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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:...
- Feb 9, 2015
- 4 min
Religions of the Biblical World
Beliefs, practices, and attitudes in worship throughout the ancient Near East. An understanding of any religion begins by first studying...
- Nov 1, 2014
- 3 min
ISIS and "The Ban" (ḥerem)
I apologize for the gruesome nature of this post, but I think this image of children standing around the decapitated body of a Syrian...
- Apr 7, 2014
- 7 min
El Elyon ... the One True God or just another Canaanite myth?
The general idea behind Hebraic thought is simply that there is a creator God who exists outside of all creation, who, in fact, created...