A Moral Blow

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her by the roadside and said, “Come now, let me sleep with you.”  Genesis 38:16a  NIV Sleep with you – Okay, so we’re past the scandalous nature of this event.  We think of it religiously as if it’s about inequity, and, of course, ultimately, about the…

Half of the Story

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her by the roadside and said, “Come now, let me sleep with you.”  Genesis 38:16a  NIV Sleep with you – Of course, the Hebrew doesn’t use our modern circumlocution.  The Hebrew text reads, “let me come in to you,” perhaps a bit too graphic for our…