While the story surrounding Lot and his wife is among the lesser of the well-known accounts in Scripture, the story of the people who came from him is almost overlooked entirely. When people talk about Lot, in my experience at least, they talk only about two things: he was Abraham's nephew and his wife turned …
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Book Update, the Middle East, and the World
Well, it has been over a month since the last time I have given any sort of update on my book. This is much longer than I would have hopped to go, but alas that is how things are. I have yet to finish this section, but hopefully that will happen soon so I can …
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Manliness in Euripides’ “Medea”
After finishing Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series, I decided to begin reading a series of smaller plays, books, and poems from various points in history. I began this "quest" with reading Medea. I have read a handful of Greek plays and various peices of Greek literature in the past, but it was not until researching …
On the Seven Churches of Asia
As unsurprising as it should be, in my search for the descendants of Shem, Ham, and Japheth I have discovered a greater connection to the early church beyond Acts 2. It has been a little while since I have given an update on my book, and much has happened in between then and now. I …
Shem: the Final Son
The title makes it sound like some epic climax, and in some ways it is. But for the most part, the next step in the direction of this final son, Shem, is really an entire journey all to himself. For starters, I finally finished the Canaanites. I never thought that dissecting the past of the …