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Like your thoughts aren't just floating around in your head, but somehow... accountable? The Book of Wisdom, a powerful text found in the Septuagint and later Christian Bibles, div...
It's easy to imagine them through our own lens, colored by sacred texts and centuries of tradition. But what did the rest of the world see? Well, let’s start with a rather unflatte...
We're diving into the writings of Manetho, an Egyptian priest and historian, and specifically, his account of the Exodus. Now, Josephus, the first-century Jewish historian, wasn’t ...
It's more than just a historical account; it's a defense of the Jewish people and their traditions. Josephus wants to set the record straight about Moses. He argues that when our a...
The historian Flavius Josephus, writing in his treatise Against Apion, thought he had the answer, at least when it came to the Jewish people. And it all came down to a specific app...
Our guide is Josephus, the first-century Romano-Jewish historian. In his work Against Apion, he defends Judaism against its detractors. And in doing so, he offers a fascinating, an...
The kind of things that make you pause and think, "Wait, did that really happen that way?" Let's zoom in on the story of the Garden of Eden, specifically that fateful moment when t...
To blend into the pre-Creation wilderness and hope nobody noticed. But no. They hid "in the middle of the trees of the Paradise" (Genesis 3:9). In the very place they committed the...
Sometimes, it's not just about what happened, but when it happened. And that order can be brimming with meaning. Take the story of the Garden of Eden. We all know the tale: the ser...
