Terror in Antiquity: 1st -14th Century AD The earliest known organization that exhibited aspects of a modern terrorist organization was the Zealots of Judea. Known to the Romans as sicarii, or dagger-men , they carried on an underground campaign of assassination of Roman occupation forces, as well as any Jews they felt had collaborated with […]
Archives for May 2017
Utu-Shamash – Joshua J. Mark
Utu (also known as Shamash, Samas, and Babbar) is the Sumerian god of the sun and divine justice. He is the son of the moon god Nanna and the fertility goddess Ningal in the Sumerian tradition but was known as Shamash (Samas) to the Akkadians who claimed Anu or Enlil as his father. In the […]
The Great Flood Story x 2
Noah’s Ark and the Flood
Points of similarity between the Babylonian and Noachian flood stories Comparing the stories The Chaldean Flood Tablets from the city of Ur in what is now Southern Iraq contain a story that describes how the Babylonian god Enlil had been bothered by the incessant noise generated by humans. He convinced the other gods to […]
Inventing God’s Laws … David P. Wright – pdf
Hammurabi and Moses: Law as a Mirror of Civilization – Ken Wolf
Hammurabi and Moses: Law as a Mirror of Civilization excerpted in its entirety from Personalities and Problems, by Ken Wolf (McGraw-Hill: 1999) What do the laws of a society tell us about the lives and beliefs of the people who write, enforce, and obey those laws? What was the chief difference between the law codes […]
I just read “The Greatest Lie Ever Told” by historian W H Uffington …
Douglas Michael King to The Humanist Hub I just read “The Greatest Lie Ever Told” by historian W H Uffington. Caesar’s Messiah proved there is no Jesus. But, this book proves their is no god. It’s a historic scandal. Here are some interesting points he made: According to Genesis 24, Abraham lived in Nahor, not Ur of […]