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  • The End of the Beginning (2)

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    For Ezra had set his heart to seek the law of YHWH, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and ordinances   Ezra 7:10  JPS 1917 To seek – Ezra changed forever the way we interact with God.  Now we read instead of listen.  That wasn’t the only result of this monumental shift. …

  • Text and Tradition

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    It came about when the priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord had come up from the middle of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests’ feet were lifted up to the dry ground, that the waters of the Jordan returned to their place, and went over all its banks as before. …