The biblical Exodus is often imagined as a dramatic escape from Egypt across the Sinai desert, culminating in a miraculous sea crossing. But tradition has long held that the Exodus took place northeast of Egypt. What if that idea has always been true—just misunderstood? What if "northeast of Egypt" referred not to the Sinai Peninsula,…
This article does not argue for a simplistic etymological link between Easter and Ishtar, but instead explores a more substantive possibility: that both Pesach and Easter preserve elements of a much older, shared tradition rooted in Mesopotamian funerary rites. Spring Rites and the Cult of the Dead The origins of Pesach (Passover) and Easter have…