Fun Fact

My continued Daniel 5 exegesis this morning has revealed to me that I had taken some things for granted and it was not, in fact, a "ghostly hand" which wrote on the wall, but "the fingers of a man's hand." This wording is interesting because it implies that there was, perhaps, no palm involved and that the hand part is just an assumption based on the shape of the scribbling digits. Delightful, I thought, that there may have instead been a swarm of disembodied fingers scratching a message into the wall. 

But wait, what's this? The Hebrew word for fingers, etsba, is used equally, if not synonymously with the word for toes. Now, the text does specify "of a man's hand" but... if it was just the fingers, how would you really know? 

What if the digits in question, therefore, were just very long toes? 

Thesis material.