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The Plateau of the Seventy Elders: Where They Saw the God of Israel
Seventy-four men once saw the God of Israel, ate and drank in His presence, and lived to walk back down. Exodus 24 puts the scene on a plateau partway up the mountain, hidden from the plain and wide enough for the gathering. On Jabal Maqla, climbers still reach it today.
The Golden Calf Altar in Saudi Arabia: Egyptian Cattle Gods at the Foot of Jabal al-Lawz
Dozens of bulls and cows are cut into a natural outcrop standing above the plain below Jabal Maqla. The Saudi survey that catalogued them denies any Egyptian connection in absolute terms, then grants in the previous paragraph that cattle worship was common here. Where the case for this mountain actually rests.
Elijah’s Cave at Mount Sinai in Arabia: Why the Prophet Fled to Horeb
Every English Bible says Elijah reached “a cave” at Horeb. The Hebrew says the cave, a specific one the writer expected his readers to know. On the eastern face of Jabal Maqla there is exactly that: a true cave, high on the mountain, set where the text puts it and open to the slope.
AlUla in the Bible: Dedan, the Oasis of Traders, and the Jews Who Came After
Ezekiel listed what the merchants of Dedan carried: ivory, ebony, saddlecloths for riding. The town he named is the oasis now called AlUla, and about two thousand inscriptions are carved into a canyon there, in a script that died out.
Rephidim in the Bible: What the Name Means and Why It Matters
Rephidim means refreshment, yet Israel camped there and found no water at all. A look at what the name means, the rock Moses struck at Horeb, and where Rephidim falls on the road to Sinai.
Dara, the Ancient City Called Resurrection
Twenty miles southeast of Mardin there is a ruined city that everyone calls Dara. That was the local name, the one that stuck, and it is what the road signs say today. Its official name was Anastasiopolis. The emperor who built it was Anastasius, and emperors named cities after themselves. But Anastasius is not a neutral name. It comes from…
The Durupinar Site: What the 2026 Noah’s Ark Investigation Is Actually Testing
What is the Durupınar Site? On a hillside in far eastern Turkey, in the Doğubayazıt district of Ağrı province, about twenty-nine kilometers (eighteen miles) south of Mount Ararat, a long ridge of earth runs across the slope in the shape of a ship’s hull. The Durupinar site, spelled Durupınar in Turkish, emerged in 1948, when heavy rains and earthquakes stripped…
The Bronze Serpent and the Pole: From Pharaoh’s Court in Egypt to Calvary
Why the single most haunting image in the Bible follows a trail that runs from Egypt through the wilderness to the cross. Walk into the Imhotep Museum at Saqqara, the great necropolis south of Cairo, and one of the first objects you meet is a limestone pillar standing well above head height. Two serpents writhe up its shaft in deep…
Mount Cudi (Judi) Turkey: The Oldest Claim to Noah’s Ark
Mount Cudi, written Cudi Dağı in Turkish and pronounced “Judi,” is a limestone ridge in Şırnak province in southeastern Turkey, rising to about 2,114 meters above the Tigris near Cizre. It holds the oldest recorded claim to be the landing place of Noah’s Ark. A Babylonian priest named it in the third century BC, the Aramaic translators of Genesis placed…
The Rechabites in Arabia: What Became of the Family That Never Broke Its Vow
Jeremiah set wine before them and told them to drink. They refused, having kept a single command for two and a half centuries. Then Babylon came, and the Rechabites disappear from Scripture. A twelfth-century traveler crossing Arabia reported finding them at Tayma, still refusing.