Egypt

July 2019

July 01, 2019
Book Review of Daniel Philpott, Religious Freedom in Islam: The Fate of a Universal Human...

February 2019

February 18, 2019
I have written a lot through the years about Christian origins and their Jewish background,...

October 2018

October 12, 2018
I write a lot about alternative non-canonical scriptures, and the diverse Christianities they represent. One...

May 2018

May 04, 2018
I have been reading an important new book called Monasteries and the Care of Souls...

January 2018

January 08, 2018
The New York Times recently published a wonderful article entitled A Fragile Biblical Text Gets...

April 2017

April 17, 2017
I have often posted on themes of history, memory, and forgetting, and some recent news...

December 2016

December 26, 2016
You may have noticed an interesting theological debate currently under way among evangelicals. Critiquing the...

March 2016

March 07, 2016
Climate change, weather, and agricultural cycles all played their part in religious history. On occasion,...

January 2015

January 25, 2015
I have been reading an excellent new scholarly book on the Manichaean religion: Iain Gardner,...

December 2014

December 19, 2014
I discussed Dylan M. Burns’s book Apocalypse of the Alien God, an account of the...
December 15, 2014
The origins of Gnosticism are normally discussed in terms of debates within Christianity. However, one...
December 05, 2014
In the early Christian era, Mesopotamia/Iraq was a thriving center of rabbinic Judaism, and throughout...

November 2014

November 21, 2014
Although the third century BC is a shadowy time in Jewish history, both faith and...
November 17, 2014
I am in search of a missing century. As I recently described, the second century...

June 2014

June 20, 2014
I have recently been posting on the astonishingly widespread influence of Freemasonry both in Anglo-American...

September 2013

September 23, 2013
Although the Book of Enoch was highly regarded in the early Christian church, it fell...
September 20, 2013
The scriptures attributed to the Biblical figure of Enoch commanded immense respect in the early...
September 13, 2013
And Enoch walked with God and then he was gone, for God took him. I...
September 06, 2013
At some point in the ninth century, a Christian monk was buried at Akhmim, in...

August 2013

August 26, 2013
As will be obvious from my recent posts, I am very interested in Egypt’s role...
August 16, 2013
Once upon a time, the Alexandrian Patriarch Mark was visiting a provincial Egyptian city called...
August 12, 2013
I described the Egyptian monk Shenoute and his fierce wars for orthodoxy in the fourth...
August 11, 2013
The Egyptian abbot Shenoute is one of the major Christian figures of Late Antiquity. He...
August 09, 2013
Who’s the odd man out: Ambrose, Patrick, John Chrysostom, Leo the Great, Shenoute? All were...

July 2013

July 26, 2013
It’s grim to watch recent developments in Egypt, as the nation’s Coptic Christians face growing...
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