Here in Part 4 of my look at David Rohl’s book, The Exodus: Myth or History? we are going to look at what he has to say about the figure of Moses and the actual Exodus itself. To get us from the time of Joseph to the time of Moses, though, Rohl first gives a…
Welcome to Part 3 of my look at David Rohl’s book, The Exodus: Myth or History? in which he argues for a mid-15th century BC date for the Exodus, a late 15th-early 14th century date for Joshua’s Conquest, and a 17th century-15th century time period for the Hebrews’ sojourning in Egypt. In my first two…
In my previous post, I began to go through David Rohl’s book, The Exodus: Myth or History, by plotting out some of the main issues that need to be addressed when looking at the question of the historicity of the Exodus. Let me recap in the simplest terms. When it comes to dating the Exodus,…
It has been over a month since my last blog post. The end of the school year and other of life’s demands sometimes prevent blogpost writing. But here I am—done with my spring courses, with my child still in school for the next three weeks. I have time to write a few blog posts. Over…
I’m not sure how I want this post to be structured. The fact is that over the past few months, a whole bunch of thoughts have been swirling around my brain and trying to form themselves into some kind of coherent thing about what the title of this post is about. Yet is has been…
In my previous two posts, I introduced a long, T.S. Eliot-inspired poem I wrote back in the 90s entitled, The Seven Circles of Eternity’s Garden. Here is the link to the first post, (Circle 1: The Blood of Eden, and Circle 2: Rome), and here is the link to the second post (Circle 3: Death…
In my previous post, I introduced a long, T.S. Eliot-inspired poem I wrote back in the 90s entitled, The Seven Circles of Eternity’s Garden. Here is the link to that first post, in which I briefly explained the concept of the poem, as well as provided a general overview of Circle 1: The Blood of…
Back in 1991, I graduated college with a major in English Literature, and I read and wrote quite a bit of poetry. In particular, after college I got immensely interested in the poetry of T.S. Eliot—to this day, he is my favorite poet. In any case, in 1993 I wrote a long poem entitled The…
The next stop on our journey through the Early Church Fathers is another anonymous document called The Didache: The Teaching of the Lord According to the 12 Apostles. Like the Letter to Diognetus, The Didache is dated to the early 2nd century. What is even more amazing is that it had been lost for centuries…
The next post in my Early Church Fathers isn’t actually about an early Church Father. Instead, it is about an early Church writing by an anonymous writer, some time in the early 2nd century, possibly around AD 130. It is written to someone whom the writer addresses as, “my lord Diognetus.” In any case, this…