The African Cultural Context of Genesis 1-12
Alice C. LinsleyIn assessing the literature that pertains to the Genesis Prehistory, it is evident that most scholars have missed the African cultural context of this material. Lacking this...
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The Royal Priest Lines of Matthew
Alice C. LinsleyJesus is a descendant of the royal priest lines of Matthew. This is evident in analysis of the king lists in Matthew's Gospel and Luke's Gospel. These kings lists reveal a pattern of...
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Destruction of the Temple: Rabbinic Interpretations
Literary critic Adam Kirsch is reading a page of Talmud a day, along with Jews around the world. This article appears here.Last month, in Tractate Shekalim, Daf Yomi readers encountered two priestly...
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David's Bloodline
Related reading: David's Royal City; Which Bethlehem was Jesus' Birthplace?; Jesus' Horite Lineage; The Royal Priest Lines of Matthew; Mary's Ruler-Priest Lineage; Abraham's Ainu Ancestors; Terah's...
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Who Were the Wise Men?
Joseph Christian Leyendecker (1900) Alice C. LinsleyA friend recently asked me if the Wise Men might have been astrologers; perhaps Zoroastrians from Persia. This notion has been circulating for some...
View ArticleSymbolic Anthropology
Here is an excellent introduction to Symbolic Anthropology that includes thumbnail sketches of Dame Mary Douglas (1921-2007); Victor Witter Turner (1920-1983) and Clifford Geertz (1926-2006).Mary...
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The Urheimat of the Canaanite Y
Alice C. LinsleyBiblical Anthropology involves research into the point of origin of the languages of Biblical peoples such as the Egyptians, the Nilo-Saharans, and the Canaanites. The German word for...
View ArticleReza Aslan Missed the Son of God
Alice C. LinsleyReza Aslan's book Zealot has received a great deal of media attention and no small amount of criticism from both Jewish and Christian scholars. He claims to have studied the question of...
View ArticleThe Africa Chesterton Never Knew
AFRICABy G.K. ChestertonA sleepy people, without priests or kings,Dreamed here, men say, to drive us to the sea:O let us drive ourselves! For it is freeAnd smells of honour and of English things.How...
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Mother and Son Pierced
But he was pierced [sti] for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed. (Isaiah 53:5)Simeon blessed them...
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Gobekli Tepe's T-Shaped Pillars
Alice C. LinsleyPre-Pottery Neolithic SiteGöbekli Tepe predates the oldest temple known to have been built by Abraham's Nilo-Saharan ancestors in Sudan at Nekhen by about 3000 years.It predates the...
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Goats: In Memory of Ellen and Gordon Hatcher
Alice C. LinsleyAustralianCashmere goatMy last living aunt, Ellen Hatcher, died in December at the age of 97. I was not able to attend her memorial at Berkeley Friends Church on January 18, but I...
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Thomas Headland is Not an Oxymoron
Dr. Headland lecturing on kinship in 1995Thomas Headland is a Senior Anthropology Consultant with SIL International, in Dallas, Texas. He has a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Hawaii. He...
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Who Were the Levites?
Nubian priest of the Nilotic Ainu. Abraham's father was also Tera, meaning priestAlice C. LinsleyThe Levites have a bloody heritage. According to Exodus 32, they are rewarded with priestly rights for...
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Are Rabbinic Interpretations of the Bible Accurate?
Alice C. LinsleyA great deal of misunderstanding can result from the mechanical reproduction of previously published ideas either because those ideas are taken out of context or because they are based...
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Yahu Seals
Alice C. LinsleyAncient clay seals were used to secure documents by the personal authority of an official or a king. These bullae were created by the impression of a signet on a lump of clay. A rolled...
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The Lion and Judah
Alice C. LinsleyThe Habiru (Hebrew) clans and their animal totems make a fascinating study. The animal totem of the clan of Hamor, one of David’s “great men,' was the wild donkey. The animal totem of...
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David's Zion Found
Massive fortification of five-ton stones stacked 21 feet (6 meters) wideJERUSALEM - An Israeli archeologist says he has found the legendary citadel captured by King David in his conquest of Jerusalem,...
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Who Was Jethro?
Alice C. LinsleyJethro was a priest of Midian, a region closely associated with the Horite rulers of Edom (Genesis 36). The region bears the name of one of Abraham's sons by his cousin wife Keturah...
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The Priests of Midian
Alice C. LinsleyAbraham and his people were Habiru (Hebrew), the oldest known caste of royal priests. They are sometimes called Hapiru or Opiru in ancient texts. They were the mighty men of old who...
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