Threshing Floors and Portals
The origin of the term for “king” or “ruler” in languages from Western Europe to East Asia is a word used by our distant ancestors for the pre-Flood god-kings, the Rephaim.Continue Reading
Gilbert House Fellowship #437: 1 Kings 10–11; 2 Chronicles 9
FOR ALL of Solomon’s vaunted wisdom, he failed in the thing that mattered most.Continue Reading
Ritual Pits and Rephaim
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
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
Gilbert House Fellowship #436: Ecclesiastes 7–8
Wisdom is gained through suffering.Continue Reading
From Urkesh to Canaan
No detail in the Bible is unimportant. What did God mean by “the iniquity of the Amorites”?Continue Reading






