GOD SINGLED OUT the Amorites for their wickedness, telling Abraham (then still Abram) that “the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.” What did God mean by that? This week, we revisit the people who dominated the world of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Amorites dominated the ancient Near East—theContinue Reading
THE BIBLE tells us that father Abraham died at the age of 175. How can we reconcile that with science without losing our belief in the inerrancy of scripture?Continue Reading
GENEALOGY IS IMPORTANT in the Bible. It not only establishes Jesus as the descendant of David, and thus the rightful king, it also shows that he was fully human during his time on Earth.Continue Reading
AMONG THE MYSTERIES of ancient Sodom are the fields of megalithic funerary monuments called dolmens clustered around the city.Continue Reading
A very large city across the Jordan River from Jericho was destroyed during the Middle Bronze Age, the time of Abraham, by something that exploded in the air over the north end of the Dead Sea.Continue Reading
MUCH OF the Bible’s early history occurred in the land we now call Turkey. Noah’s boat landed there, and Abraham—contrary to what you may have been taught—was from northern Mesopotamia, not Sumer.Continue Reading
We all know the basics of the story of Abraham. What we haven’t been taught is the cultural context behind his distress at reaching old age without a son and heir.Continue Reading
There is a cave underneath the Dome of the Rock, directly below the Foundation Stone. Since the Middle Ages it’s been called the Well of Souls.Continue Reading
What did God mean by “the iniquity of the Amorites”? Why did He single out a group of people that most of us have only heard of, if we’ve heard of them at all, in the list of nations that the Israelites had to push out of Canaan? There must have been something unique about the Amorites for God to call them out.Continue Reading
THE DESTRUCTION of ancient Sodom, which is in the news thanks to a new academic paper, is connected to the promise God made to Abraham and to the battle of Armageddon.Continue Reading