Read It Like This

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

For His wrath lasts but a moment; life results from His favor; in the evening, weeping may tarry, but in the morning there is joyful singing.  Psalm 30:6  Hebrew Bible  Chabad A moment – No vowels.  Remember that.  The absence of vowels leads to some interesting, and important, alternatives.  Note the Hebrew (pointed) translation from…

The Rest of Confusion

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

Thus says the Lord, “The people who survived the sword found grace in the wilderness—Israel, when it went to find its rest.” Jeremiah 31:2 To find its rest – Good luck with this one! The root rāgaʿ is a very difficult one to separate into its philological and semantic relationships. Although there is a development…