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When Yahweh Had a Wife, a Father, and a Second Job on the Side

The archaeology says Israel's God was assembled from the pagan deities he claimed to replace.
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The Deadly Bible Verse Scribes Made Up
How a forged ending to the Gospel of Mark gave us Appalachian snake-handling, false promises, and a resurrection scene the original author never wrote.
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The Apostles Who Hated Paul (And the Letters the Church Left Out)
What the Ebionites believed, why Galatians reads like a war record, and how the New Testament ended up written by the winning side
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The Flood, Moses in the Basket, and Half of Proverbs Were Already Ancient When the Bible Came Along
Gilgamesh, Sargon of Akkad, and an Egyptian scribe named Amenemope got there first, sometimes by a thousand years
 • Religion & History | Tanner A.
The Making of Satan: How the Old Testament Functioned Without a Devil
The cosmic enemy most Christians (and Muslims) take for granted arrived late, and the Hebrew Bible got along fine without him.
 • Religion & History | Tanner A.
Was Judas a Traitor or the Only One Who Understood Jesus?
The kiss that damned a man for two thousand years
 • Religion & History | Tanner A.
The Truth Behind Abraham’s Child Sacrifice
What the Akedah tells us about a religion that once took child sacrifice for granted
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The Real Reason Bible Characters Lived 900+ Years
Why Methuselah lived 969 years and what those numbers were actually doing
 • Religion & History | Tanner A.
Decoding the Garden of Eden
How We Can Tell the Eden Story Means What the First Piece Said It Means
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The Truth Behind the Garden of Eden
What the Eden Story Says When You Read It as Ancient Near Eastern Literature
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The Unholy Truth
Biblical scholarship and church history for people who were never told the Bible has a complicated backstory.
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