There may be as many as 39 trillion microbes living on and in us. That means we carry more microbial cells than we do human cells! These microbes cover nearly every surface of the human body that is exposed to the outside world.
Beauty, Lust, and the Wholly Other
Song of Songs enumerates this ‘otherness’ in the litanies of physical beauty and the poetic metaphors and similes used to describe them.
Kristallnacht and the Loss of the Old Testament
Von Rad foresaw the dangerous consequences of the Church cutting itself off from deep engagement with the Old Testament. Already in 1935 he remarked that ‘the links of the churches with Old Testament scholarship have been almost completely broken for more than one generation’…