Why does it matter that Rachav hid Joshua’s spies under piles of flax? August 2020
Category: Nature in Biblical Metaphor
Wormwood and Self-Examination
Self justification can lead us down the road from chet to zadon, from carelessness to willful defiance, from rosh to la’anah.
Jonah and the Castor Bean
Jonah’s shade plant provides a graphic metaphor for the message of this Biblical book.
Botany, Prophecy, and Theology
(Botany determines Jeremiah’s theology; August 2009)
May your children be like olive trees
(Metaphor of the olive tree in Psalm 128; March 2007)