The Moral Outcast

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

My wounds grow foul and fester because of my foolishness.  Psalm 38:5  NASB Wounds/ foolishness – Umbrellas.  That’s how you must think when it comes to Hebrew vocabulary.  Big umbrellas.  Lots of space underneath.  Lots of places for words to shift and change and rearrange.  And all that moving around means we might find something important in the…

The Best Wounds

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses.  Proverbs 27:6 NIV Can be trusted – I’m not a big fan of the NIV.  For me, it has too much implicit theology, especially in the New Testament.  In this particular verse, Robert Alter’s criticism of the translator’s need to explain rather than…