Dromen over ijs: wat de Schrift zegt over kou en stilte

Ice appears in Scripture only a handful of times, and nearly always in the same argument: it is a thing we did not make and cannot account for. The question God asks about ice At the end of Job, after thirty-seven chapters of argument, God finally speaks — and what he does is ask questions. Dozens of them. Among the strangest: From whose womb comes the ice? Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens when the waters become…