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THE BOOKS OF MEQABYAN: ETHIOPIA’S FORGOTTEN HEROES OF FAITH

The Books of Meqabyan: Ethiopia’s Forgotten Heroes of Faith Three Ge’ez books, a different Maccabean tradition, and a fierce theology of faithfulness, repentance, and resurrection In the opening movement of 1 Meqabyan, an idol-worshiping king demands what no ruler has the right to claim. Three…
THE BOOK OF BARUCH: WISDOM, EXILE, AND HOPE

The Forged Seal and the Scribe Behind It In 1975, a small lump of clay surfaced on the antiquities market in Jerusalem. Someone had pressed a seal into it two and a half thousand years earlier, and the impression was still sharp enough to read:…
THE WATCHERS IN THE BOOK OF ENOCH: WHO WERE THEY?

Somewhere on the northern border of ancient Israel stands Mount Hermon, its summit snow-capped even in the desert heat. Today it’s a hiking destination and a ski resort. In the Second Temple period, Jewish readers told a very different story about it: that this was…

THE BOOKS OF MEQABYAN: ETHIOPIA’S FORGOTTEN HEROES OF FAITH