rescue me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck.  I have sunk in the slime of the deep, and there is no place to stand.  I have entered the watery depths, and the current has swept me away.  Psalm 69:2-3 [Hebrew Bible]  Robert Alter To stand – “Wade in the water” are…