The Logos and the Hebrew Shakan

N.T. Wright takes some time in his book, How God Became King, to connect the idea of the logos (the eternal Word), with the idea of “dwelling,” or abiding in God’s presence:

The Word became flesh and kai eskenosen en hemin, “set up among us his skene,” his “tent” (it’s the word from which we get “scene”; a theatrical backdrop is a kind of “tent” in which the action takes place). In case there was any doubt, the Greek word skene is (coincidentally?) a close echo of the Hebrew shakan, which means “dwell” or “abide”; when we read of people…