For the last two decades, I’ve been told that the idea of Abraham’s Lord becoming God through a process of deification was nothing short of ludicrous. Scholars and critics alike have scoffed at the notion, dismissing it outright as the ramblings of a misguided imagination. Yet, for the last two decades, I’ve refused to let…
El Dia de los Muertos is a colorful Mexican celebration where the living celebrate their dead. For the last few years, I had the pleasure to attend el Dia de los Muertos in rural areas of Mexico. I truly enjoyed it. While Western societies have a tendency to forget about their dead, Mexicans stay very…
There is clear academic consensus around the idea that Abraham is a fictitious character. This myth, which would have been influenced by the covenantal traditions of Shechem, was passed down orally. Many scholars believe that the anthropomorphic and immaterial figures found in the narrative came from separate sources/authors (called J and E). Finally, many also…
The Covenant offers a beam of evidence suggesting that the Mesopotamian overlord with whom Abraham made a covenant was the great law giver of Babylon, king Hammurabi (1790-1752 BCE). And although the case is already pretty strong, there is no direct evidence linking “Hammurabi” to the biblical text… or at least that’s what I thought until now. I believe that Chapter 34 of Genesis tells…