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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,...
Jan 26, 20167 min read


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...
May 3, 20153 min read


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 26, 20151 min read


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....
Apr 17, 20152 min read


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 26, 20151 min read


Assimilation. Resistance is Futile.
All of us are in some way a product of assimilation. Throughout history, as in today's world, humans naturally adapt to their...
Oct 31, 20133 min read


Translation of the gods
I mentioned before the "translation" of the gods in the ancient world, but I never really explained what that was. The idea is that all...
Jul 14, 20132 min read


Daily Life
People don't often think of life in ancient times. How did they live? How did they manage? How do we manage? lol. Life, in general, was...
Jul 11, 20132 min read


Making the leap
Every once in a while it is fun to just let yourself go ... in this case, I am jumping off a cliff (that's the Mediterranean Sea in the...
Jul 10, 20133 min read