A word of tree, a whisper of stone

In our series “Who wrote the Bible” we come to the book of Daniel. It will be our introduction to the apocalyptic genre. There were earlier ...

A recreation of KTU 1.24.7 Among the Ugaritic cuneiform tablets dated to 12 th century BCE is also a myth about the wedding of Yarich (moon...

David and Goliath is a beautifully crafted story. The bucolic pastoral innocence of David is alluringly contrasted with his vulgar mercena...

I hear Moses in Attic. Well, more precisely, I hear Moses speaking Attic. And I do not mean he was a rich New Yorker living in a penthouse o...

Just imagine for a moment this purely hypothetical scenario: Imagine a person or persons who present themselves as deeply religious, who kno...

A substantial part of the Bible, especially the Hebrew Testament, was written much much later than many people are made to believe. That is ...

The Hebrew Bible is surprisingly aflush with mythical primordial monsters which it shares with other Near and Middle East religions and cult...