Timar Ross

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—

Ecstatic speech didn’t begin with Pentecost. From shamans to sibyls to revivalists, people have long cried out with voices not entirely their own.