A word of tree, a whisper of stone

2020/10/30

Blessing on journey to afterlife

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Two lines from Ketef Hinnom II  with the tetragramaton and request for a watchful protection. In 1979 an archeologist Gabriel Barkay from...
2020/10/14

Ancient Sinai Caravanserai

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Did Hebrew god YHWH have a wife? Was there a time when Hebrew people worshiped a divine couple - god YHWH and goddess Asherah? If you read o...
2020/10/09

Compassion and healing

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Crown prince Yaṣib came to his father, he lifted up his voice and cried:     Listen, I besiege you, O noble Keret,     listen, and let your ...
2020/10/01

Priest and King

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Biblical writings are proverbially difficult to date. They contain some very old stories (myths and legends or prophesies and poems) which w...
2020/09/17

De-labeling

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“Do you know the difference between a pirate and a privateer?” We were asked this question almost as soon as we landed in Kingston, Jamaica....
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2020/08/27

Long Exodic Journey

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Thirty years ago I and my Central European friends lived through quite radical changes. Those were the heady times of the Velvet Revolution ...
2020/08/21

Bovine theology

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You probably know the infamous story of the golden calf. When Moses was up on the mountain, Israelites beneath the mountain created for them...
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Andrew Stehlik
Pastor of Rutgers Presbyterian Church in NYC. Doctor of Theology from Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic) for the study of Religious Texts from Ugarit.
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