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Moses’ Return

While I believe in miracles, simply listening to the Bible allows us to explain most, if not all, of them with lived human experience. The miracle is nearly always in the timing, not in the event... Read more

The Exodus

Everyone knows the story of the Exodus, the ten plagues, the parting of the Red Sea, and so on. But did it really happen? Let’s ask Wikipedia… There is no direct evidence for any of the people or... Read more

The Birth And Youth of Moses

The Egyptians, duly impressed by Joseph and his God, were slow to turn on their Hebrew friends. The Bible specifically says it took the lifetime of Joseph, and the death of all those who knew him,... Read more

Joseph In Egypt

After Joseph was kidnapped, as I’m sure we all know, Joseph was a trusted slave, and God blessed his master immensely because of Joseph. Then the man’s wife tried to seduce him, failed, then... Read more

Sargon to Hammurabi

While Abraham and the patriarchs were going down into Egypt, Sumer was far from uneventful. Indeed, the absence of Abraham wasn’t noticed. As has been said, Abraham’s departure roughly coincided... Read more

Descendants of Abraham

Abraham settled in Canaan, and life seems – at least, from the Bible’s version of it – to have been relatively uneventful. When God promised him an heir “from his own... Read more

Mesopotamian Empire and Sargon

To briefly recap the history of Sumer so far, it’s something like this; remember, these earliest dates are not locked in stone, and could easily be moved decades in either direction. I list them... Read more

Lifespans

We have so far taken the long age of Noah and others in the Bible at face value; but it’s worth pausing to see if we can establish real reasons to take these ages seriously. After all, we radically... Read more

Sumerian King List

The original author of the SKL must have had access to king lists and histories from various cities in Mesopotamia such as Uruk, Kish, Ur, and so on which he copied down and arranged in a way that... Read more

Abraham and Chedorlaomer

Abraham left Egypt a rich man and went back to Canaan, the land God had promised to give his heirs one day. Upon arriving, he and Lot divided the grazing land among them, and Lot chose the plains of... Read more

Abraham in Egypt

It is clear that God told Abraham to leave his home country and his father’s house, and that was the reason he left Haran (Genesis 12:1). Yet Genesis 11:31 tells us that “Terah took Abram his... Read more

Ur of the Chaldees

Quite a while ago now, I raised the question we are now finally prepared to answer: how did Abraham find himself in Ur, when his family’s inheritance was the Indus Valley? Since the Bible doesn’t... Read more