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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…
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…
Mount Cudi: 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…
The Rechabites in Arabia: What Became of the Family That Never Broke Its Vow
This essay is a companion to Jews of Khaybar: Four Traditions, One Desert Mystery, which surveys the four surviving traditions of how a Jewish community…
Jews of Khaybar: Four Traditions, One Desert Mystery
Ninety-five miles north of Medina, off the main road into the lava fields of the Hejaz, the ruins of a fortified Jewish city rise above…
Did Jethro Know YHWH Before Moses?
Did Jethro, the priest of Midian and the father-in-law of Moses, know YHWH before Moses did? Everything turns on what we mean by the question.
Temple Zero and the Tent of David: Where Zadok Anointed Solomon King
When King David brought the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem, he did not place it in the existing tabernacle at Gibeon. Instead, he pitched…
Tower of Babel: Was it Actually in Northern Mesopotamia?
Two Candidates at Opposite Ends of Mesopotamia Genesis sets the Tower of Babel in a place it calls Shinar, and says nothing about where Shinar…
King Abgar’s letter to Jesus: Edessa’s ancient Christian claim
How a small Syriac kingdom in what is now southeastern Turkey may have been among the first on earth to believe. A kingdom on the…
The Corinth Canal: The Shortcut Paul Never Got to Take
Why the Isthmus of Corinth Demanded a Canal When the Apostle Paul boarded a ship at Cenchreae bound for Jerusalem, he was leaving from the…