by Wendy Widder | Mar 30, 2013 | Easter, Pain
The first pre-Easter Saturday was a black day. For the dear ladies who followed Jesus, the horror of Friday had been even worse than their worst nightmares. Jesus was dead; they’d watched the crucifixion with their own eyes. He was buried; they’d watched Nicodemus and...
by Wendy Widder | Mar 23, 2013 | Daniel 5, How to read the Bible, The Book of Daniel
One of the unusual features of the story of Belshazzar and the handwriting on the wall (Dan 5) is the amount of space it devotes to people talking. There are three unusually long speeches by three different characters. The first is by the queen (vv. 11-12), who is...
by Wendy Widder | Mar 3, 2013 | Aramaic, Daniel 5, The Book of Daniel
Belshazzar may not have finished swallowing his first sip of wine from God’s goblets when a disembodied hand appeared, writing on the palace wall. The narrator bothers to tell us that the hand was opposite the lampstand. Maybe he wants to explain why the king could...
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