Wilcock frequently cited the Book of Enoch in his work, arguing that the Watchers were not supernatural beings but interdimensional or extraterrestrial entities. He framed the text as suppressed ...

For much of my career, I have worked on ancient prayers. I have long been interested in the prayers and hymns associated with the figure of Solomon, the son of David. In recent years, this interest in ...

What connects an “Italian” bishop, a Flemish stateman and an English king? Statecraft. Just not this but responsible statecraft. In the wake of the Crusades and the geopolitical transformations that ...

‘Biblical Apocrypha’ sounds like something out of a conspiracy theorist's darkest dreams. Books that have been hidden away from us. Books that contain secret information on the origins of Christianity ...

Convenor: Dr Jane Heath (j.m.f.heath@durham.ac.uk). Please contact with any queries, e.g. if you would like to attend the seminar online. Meetings: Mondays (3-4.30pm) in Seminar Room C in Abbey House ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

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If you’re not into Biblical scholarship, the word Pseudepigrapha may sound like some advanced disease your dermatologist told you to watch out for. Actually, it refers to a group of books that claim ...

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Todd Johnson, co-director of the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, couldn’t quite place the Chinese Christians he met at a conference in South Africa.