An Egyptian Flood

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

When Noah was 600 years old, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the underground waters erupted from the earth, and the rain fell in mighty torrents from the sky. Genesis 7:11 NLT In mighty torrents – Well, you won’t find anything like the second half of this verse in the Hebrew. The…

Rearranging Bricks

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

“Let us, then, go down and confound their speech there, so that they shall not understand one another’s speech.” Genesis 11:7 (JPS) Confound – God has a real sense of humor, even when it comes to terribly important events. I would say that God has an Englishman’s sense of humor; that sort of dry wit…