Joseph A.P. Wilson
@josephapwilson.bsky.social
Lecturer in Archaeology, Department of Classics
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
He/Him
Interests include:
Ancient Weapons Technology
Archaeology of Religion
Historical Linguistics
Folkloristics
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
He/Him
Interests include:
Ancient Weapons Technology
Archaeology of Religion
Historical Linguistics
Folkloristics
Anticlimactic?
November 7, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Anticlimactic?
Reposted by Joseph A.P. Wilson
I will include a few of the more likely speculations. Personally, I’d say the Occam’s Razor answer is: “YHWH worship spread to Judah very early, while N. Israel was still around. When writing it down in 2nd Temple, Judeans had to edit/frame these stories in a more nationalist way.” But who knows?
November 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I will include a few of the more likely speculations. Personally, I’d say the Occam’s Razor answer is: “YHWH worship spread to Judah very early, while N. Israel was still around. When writing it down in 2nd Temple, Judeans had to edit/frame these stories in a more nationalist way.” But who knows?
Reposted by Joseph A.P. Wilson
The ADL and its backers have found common cause with a specific slice of right-wing Christian plutocrats for a variety of reasons … and that’s a different thread … but also it doesn’t matter because the broader movement is pro-Hitler.
October 29, 2025 at 10:42 PM
The ADL and its backers have found common cause with a specific slice of right-wing Christian plutocrats for a variety of reasons … and that’s a different thread … but also it doesn’t matter because the broader movement is pro-Hitler.