☞ Every Sunday I put out a curated list of the week’s most interesting stories in infosec, technology, and humans. You can subscribe to it here. Similarities to Other Stories Unavoidable Contradictions The Logical Explanation SIMILARITIES TO OTHER STORIES The similarities between the stories and characters in the Bible and those from previous mythologies […]
Archives for May 2017
A Letter to a Christian Nation – Sam Harris – pdf
The Bible is Fiction: A Collection Of Evidence – Daniel Miessler*
Moses And Other Historical Fabrications – Dr Jason Long*
If you’ve elected to read the preceding selections in this manuscript, you will have noticed that I often refer to the first five books of the Bible as the Pentateuch. In Greek, the term simply means “five volumes.” Scholars often refer to Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy using this collective term […]
Some Reasons Why Humanists Reject The Bible – Joseph C. Sommer
Introduction Humanists reject the claim that the Bible is the word of God. They are convinced the book was written solely by humans in an ignorant, superstitious, and cruel age. They believe that because the writers of the Bible lived in an unenlightened era, the book contains many errors and harmful teachings. Humanists receive much […]
What was Egypt’s relationships with Libya and the ‘Sea Peoples’ during the New Kingdom and did this contribute to the decline of Egypt’s empire and international standing. Introduction The New-Kingdom, at its height, was a golden-age for Egypt; its authority reached over a huge geographic area (see Figure-1) from beyond the 4th-Cataract, to the Western-Oases, the […]
Who are the Sea Peoples – Eric Cline
The Ancient Near East Today’s premier ‘Ask a Near East Professional’ feature brought over 40 questions from readers. We’ve combined two, from Michael Ferris and Lloyd Dunaway, and put them to Professor Eric Cline, editor of our flagship publication, BASOR: Who are the Sea Peoples and what role did they play in the devastation of […]
Gods & Goddesses of Ancient Egypt – A Brief History – Joshua J. Mark
The land of ancient Egypt was alive with the spirit of the gods. The sun god Ra broke from the darkness every morning in his great boat, bringing the light, and many of the gods watched over the people by night as the stars. Osiris caused the Nile River to flood its banks and fertilize […]
The Mesopotamian Pantheon – Joshua J. Mark
by Joshua J. Mark The gods of the Mesopotamian region were by no means uniform in name, power, provenance or status in the hierarchy. Mesopotamian culture varied from region to region, from city-state to city-state and, because of this, Marduk should not be regarded as King of the Gods in the same way Zeus ruled […]
Nanshe – Joshua J. Mark
Nanshe (also known as Nanse, Nazi) is the Sumerian goddess of social justice and divination, whose popularity eventually transcended her original boundaries of southern Mesopotamia toward all points throughout the region in the 3rd millennium BCE. She watched over orphans and widows, oversaw fairness, fresh water, birds and fish, fertility, and favored prophets, giving them […]