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The Tree of Knowledge: What We Actually Know, Sorted by Confidence
Every claim I could find about the tree of knowing good and bad, sorted into what the text says, what the Hebrew carries, what is only tradition, what is theory, and what is invented. Including the readings of mine that did not survive.
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Jerome: The Man Who Went Back to the Hebrew
He learned Hebrew in a desert in his thirties, when almost nobody in the Latin West bothered with it, and then spent thirty-four years translating the Old Testament from the original. The Bible on your desk still carries the shape of that decision, and so does the most famous mistranslation ever pinned on anyone.
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How I Study the Bible
I am not a seminary graduate. What I have is a large library, years of reading, and forty years of wrestling with a God I could not fully explain. Here is how the work actually gets done.
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Lesser Gods of the Old Testament: Pagan Deities
The Old Testament names dozens of rival gods: Baal, Asherah, Molech, Dagon, the Queen of Heaven, the host of heaven. A working reference to who they were and what each one claimed authority over, read through the Divine Council framework.
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Moses at the Threshold: The Circumcision Crisis
Exodus 4:24-26 is one of the strangest passages in the Torah. Yahweh attacks Moses on the road to Egypt, and Zipporah stops it with a flint knife and a covenant act. A divine council reading of why the household had to come first, and where the Hebrew refuses to settle.
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