Gilbert House Fellowship #453: Psalm 82
2025-07-20
PSALM 82 is a courtroom scene in heaven.Continue Reading
Enlil, ‘God of Gods’
2025-03-26
Enlil was simply “the” god, his name deriving from a doubling of the Semitic word ilu (“god”): il + ilû, meaning “god of gods,” or “god of all the gods.”Continue Reading
Gilbert House Fellowship #440: 1 Kings 13–14; 2 Chronicles 10
2025-03-23
YOU’D THINK that being anointed king over the northern tribes because of Solomon’s disobedience to God would have caused Jeroboam to be more careful about his theology.Continue Reading
Bashan: Land of the Serpent
2025-03-19
Psalm 82 may depict Yahweh appearing in the middle of El’s infernal council to pass sentence on rebellious fallen angels.Continue Reading
Bull El
2025-03-12
We’re moving through the religions of the ancient world to trace the ancient god called “Shemihazah,” “Kumarbi,” and many other names in roughly chronological order.Continue Reading
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