The Noah story wasn’t the first flood narrative—it was the last in a long Mesopotamian tradition. This post traces how the flood myth began in Sumer, evolved through Babylon and Assyria, and finally entered the Hebrew Bible centuries later.
Why do evangelicals suddenly speak in King James English when they pray or testify? This feature investigates sacred register-switching as performance — how archaic biblical language is used to project authority, silence dissent, and transform personal claims into prophetic command.
There is a strange linguistic ritual in American Evangelical Christianity. Ordinary people—who speak normal 21st-century English—suddenly switch into King-James-Bible English the moment they talk about God. Words like perish, behold, brethren,
Before Israel worshiped one God, it worshiped many. Archaeology reveals that Yahweh once shared divine space with Asherah — the goddess who refused to disappear quietly.
A pharaoh’s boast carved into stone three thousand years ago rewrote biblical history. The Merneptah Stele (1208 BCE) names “Israel” for the first time—not as a kingdom but as a people. Archaeology, not scripture, now tells the story of Israel’s birth from Canaan’s collapse.
