YHWH is a Tetragrammaton or God’s given name in the Old Testament but Bible scholars cannot agree on exactly how this name of God was or is to be pronounced. The Hebrew language does not contain ...
How did a desert war god originally worshiped by ancient Israel’s southern neighbors become the God worshiped today in churches, mosques and synagogues across the globe? Thomas Römer’s “The Invention ...
In the film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the title hero must make it past three riddles in order to claim the treasure of the Holy Grail – the cup that Jesus drank from at the Last Supper. In ...
Old Testament scholars like Knauf and Romer make a case for YHWH being a storm god related to Qos and Edomite religion, based on a linguistic case. If their theory was plausible and you had to accept ...
Politics begins with the way we use words, George Orwell reminded us. At a precarious moment for relations between Muslims and their others it is important to recall that Allah is not the name of the ...
Archaeologists discovered the clay figure in ancient ruins that may have once been a palace east of Jerusalem, at Khirbet Qeiyafa in Israel. The figurine only measures about two inches in height and ...