Coincidentally, I have been reading Psalm 120/121 a lot recently. There is a verse in it which doesn't make sense to me.
"The sun shall not burn you by day, nor the moon by night."
I just don't get it, in what world is the moon's brightness bothering anyone? So I was thinking I would look up commentaries and try to find out if the original Hebrew is different (for example sometimes they will translate a demon's name as something abstract like terror pestilence etc). And I will still do that, but your article raises the possibility that maybe the moon was brighter in the past and people are remembering this.
There were several catastrophes in the 1,500 years after the Flood that came from the sky, including stones falling from Heaven, which were probably bolide meteor strikes. People were afraid of catastrophe from the heavens, and interpreted that as being struck by the sun or the moon. So perhaps that Psalm is not merely promising protection to God's people, but to the entire Earth as such events have been greatly diminished since about 1000 BC.
Coincidentally, I have been reading Psalm 120/121 a lot recently. There is a verse in it which doesn't make sense to me.
"The sun shall not burn you by day, nor the moon by night."
I just don't get it, in what world is the moon's brightness bothering anyone? So I was thinking I would look up commentaries and try to find out if the original Hebrew is different (for example sometimes they will translate a demon's name as something abstract like terror pestilence etc). And I will still do that, but your article raises the possibility that maybe the moon was brighter in the past and people are remembering this.
There were several catastrophes in the 1,500 years after the Flood that came from the sky, including stones falling from Heaven, which were probably bolide meteor strikes. People were afraid of catastrophe from the heavens, and interpreted that as being struck by the sun or the moon. So perhaps that Psalm is not merely promising protection to God's people, but to the entire Earth as such events have been greatly diminished since about 1000 BC.