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- Nov 25, 2019
- 9 min
Religious Connections Between the Ancient East and West Fertile Crescent
Readers are told that the study of the history of religions should aim "to reconstruct religion on the basis of its extant remains:...
- Nov 18, 2019
- 22 min
History of Archaeological Theory
Anthropological and Archaeological Thought It is important to note that although many theories and approaches have founders or authors,...
- Nov 18, 2019
- 16 min
History of Archaeology
We could perhaps say that the history of archaeological research began when the first man picked up a broken piece of pottery or worked ston
- Jul 31, 2019
- 4 min
Time is not a string but a blanket...a really, really thick blanket
Time is not a string There is a common belief, perpetrated by monotone history teachers across the world, that time can be represented by...
- Jan 26, 2016
- 7 min
Religious Motif: Dame Folly of Proverbs as Goddess or Mere Anti-Yahwist? Part 1
In the Book of Proverbs, two women battle for the place of supremacy in the life of the Israelite: Lady Wisdom and Dame Folly. Wisdom,...
- May 3, 2015
- 3 min
Interpreting the Bible
Understanding the Bible can be difficult sometimes, but in our tradition there is an old standard that we use to help us. Sometimes...
- Apr 26, 2015
- 1 min
Pottery of the Levant
If you haven't been following me on Facebook, then you might not know that I had to swing back to the United States for a while after my...
- Apr 17, 2015
- 2 min
The Research Begins
It has been a long time coming, but I was finally able to get to the pottery of Mokarta. As you can see here...the pottery is beautiful....
- Mar 26, 2015
- 1 min
Heading to Sicily!
As many of you already know, I'm about to leave the country for four months. In just a few days I'll be heading out to Sicily to excavate...
- Mar 17, 2015
- 4 min
Translatability of the Gods
Have you ever noticed the strong similarity between many of the gods in the Ancient Near East? There's a reason for that. This is what...
