In a comment Geocreationist left on an earlier post of mine about ‘literal days’, he helpfully points out that literal days do not, as a rule, have precisely 24 hours in them. Sunrise and sunset (the basis for reckoning days in the ancient world, including in Genesis 1, where it has “evening and morning”) vary [...]

I’m reading and collecting resources, gearing up to focus on the Mandaean language and Mandaean texts over the summer. I may even have a student who will do some independent research on the same topic over the summer. At present I’m reading Edmondo Lupieri’s The Mandaeans: The Last Gnostics, which is a nice brief introduction [...]

I’m going to try to make a habit of posting on scam spam (there’s so much of it perhaps we should just call it scpam for short), for the benefit of the gullible. People regularly find their way to my blog searching for information about scams and hoaxes. Here’s a recent addition to my inbox. [...]