Yahweh is a "stern imp" who "behaves rather unpleasantly" and "has been a disaster for his champions more often than not." Jesus of Nazareth was a "bewildering" figure who was "formidably ambivalent ...

Harold Bloom, Yale professor and dean of American literary critics, has once again ventured into the perilous waters of religious controversy with this meditation on two of the major figures of the ...

The oldest reference to the word YHWH comes from Egypt texts during the time of Amenhotep 111 in the 12th Century. This was the same period in history when Yuya, an Ibiri (Hebrew) who had risen to ...

In this article the author analyses the lament over Jerusalem (Matt 23:37–39; Luke 13:34–35) and its use of bird imagery. He argues the picture of Jesus as a mother hen builds on an established ...

How does a follower of Jesus live within the world of pagan culture? Paul bases his (thoroughly Jewish) answer on the meaning of monotheism, a monotheism that is both creational and cultic. In 1 ...

Old Testament scholars like Knauf and Romer make a case for YHWH being a storm god related to Qos and Edomite religion, based on a linguistic case. If their theory was plausible and you had to accept ...

Politics begins with the way we use words, George Orwell reminded us. At a precarious moment for relations between Muslims and their others it is important to recall that Allah is not the name of the ...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS are at loggerheads over a mysterious clay idol, which some have argued could be a 3,000-year-old depiction of the Hebrew God Yahweh. Archaeologists discovered the clay figure in ancient ...