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Too Many Books

Posted on November 26, 2025 by Nathan

I seem to be finishing a lot of books as of late, which means this post is going to be pretty long, even if the individual reviews aren’t. Bear with me, I guess. The Way Home, by Peter S. Beagle … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal Crossing, Animals, Art, Authors, barsoom, Book Reviews, Brentford Trilogy, Comics, Crusades, edgar rice burroughs, elvis presley, Fairy Tales, Food, Greek Mythology, History, Humor, Judaism, Magic, Mario, Middle East, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Names, Percy Jackson, Relationships, Religion, Rick Riordan, Robert Rankin, Roman, Video Games | Tagged a fate worse than dragons, abraham, adam and eve, alexander the great, amazons, animal crossing new horizons, babylon, barry the time sprout, bible, blathers, boos, caleb cook, camp jupiter, cats, daniel, dejah thoris, demons, deserted island diary, dionysus, django wexler, dogs, dragons, esther, fairies, frogs, genesis, geoffrey de bouillon, gertrude landa, ghosts, giants, griffins, gulliver, how to become the dark lord and die trying, idols, jerusalem, jewish fairy tales and legends, john carter, john moore, king alexander's adventures, king david, king for three days, king hiram of tyre, kokonasu rumba, laverna, manga, mark oshiro, mars, minotaur, moses, nico di angelo, nimrod, noah, noah's ark, normanghast, og of bashan, orcs, paradise, peter s. beagle, phobos, pirithous, queen mary tudor, rape, rashi, sambation river, schmendrick, semele, sinbad of the talmud, sinbad the sailor, sol aronson, sooz, super mario adventures, swords of mars, talmud, tantalus, the court of the dead, the fairy frog, the giant of the flood, the higgedly-piggedly palace, the last unicorn, the paradise in the sea, the princess bride, the quarrel of the cat and dog, the sleep of one hundred years, the star-child, the story of bostanai, the water-babe, the way home, theseus, time loops, timmy and tommy nookling, tom nook, two hearts, underworld, will solace, wisp, ziz | 1 Comment

Did It Hurt When You Fell from Heaven?

Posted on October 29, 2023 by Nathan

I first learned about Genesis B through Alice K. Turner’s The History of Hell. It’s an Old English poem included in a longer one called, not surprisingly, Genesis A. Of course, that wasn’t what people called them at the time. They … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Greek Mythology, History, Islam, Judaism, Language, Mythology, Poetry, Religion, Semitic, Zoroastrianism | Tagged 1 corinthians, 1 enoch, 2 corinthians, 2 enoch, aaron hostetter, abraham, adam and eve, alice k. turner, angels, bellerophon, bible, crucifixion, demons, ephesians, exodus, garden of eden, genesis, genesis a, genesis b, gigantes, heaven, hell, hera, immortality, jesus, job, jubilees, junius manuscript, kronos, lucifer, mastema, monotheism, moses, olympus, omnipotence, omniscience, pegasus, polytheism, quran, satan, sataniel, the history of hell, tower of babel, typhon, zeus | Leave a comment

Dividing Canaan

Posted on October 22, 2023 by Nathan

The current war between Israel and Palestine is obviously horrific, and I can’t say I really know enough about what’s going on there to properly write about it. I’ve certainly seen valid points for and against both populations, but also … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Conspiracy Theories, Current Events, Fundamentalism, History, Islam, Judaism, Middle East, Politics, Prejudice, Religion | Tagged 2 thessalonians, abraham, benjamin netanyahu, bible, british mandate for palestine, dispensationalism, donald trump, exodus, ezekiel, gog, hal lindsey, hamas, israel, jerusalem, jesus, joshua, judah, king david, king solomon, magog, palestine, prophecy, rapture, revelation, scofield reference bible, second coming, terrorism, zionism | 1 Comment

Mourning Announcements

Posted on March 25, 2023 by Nathan

Today is the anniversary of Jesus’ crucifixion. Okay, it probably really isn’t, and we don’t even know what year that happened, let alone the specific date. While Easter does sometimes fall this early, it’s rare. And if these first century … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Catholicism, Christianity, Christmas, Easter, History, Holidays, Islam, J.R.R. Tolkien, Judaism, Middle Ages, Passover, Religion, rosh hashanah | Tagged abraham, adam and eve, akedah, angels, apocrypals, bible, bishop james ussher, cain and abel, calendar, chronology, creation, crucifixion, exodus, feast of the annunciation, gabriel, garden of eden, genesis, good friday, gospel of luke, gospels, human sacrifice, isaac, jesus, john the baptist, lord of the rings, lucifer, martyrdom, melchizedek, moses, one ring, podcasts, pope benedict xvi, st. dismas, summer solstice, vernal equinox, virgin mary, winter solstice | Leave a comment

Quran So Far Away

Posted on May 1, 2022 by Nathan

I’ve now read through the Quran, mostly using this translation. I know it’s really only considered authentic in Arabic, but I can’t read that language. Discussing Islam can be kind of awkward, especially because the amount of Islamophobia in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Arabian, Book Reviews, Christianity, Gnosticism, History, Islam, Judaism, Language, Magic, Middle East, Mythology, Religion | Tagged abraham, adam and eve, angels, antisemitism, bible, demons, elephants, ezra, heaven, hell, homosexuality, iblis, islamophobia, jesus, jihad, jinn, jorge luis borges, joseph, king solomon, mecca, muhammad, paradise, quran, sabbath, satan, satanic verses, the book of imaginary beings, virgin mary, war | Leave a comment

Oh, What a Jubilee There Will Be

Posted on February 6, 2022 by Nathan

I had started reading the Book of Jubilees some years ago, but I don’t think I ever finished, so I returned to it recently. It’s a pseudepigraphic work, attributed to Moses based on dictation straight from God, but it’s generally … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Gnosticism, History, Judaism, Kirby, Names, Religion, Video Games | Tagged 2 peter, abraham, adam and eve, angels, apocrypals, ascension of isaiah, bible, book of enoch, cain and abel, enoch, genesis, heaven, hezekiah, incest, isaiah, jesus, job, jubilees, leviticus, lubar, manasseh, mastema, moses, noah, noah's ark, prayer of manasseh, psalms, pseudepigraphia, satan, seth, terah | 3 Comments

You Can’t Sit at Our Table

Posted on January 31, 2022 by Nathan

Today, I wanted to look at the Table of Nations from Genesis 10. The Hebrew word that’s usually translated “nations” is goyim, which became gentilis in the Latin Vulgate. Both words have come to mean non-Jewish people in general, and … Continue reading →

Posted in African, Christianity, Egyptian, Ethnicity, Etymology, Families, Greek Mythology, History, Judaism, Language, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Prejudice, Religion | Tagged abraham, aegyptus, agenor, andromeda, atlas, babylon, belus, bible, bosporus, canaan, carthage, cetus, crete, danaus, eber, egypt, esau, ethiopia, euripides, europa, flavius josephus, flood, genesis, good news bible, ham, hellen, hera, herodotus, heth, hittites, iapetus, inachus, incest, Iran, ishmael, isis, israel, jacob, japheth, jonah, king cepheus, king solomon, king xerxes i, libya, lydia, magog, mesopotamia, mizraim, moab, mycenae, nimrod, noah, ophir, paul of tarsus, perses, perseus, phoenicia, poseidon, prometheus, racism, scythia, sea monsters, shem, table of nations, tarshish, tartessos, the rose and the ring, titans, tros, troy, william makepeace thackeray, zeus | 1 Comment

Troglodyte Tuesday

Posted on March 10, 2021 by Nathan

I mentioned in my review of Rick Riordan’s The Tower of Nero that I liked the way it portrayed the troglodytes, and since I don’t think I’ve done it before, I might as well take a look at the origins … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Cartoons, Dragon Quest, Games, Greek Mythology, Language, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Rick Riordan, Television, Trials of Apollo, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged abraham, apes, buffalo, chimpanzees, claudius aurelius, cranes, dragon quest iv, dungeons and dragons, ethiopian bulls, flavius josephus, gummi bears, herodotus, horites, jorges luis borges, keturah, lickspittles, munchers, my little pony, pandura, pygmies, sambuca, the immortal, the tower of nero, troggles, troggs, troglodytes | 2 Comments

The Fellowship of Hell Can’t Help You Now

Posted on February 2, 2021 by Nathan

The History of Hell, by Alice K. Turner – Erica Olivera recommended this book to me, and I quite liked it. In a casual style, it explores the concept of Hell throughout history, in both religion and popular culture. It … Continue reading →

Posted in African, Art, Babylonian, Book Reviews, British, Catholicism, Christianity, Egyptian, Greek Mythology, History, Humor, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy, Plays, Poetry, Religion | Tagged abraham, alice k. turner, angels, bible, dante alighieri, demons, dis, divine comedy, hades, heaven, hell, hellmouths, hours of catherine of cleves, inanna, inferno, jesuits, jesus, john milton, orpheus, pandemonium, parables, paradise lost, purgatory, satan, tartarus, the history of hell, titans, tobias swinden, virgin mary | 4 Comments

The Simple Life

Posted on January 1, 2019 by Nathan

Something I’ve been looking into recently is the idea that the book of Genesis has, at least in parts, a bias against civilization. I don’t mean so much in the sense of polite behavior, but as in the more historical … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Ethnicity, Food, Gender, History, Judaism, Middle East, Mythology, Religion, Semitic | Tagged abraham, adam and eve, agricultural revolution, agriculture, babylon, bible, cain and abel, cities, civilization, garden of eden, genesis, herding, how to read the bible, hunter-gatherers, isaac, israel, jacob, james l. kugel, judah, kenites, neolithic era, nomads, tower of babel | 1 Comment

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Too Many Books

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Dividing Canaan

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Oh, What a Jubilee There Will Be

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