Senet and Other Games
Senet (aka the game of passing through) may not be the very oldest of board games, but it was deeply…
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Browsing Tag: culture
Magical Birth Bricks
Looking into how Ancient Egyptians gave birth, I wasn’t expecting to run into magical birth bricks. But here we are….
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How to Make a Hut
We know a lot about making Egyptian pyramids and palaces, and a bit about where skilled workers lived, but what…
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The Mother Tongue
What languages might the participants of the Exodus spoken and written? This is really a fantasy question because, to answer…
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Goldwork for the Golden Calf
Moses said to Aaron, “What did this people do to you that you have brought such great sin upon them?”…
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The Sacrifices Between Revelation and Ascension
So do you ever read the Bible and think to yourself, how much blood did Moses throw anyway? No? Maybe…
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A Wedding in the Desert
Jewish weddings even today follow traditions thousands of years old. Still, a modern wedding, no matter how strictly observant, will…
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Yavapai Dances
Among our time travelers is a sibling group (Zach, age 10, and twins, Helena and Yelena, age 9) who are…
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A Gay Old Time
Every single society ever has had members who fall in love with people deemed the wrong gender for them (or…
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Turquoise
A sky blue gemstone found in only a few places in the world. Including Egypt and Arizona. Turquoise is a…
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Voices in My Head
Hearing voices in modern culture is almost always diagnosed as some sort of mental illness. Ditto seeing things that aren’t…
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How to Speak Like a Baptist
Two of my point of view characters are siblings Phoebe and Malcolm. Their dad, Irving, has (non-practicing) Jewish parents. Their…
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Baptist Church Life: Houston and Beyond
This post contains foundational research which I use in the followup, How to Speak Like a Baptist. The Baptist Faith…
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The Mosquito Fleet of Galveston
Galveston and Galveston Bay is a long-standing shrimping area just south of Houston, Texas. The rich marine resources of Galveston…
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The Morning Watch
Instead of using modern hours and minutes, the Ancient day was broken up into descriptive chunks of time. The nighttime…
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Exodus Timekeeping
My time travelers, naturally, think of time in hours and minutes. One of them even has a digital watch. But…
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Sing! Sing a Song
I am looking for songs or sung prayers that might have existed in the pre-Exodus period. To be used by…
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Tribal Banners
Each under the banners (or flags or standards) of his father’s house. What does that mean? When I think of…
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I Call to You: Jonah’s Prayer
In my search for prayers and songs original to Tanakh, but earlier than The Song of the Sea, my Rabbi…
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God Language
In Judaism, God has many names. Some are quite ancient, others not so much. And many stem from the fact…
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