And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking about in the garden . . . Genesis 3:8a Robert Alter Walking – Sometimes our English translations cripple Hebrew intention. Verses become pedestrian instead of surprising. We read them as if they had nothing more to say than our simple-minded interpretation. We reduce the biblical…
They heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. Genesis 3:8 NASB The sound – You’ll remember Avivah Kushner’s brilliant exegesis of this unusual verse (CLICK HERE). She points out that…
I have no greater joy than this, to hear of my children walking in the truth. 3 John 4 NASB Walking – This Greek word is peripatounta. It combines two Greek words to produce the meaning, “to walk about.” This is a Greek substitution for a Hebrew idiom that encompasses all of our activities. “To…
