Category: All Teachings

Splitting, Tearing, and the Threshold of a New World

Splitting, Tearing, and the Threshold of a New World

A Note to Readers:This article begins a new series exploring Matthew’s account of the crucifixion and resurrection. What started as a study of the torn veil has expanded into a larger investigation of sacred...

Worship and Wrestle

Worship and Wrestle

The framework that once carried Christianity through American life is collapsing. In the decades following World War II, churches existed within a society that largely reinforced a Christian worldview. Schools, neighborhoods, civic institutions, entertainment,...

Exodus & Jesus Our Divine Warrior

Exodus & Jesus Our Divine Warrior

Dinah joins the RING THEM BELLS podcast to share about her most recent book The Greatest Exodus. We explore the culture and context of the ANE and it’s influence of the Hebrew Bible. We...

Where Chaos Ends, Presence Begins

Where Chaos Ends, Presence Begins

There is a pattern that runs like a deep current shaping Scripture from beginning to end. In the ancient world, a temple was never built in the absence of conflict. A temple always followed...

The Goat That Never Returned—And the Son Who Did

The Goat That Never Returned—And the Son Who Did

Each year on Yom Kippur, two goats stood before the high priest in Jerusalem—one chosen “for the Lord,” the other designated “for Azazel,” the wilderness goat figure associated in early Jewish tradition with chaos,...

Corinth, Geography, and Paul’s Reorientation of Power

Corinth, Geography, and Paul’s Reorientation of Power

Subscribe now Ancient Corinth (Greek: Korinthos) needs to be understood from its geography. I had the great pleasure of visiting this site (December 2025) and was awestruck by the surrounding landscape. The city’s geographical...

Exploring Divine Warrior Traditions with Dr  Dinah Dye

Exploring Divine Warrior Traditions with Dr Dinah Dye

My new book examines the divine warrior tradition in the ancient Near East cultures. Battles with giants and amazons. How the ancient world’s creation stories are based on combat myth as opposed to the...