About
I received my undergraduate degree in Business and then received my MA in Ancient Near-Eastern Linguistics. In this blog I’m attempting to put some of the most difficult academic problems into layman’s terms. When getting my MA I realized there were serious problems that are discussed by academic religionists that aren’t being disseminated to the general public. My intentions are to transmit some of these issues faithfully without being overly technical. Some of these issues are technical, but my goal is to make them comprehensible by all.
I was raised a christian, but after learning the languages I saw that things are not always what they appear to be. I have no personal agenda here other than to explain some of the issues I discovered while getting my MA. This is about honestly looking at the data. I think my story closely parallels that of Bart Ehrman, who was a christian who learned the languages and quickly saw problems with his faith in light of the linguistic, historical, and textual evidence. I’m an open-minded agnostic which means I’m open to the possibility that God exists, but skeptical of the historical interventionist God portrayed in Torah.
“The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.”
- Sir William Osler
John 8:32
