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Sep 9, 2026, 2:14 PM

Kahlat and the Hidden Archive of Section 60: Jordan River and Copper Scroll

Geographic Background and Identification Traditions: Ein Samiya versus Ein Kahlat Over the years, research on the Copper Scroll has examined several sites in an attempt to identify the mysterious location called “Kahlat.” Ein Samiya (in the Wadi Yitav system): The largest...

Sep 7, 2026, 4:41 AM

Two Demons: Why “Is AI Conscious?” May Be the Wrong Question

What is the question

Bu Joe Nalven + Claude + Gemini Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? — Job 38:2 What This Essay Claims, and What It Does Not This is an argument from plausibility, not a proof. I am not going to...

Vincent James Hooper

Sep 4, 2026, 3:42 PM

The Drawing on the Blackboard

On the day Niels Bohr died, 18 November 1962, someone photographed the blackboard in his study at the Carlsberg mansion in Copenhagen. On it was a drawing. It depicted a box of light, the thought experiment that Albert Einstein...

Ibrahim Mukherjee

Aug 30, 2026, 6:37 AM

It’s Maths (not turtles) all the way down.

Why Are There No Miracles Anymore? If God sent miracles before, why do we not see them now? Why no sea splitting? No staff becoming a serpent? No dead being raised? Islam’s first answer is straightforward: prophethood ended with Muhammad ﷺ. But there...

Pinchas M. Orbach

Aug 27, 2026, 9:29 PM

The Ivory Pomegranate and the Living God

Replica of the ivory pomegranate and its disputed Paleo-Hebrew inscription. Public domain image via Wikimedia Commons.

There is a particular kind of tremor that passes through the academic world whenever the earth beneath our feet seems to whisper something that lines up unusually well with the biblical record. In biblical archaeology, a handful of dirt or...

Aug 26, 2026, 4:58 AM

Rabbis Have a Moral Imperative to Use AI

Why Rabbis Should Use AI This High Holy Day Season Every year around this time, rabbis begin disappearing. We disappear into books, notes, drafts, abandoned openings, half-finished sermons, deleted paragraphs, and the peculiar anxiety that comes with knowing that more people...

Aug 25, 2026, 8:47 PM

Jerusalem: Unknown Reservoirs in Absalom’s Tomb on Pilgrims’ way to Temple Mount

The Hidden Waterworks of the Kidron Valley: Do Sections 48–49 of the Copper Scroll Lead to Absalom’s Tomb and the Tomb of Jehoshaphat? This article explores an attempt to decipher a mysterious and potentially extensive water installation beneath the western...

Aug 21, 2026, 6:52 PM

Copper Scroll: From the Pool of Siloam to the Jordan River Basin and Qumran

Trying to Decipher Section 47 of the Copper Scroll: A New Hypothesis on the Hidden Engineering of the Pool of Siloam. Following the hydro-archaeological analysis that proposed identifying Section 46 of the Copper Scroll with the mysterious tunnel at Ramat...

Aug 20, 2026, 9:19 AM

Us vs Them, Part III

Living With “Them”: If human beings will always form groups, how can we live together? Image © Ivan Bassov, 2026. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Living With “Them” In Part I, we examined how people create “us” and “them.” In Part II, we followed those boundaries as they became social and political realities—shaping identities, institutions, borders, and ideas about who belongs. But if group boundaries are...

Aug 18, 2026, 9:00 PM

Us vs Them, Part II

When Belonging Becomes a Boundary: How do group boundaries become social and political institutions? Image © Ivan Bassov, 2026. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

When Belonging Becomes a Boundary In Part I, we examined the psychological origins of “us” and “them.” We saw how easily people form groups, how arbitrary an initial boundary can be, and how differences can acquire meaning after that boundary...

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