THE ISRAELITES have traveled to the border of the Promised Land. We discuss the post-Flood incursion of giants in Canaan, yet more rebellion by the Israelites, and God’s decision to make His people wait a full generation to cross the Jordan River.Continue Reading

WE PICK up the story of Noah just before the waters of the Flood sweep over the land. We compare the biblical account of the Flood with the Mesopotamian epics featuring Atra-Hasis, Utnapishtim, and Ziusudra. Was Noah a Sumerian king? And why, after the Flood, was Noah so angry with Ham that he cursed Ham’s son, Canaan?Continue Reading