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Apr 20, 2024 · Explore the intriguing history of the Philistines in the Bible: were they real adversaries or mere literary devices? Uncover their origins, culture, and legacy through archaeological and biblical lenses.
- Blood Red Nile
- A Plague of Locusts
- Parting The Red Sea
- The Canaanites Are All Right
- Gigantism
- The Voice of God
- Sometimes The Dead Aren’T Actually Dead
In the Book of Exodus, the Egyptian empire is beset by the plague — 10 plagues, to be exact. Animals behave oddly, and the sky turns black. Even more alarming, the river fills with blood. Everything in that bloody river dies. Clearly, it’s not possible for a river to start bleeding, but scientists believe the plague in question may have been a red ...
Another nasty aspect of the Exodus were the locusts. See, short-horned grasshoppers are typically innocuous little things, hopping around, bothering no one. But in times of severe drought, they can undergo a horrible metamorphosis. Triggered by serotonin in their brains, grasshoppers can become locusts — the Jekyll to the grasshopper’s Dr. Hyde. In...
As the plagues are raining down, the Israelites decide to flee from the Egyptians and, let’s be real, it wasn’t going well. That is, until Moses, the original Prince of Egypthimself, split the Red Sea in half, allowing the Israelites to run across to safety before the water rebounded, crashing over the Egyptians and stopping them in their tracks. C...
Deuteronomy 20:17 instructed the Israelites to “completely destroy them — the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites — as the LORD your God has commanded you.” And the Israelites listened, destroying their enemies. Or so the Bible said. But a July 2017 paper published in the American Journal of Human Genetics presents com...
It’s been immortalized in art for millennia, but what does science have to say about Goliath and his puny, but triumphant, friend David? Well, for much of human history, people were pretty short. While the average American man today is pushing 5 feet 10 inches, for much of human history the average dude hovered around 5 feet 5 inches. So it’s no wo...
God talks a lot in the Bible, which, fair, since it’s his book. But how could anyone — scribes or prophets — hear the big man upstairs? Well, they probably couldn’t. But that doesn’t mean they weren’t hearing something. Auditory hallucinations, where people hear sounds that aren’t actually there, are actually fairly common in the general population...
Coming back to life is prime content for the Bible — it happened at least twice in the New Testament alone. One of the lucky resurrected was Lazarus. In the Gospel of John, Jesus gets word that his friend Lazarus of Bethany is dying. But he doesn’t rush to his side. By the time Jesus finally shows up, Lazarus has been dead for four days and is alre...
May 18, 2024 · But were the tribes real or are they merely part of a foundational myth? In this article, I’ll explore what the Bible says about the 12 tribes of Israel, what scholars say about their historicity, and what the ongoing quest to find the lost tribes can tell us.
While the deuterocanon describes events between the eighth and second centuries BCE, most historically identifiable people mentioned in the deuterocanon lived around the time of the Maccabean Revolt (167–160 BCE), during which Judea was part of the Seleucid Empire.
Jun 22, 2021 · In an interview with The Christian Post, singer Kaya Jones, a former member of the 2000s girl group Pussycat Dolls and an outspoken supporter of former President Donald Trump, elaborated on her baptism and her decadeslong faith journey as a whole.
Nov 1, 2023 · “In terms of dating, it is stated that there was life in this region as well,” Kaya says, according to The Daily Mail. “This was revealed in the laboratory results.” Human activity, however, does...
Boat-shaped ruins believed to be the historical scripture. N oah's Ark, the ship in the Genesis flood from the Bible, has become a topic of discussion after scientists placed humans at the site...
