Today’s Word
World-weariness
How long, O Lord, shall I cry out, and yet You do not listen? I scream “outrage” to You, and You do not rescue! Habakkuk 1:2 Robert Alter Outrage – Taken directly from the Psalms, the prophet Habakkuk applies David’s words to his circumstances. We might do exactly the same. “How long?” That’s the real…
Generational Trauma
“Listen now, you rebels; shall we bring water for you out of this rock?” Then Moses raised his hand and struck the rock twice with his staff; and water came out abundantly, and the congregation and their livestock drank. Numbers 20:10b-11 NASB Struck – We know this story from Sunday school days. The ensuing punishment given…
First and Last
And the man and his wife were both naked, but they were not ashamed. Genesis 2:25 NASB Naked – Camile Paglia made this observation about the Bible: There are no sexual personae in the Bible, except among harlots. Biblical character is unitary and homogenous. Psychic splits are of the ‘whited sepulcher’ kind, where the self…
Masoretic Mistakes
But with an overflowing flood He will make a complete end of [a]its site, And will pursue His enemies into darkness. Nahum 1:8 NASB Of its site – As you know, virtually all contemporary translations of the Tanakh rely on the Tiberian Masoretic text. This Hebrew text from about the 10th century CE added vowel points and standardized the reading. …
Read It Again
who keeps faithfulness for thousands, who forgives wrongdoing, violation of His Law, and sin; yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, inflicting the punishment of fathers on the children and on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.” Exodus 34:7 NASB Yet by no means leave – This is a bit tricky, so pay attention. Here is…
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