Friday, September 12, 2025

Peter as a potential descendant of the Simeonite prophet Jonah

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by Damien F. Mackey Maybe Jesus called Peter “Simon son of Jonah” (Matthew 16:17) because Peter actually was a descendant of the ...
Wednesday, September 3, 2025

Comparing Ashurnasirpal so called II to Chaldean Nebuchednezzar the Great

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by Damien F. Mackey Dreams, visions, superstition, megalomania, cruelty, fiery furnace, messing with the rites, building of Babyl...
Monday, September 1, 2025

Jonah may have actually died in the ‘fish’ and gone to Sheol

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‘I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me forever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corru...
Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Ancient clay seal may refer to Asaiah, official of King Josiah

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by Damien F. Mackey “When the king heard the words of the Book of the Law, he tore his robes. He gave these orders to Hilkiah th...
Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Noah and Jonah - not merely didactic fiction

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“Despites Jonah’s own views on the subject, it is love that stands at the center of the eponymous Book of Jonah. It explains that God ...
Thursday, July 24, 2025

Sorting amongst the Old Testament prophets to find Jonah

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by Damien F. Mackey “If we add to this list the fact that the phrase in Jonah 1:1 (“now the word of Yahweh came”) also introduces ...
Tuesday, March 4, 2025

Ash Wednesday provides an ideal opportunity to repent

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“In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea and saying, ‘Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come ne...