A familiar challenge to the resurrection narrative sounds straightforward: Jesus said in Matthew 12:40 that He would...
Ancient Near East
The slogan “God hates religion but loves relationship” has become a staple of modern Christian language, usually...
Across the ancient world, the storm god occupies the role of cosmic hero. He commands thunder and...
Superstition thrives wherever people believe the world is governed by hidden signals, impersonal forces, or unpredictable fate....
The Bible does use numbers symbolically, but it does not do so arbitrarily. When numbers carry meaning,...
The Christmas narratives open with a repeated command that is easy to sentimentalize and just as easy...
Within the religious world of the Ancient Near East, the boundary between divine and human authority was...
New Age spirituality often presents Ascended Masters as enlightened beings who have transcended the physical world and...
The religions of the Ancient Near East form a wide landscape of connected myths, rituals, and divine...
In the ancient world, warfare was not merely a matter of survival or conquest. It was a...
