Ritual Pits and Rephaim
2025-02-26
In Ugaritic texts, the Rephaim were summoned through a necromancy ritual to the “threshing-floor” of the Canaanite creator-god El–the summit of Mount Hermon.Continue Reading
The Well of Souls
2025-02-19
A cave under the Dome of the Rock, directly below the Foundation Stone, has been called the Well of Souls since at least the Middle Ages.Continue Reading
From Urkesh to Canaan
2025-02-12
No detail in the Bible is unimportant. What did God mean by “the iniquity of the Amorites”?Continue Reading
Connecting to the Netherworld
2025-02-06
The central feature of the temple at Urkesh was a deep pit dug into the earth used to summon deities from the netherworld.Continue Reading
The Lord of Urkesh
2025-01-29
In 1984, husband and wife archaeologists discovered a link between the earliest post-Flood civilizations, the mysterious “sons of God” mentioned in Genesis chapter 6, and the myths of Greece and Rome.Continue Reading
Kumarbi: Would-be Ruler of Creation
2025-01-22
The first identity of this rebellious Watcher to appear in the historical record is not Saturn or his Greek analogue, Kronos. The Titan king and his Phoenician equivalent, Baal Hammon, don’t appear until the first millennium BC. Enlil of Akkad and Sumer appears in the written record around the endContinue Reading