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January 2023

January 17, 2023

Jesus of Nazareth: Prophet, Priest, or King?

Christianity considers Jesus of Nazareth to be the Davidic messiah whose coming is promised...

December 2022

December 26, 2022

Christianity: A Radically Messianic Faith

It should now be quite apparent that, from Zoroastrianism down through the rigid...

December 20, 2022

The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Two-Messiah Theory

No doubt much of the fascination that surrounds the religious group that produced the...

December 18, 2022

The Second Moses and the Return of Elijah

It is no secret that Judea at the time of Christ was a hotbed...

November 2022

November 23, 2022

The Return of David

By now, we have an understanding of the basic contours of the messiah idea...

November 07, 2022

Messianism Spiritualized: The Book of Jeremiah

We find Isaiah’s template repeated throughout the Jewish scriptures. Jeremiah may be one of the...

October 2022

October 23, 2022

Early Messianism in the Book of Isaiah

Now that we have located the possible origin of the messianic idea in Zoroastrianism, it...

October 10, 2022

Zoroastrianism Coda: The Empire of Time

I had thought, after the previous entry, to leave Zoroastrianism behind, but then I came...

October 02, 2022

Zoroastrianism: The First Messianic Faith

To properly understand Christianity as an eschatological faith, it behooves us to understand the deep...

September 2022

September 24, 2022

The Eschatological Basis of Christianity

All of the world’s major religions are, to an extent, eschatological. Because one of the...

September 17, 2022

“An Emperor Among Us?”: Emperor Norton’s Religious Utopianism

Well, this is not how I expected to start off the first “real” entry in...

September 13, 2022

A Source of Hope in Apocalyptic Times

The end of the world, it seems, is always upon us. Constantly, we are warned...