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That disconnect, that inability to understand each other, it goes way back. Like, really way back. We're talking about the Tower of Babel. You know, that ambitious, some might say ...
We all know the story: humanity, once united in language and purpose, dared to build a tower reaching for the heavens. God, seeing their hubris, scattered them across the earth, co...
That sense of belonging – or not belonging – is at the heart of a fascinating, and often overlooked, passage from the Book of Jubilees. Now, if you haven’t heard of the Book of Jub...
There's more to it than just geography, you know. Sometimes, stories – powerful, ancient stories – are woven right into the very fabric of the land. We find one such story in the B...
Sometimes, the answer is simpler – and more personal – than you might think. Take the story of Madai. We find him in the Book of Jubilees, hanging out in the land of Media, close t...
It offers a unique perspective on the early generations after the Flood. In Jubilees 11, we learn that SÊRÔH was born to Noah's descendants in the seventh year of a particular week...
The ancient texts grapple with this very human tendency, this slippery slope that can lead to societal breakdown. to the Book of Jubilees, a text that offers a fascinating, if some...
Sometimes, the story behind a name is a window into a whole era, a whole shift in how people saw the world. Take Serug, for example. The Book of Jubilees, a text considered canonic...
Think of it as a kind of expanded, annotated Genesis, written sometime in the Second Temple period. It offers us a glimpse into how some ancient Jews understood their own history. ...
