Doug Woodward – Nimrod

September 7, 2020

NIMROD GETS a bad rap. Or maybe too much credit. Doug Woodward, author of Rebooting the Bible, Part 2, joins us for a discussion of just one chapter in his new book, and he explains why he believes Nimrod had nothing to do with Babel—but his father, Cush, did.

SciFriday: Stardust, Saturn, and Subterranean Goat

July 10, 2020

Scientists have proposed that life was seeded on Earth by carbon floating into our atmosphere from a burned-out star. We also discuss Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001 and 2010, the importance of Saturn (the planet and the god).

SciFriday: Beware of the Blob!

June 26, 2020

Geologists have discovered monstrous, continent-sized blobs of hot rock near the boundary between the earth’s mantle and its molten iron core.

The War of Nine Kings

March 22, 2020

A WAR fought near the Dead Sea nearly 4,000 years ago is the focus of this week’s study.

Babel

September 8, 2019

THE TOWER of Babel was not at Babylon. It was at a place that was at least as important in the spiritual sense: Eridu.

The Flying Scroll

January 13, 2019

A FLYING SCROLL, a woman named Wickedness, other women with wings like storks, and four chariots pulled by red, black white, and dappled horses continue the fascinating vision of the prophet Zechariah.

SciFriday: No, Nibiru is NOT Coming to Destroy the Earth

October 20, 2017

Contrary to doomsayers, NASA’s discovery of a planet 20x farther from the sun than Neptune does not mean we’re all about to die.

Cain, Nimrod, and the god of the Abyss

May 26, 2017

What’s the connection between Cain and Nimrod? They were both city-builders, and they were both sold out to the god of the abyss. Coincidence?

In the editor’s hands

December 29, 2016

The manuscript for The Great Inception is now in the hands of the editor. I sent if off last night along with the bibliography, so now we’ll see what notes come back.

Richard Burke – The Ancient World and the Bible

September 25, 2016

THE BIBLE was not written in a vacuum. Richard Burke, author of the Raising Up Pharaoh series of novels, has invested 30,000 hours of research into the ancient world to make his fictional realm believable.

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