A. Royden D'souza

The story of ancient Israel/Judea/Palestine is not a simple unfolding of a single ethnic or national destiny. Rather, it is a layered fabric of continuous habitation, punctuated by migrations, elite manipulation of ritual and genealogy, and a protracted, contested fusion of indigenous and external traditions.

Who are/is the Elohim? Before Yahweh, before the Ten Commandments, before the monotheism that would shape Western civilization, the land of Canaan was home to a rich, complex, and deeply embodied polytheistic religion.

In December 2025, Nuno Loureiro, a man who had spent his career probing the invisible architecture of the universe was shot multiple times in his Brookline, Massachusetts home. The police identified no suspects. No motive was publicly released.