| | Annals of Theology, continued:"Teach us to
number our days."-- Psalm 90, verse 12
"At any time, God can cancel a life. 'So teach us to number our days,'
as the King James Version has it, 'that we may apply our hearts unto
wisdom.'....
The ancient Hebrew word for the shadowy underworld where the dead go, Sheol,
was Christianized as 'Hell,' even though there is no such concept in
the Hebrew Bible. Alter prefers the words 'victory' and 'rescue' as
translations of yeshu'ah, and eschews the Christian version,
which is the heavily loaded 'salvation.' And so on. Stripping his
English of these artificial cleansers, Alter takes us back to the
essence of the meaning. Suddenly, in a world without Heaven, Hell, the
soul, and eternal salvation or redemption, the theological stakes seem
more local and temporal: 'So teach us to number our days.'" Today's numbers from the Pennsylvania Lottery:  which, being interpreted, is 5/10 and 7/24. Selah. |
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