Scorpion Ash Saves Woman’s Eyesight

His curved tail tipped with a poisonous barb, the scorpion signals peril in Scripture as in life. The word for scorpion (akrab) appears nine times in the Old Testament and five times in Greek (scorpios) in the New Testament. It occurs dozens of times in the rabbinic writings of the Talmud. We know from fossils that scorpions have inhabited the earth for at least 400 million years, making these creatures the most ancient of all terrestrial arthropods (invertebrate animals with jointed legs and body and external skeleton). They range in length from one-half inch to eight inches, and in color […]