Across the ancient world, the storm god occupies the role of cosmic hero. He commands thunder and...
Ancient Near East
Superstition thrives wherever people believe the world is governed by hidden signals, impersonal forces, or unpredictable fate....
Annihilationism is often defended as the most decisive and morally satisfying form of judgment. Extinction, it is...
The Bible does use numbers symbolically, but it does not do so arbitrarily. When numbers carry meaning,...
Few assumptions in Christian tradition are as entrenched and as rarely examined as the claim that Joseph...
Jesus’ statement that Peter would receive “the keys of the kingdom of heaven” draws on a deep...
The possibility of encountering extraterrestrial life has moved from speculative fiction into serious scientific discussion. Advances in...
Nicodemus is central to correcting a widespread but textually unsupported claim often repeated in Christian teaching: that...
A widespread assumption in Christian theology is that the fall of Adam and Eve had to happen....
The Assyrian siege of Jerusalem under King Hezekiah is often remembered as a dramatic miracle story in...
