In last weeks’ reading of the Hebrew scriptures:

I started this as a comment to something Leftover said, but here goes, anyway: (As a reminder, I, the fundamentalist with Mad Bible Skills, have started re-reading the Bible, from Gen. 1, using a guide I loaded onto my phone. Obviously, people read the Bible and find different things. Here’s what I found last week:) A man named …

So I’m reading my Bible. Again.

I started after the first of the year. I mean, I never actually stopped reading it, but it was more targeted reads, looking for something specific. Now? I’m just reading Though no serious Biblical scholar would do this I started with Gen. 1. I’m up to chapter 40 or so, and I am finding things I …

Sorry, Dr. Carson. No pyramids in Joseph’s story.

Front-running Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson has floated a theory that the pyramids of Egypt were built by Joseph, then known as Zaphenath-Paneah (though different Bible versions spell that different ways). Joseph had been sold into slavery by his brothers, only to rise in the Pharaoh’s kingdom by a mix of grace and a freakish …