Discover the fascinating archaeological and biblical clues that trace the origins of God to the southern deserts of Edom. Dive into the history of the ancient Levant and uncover the shared religious roots of two rival nations!
Why do we speak different languages? Where did the bitter rivalry between ancient nations come from? Discover how biblical scribes used “etiology”—retroactive origin stories—to explain the bizarre geological and political realities of the ancient Near East.
The consolidation of the southern Levantine states was strictly dictated by geographic realities, with agrarian societies like Israel centralizing earlier than the arid, metallurgy-driven region of Edom.
At just 21 verses, Obadiah is the shortest book in the Hebrew Bible—but its fierce condemnation of Edom reveals the raw, geopolitical trauma of Judah’s darkest hour in 586 BCE.
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