How did the Bible become a book? Who wrote the books of the Bible and how is it the Bible was written at all? How did the Bible become a book? The social infrastructure necessary for the widespread use of writing in Israel would not begin to em

Yahweh and the Divine Assembly

2 May 15th, 2020 17m 39s

. As a West-Semitic language, Ugaritic is closely related to biblical Hebrew, sharing a good deal of vocabulary, as well as relating to forms of words, structures of sentences and the way the language is arranged. The Ugaritic divine council w

The Origins Of Yahwism

1 May 9th, 2020 22m 41s

The relationship between the God of Israel (Elohim) and the Canaanite god El is widely contested among scholars. I will examine the Kinite position as the biblical account of Yahweh's origins. There's much discussion about the Ugaritic traditio

The Israelites and the Ancient Near East Worldview

1 May 6th, 2020 20m 39s

What I’m seeking to do is to place the Hebrew Bible and the ancient Israelites in the context of its surrounding Mesopotamian and Canaanite culture. In doing so I hope to explain the lost worldview of an ancient civilization and how their world