The Inner Form of Poetry

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside still waters. Psalm 23:2 Hebrew World He leads me – Such a familiar verse requires much more careful examination. It’s just too easy to breeze past these still waters, imagining that there isn’t much more to the sentence than its obvious imagery of…

David’s Ark

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

He leads me beside the still waters Psalm 23:2 Still – Actually, the Hebrew word here isn’t “still,” although that could be one of the nuances.  The word is menuhot (plural) from nuah (to rest, to repose, to be quiet).  It is the same root that produces Noah, the man who brought rest to the world (although,…