Most of what you’ll find here comes out of serious engagement with the Old Testament read in its ancient Near Eastern context — the cosmology, the divine council, the cosmic geography that modern Western Christianity quietly flattened out. I’m convinced recovering that strangeness changes how the whole Bible reads. These are my notes from that recovery.

Two threads run through everything here:

Biblical scholarship — working through Heiser, Walton, Wright, Bailey, and the manuscript tradition with as much rigor as a non-academic can manage.

Stoic and Christian reflection — not because they’re the same thing, but because they’re honest conversation partners. Memento mori and Psalm 90:12 are saying something similar from different directions.

Where to begin:

• [How I Study the Bible] — the method behind the notes
• [Bible Thoughts] — the primary study content
• [Bible Study Tools] — tools I created to help me study the Bible
• [Stoic-Christian Reflection] — the philosophical tributary
• [Software I Use] — the tools that run the system

Fair warning: every now and then something completely unrelated or weird will show up here. Feel free to ignore it. Or don’t.

If something here serves you, that is gain. If you find errors, the site is a working document and I welcome correction.

Memento mori. Soli Deo gloria.