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June 15, 2019August 3, 2019Jerry's Blog

Manetho

What do you trust more, the Word of God or the writings of a pagan priest? The question is more relevant than […]

January 28, 2019Jerry's Blog

Jericho Revisited

Professor John Garstang of Liverpool University excavated Tell es-Sultan, Biblical Jericho, between 1930 and 1936. Having discovered a partially collapsed mudbrick wall, […]

January 22, 2019Jerry's Blog

Biblical Archaeology

By the 1920’s, popular opinion, even in the US, was described by the expression “God Is Dead”, and those who believed in […]

January 14, 2019Jerry's Blog

The Roasting Twenties

Friedrich Nietzsche lived until 1900, which qualified him to be an excellent observer of the 19th century movements that resulted from the […]

August 29, 2018Jerry's Blog

The Priest who Shaped a Nation

Normally, the responsibility of a Jewish priest consisted of receiving the sacrifices and offerings from the people and offering them in the […]

August 20, 2018Jerry's Blog

Two Calves Shy of a Legacy

Around 886 BC, when the reformer Jehu arose, Baal worship was at its worst. Israel had lost its uniqueness. In the northern […]

August 16, 2018Jerry's Blog

Life-Changing Events

Many people, including myself, have had life-changing experiences. We have experienced a tragedy or a crisis that was so intense and personal […]

August 11, 2018Jerry's Blog

How to Blaspheme God

The Iron Age changed the face of the world. Iron was not new, but the extensive mass production of iron was. When […]

August 8, 2018Jerry's Blog

Flexible Absolutes

Hezekiah was twenty-five when he began to reign, so he had known his industrious grandfather Jotham and had also grown up watching […]

August 3, 2018Jerry's Blog

Don’t Roast Your Children

Judah Israel Syria Assyria Year Ahaz Pekah Rezin Pul (Tiglath-Pileser III) ~736 BC   What was going on in Judah when Samaria […]

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