Dr. Jones & the Case of the Fishian Tablets Before the Christmas holidays, I got in town just in time to see the Dead Sea Scr...

Well, here we are at the end of April 2012's A-Z blogging challenge.  Last year's final post, Z is for Zoomorphic Angels , is my s...

Sexy.  Promiscuous.  Proud.  Defiant.  Queen Jezebel (1 Kings 16 - 2 Kings 9, see also ), who has entered our speech in the phrase, "...

14th of Nisan: Passover Exodus 12   1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt saying, 2“ This month shall be unto y...

Most people in the English-speaking word, I wager, would be completely unfamiliar with the name Ebeneezer if it were not for Charles Dicken...

From blood yesterday, we move rather naturally to covenant today.  We use the term covenant to refer to a solemn agreement.  In the times of...

I have said it before.  Undoubtedly, I will say it again: Tolkien's On Fairy Stories should be required reading on more than one read...

My most popular post of all time has been, for some time, Z is for Zoomorphic Angels.  I suspect that there is more than one reason for thi...

The image of a serpent (snake or dragon) with its tail in its mouth is ancient, pervasive, and arresting. Frankly, it's also one of my f...

This year is the four-hundredth anniversary of the translation of the Bible authorized by King James I of England and Scotland.  Popularly ...

Sphinx. Phoenician, 899–700 B.C.  Ivory.* Zoomorphic entry from Merriam-Webster . zoo·mor·phic adj \ˌzō-ə-ˈmȯr-fik\ 1 : having th...