Standalone bodies of writing — each its own argument, each tracing a thread of the Persian-Zoroastrian inheritance back to its source.
Different subjects, same project: tracing what Persia gave the world, and what the world owes back.
One thousand years ago, an old man died in a Persian garden. He had spent thirty years writing fifty thousand couplets to keep Zoroastrian Persia alive. It worked. A seven-part essay series for the millennium of his death — tracing the Shahnameh's deepest material back to the Avesta, the Yashts, and the priesthood who carried it through the centuries.
Read the series →A cited, source-driven study tracing how the deity of the Hebrew Bible developed across three thousand years — from the Shasu of YHW in 1400 BCE, through the Canaanite pantheon, to the Persian inheritance that reshaped him forever. Nine threads, forty-one primary documents, every claim sourced.
Enter the archive →Nine specimens of editorial activity in the Hebrew Bible, documented one at a time, at every scale from a single word to the entire Pentateuch. The Census. The Boundaries. The Awakening. The Promotion. The Foreign Tongue. The Names. The Two Voices. The Overlay. The Witness. The Verdict. Mainstream textual scholarship as the anchor, presented as a case file. The accumulation is the argument.
Enter the case file →Six installments tracing the religion of Zoroaster back through every recoverable layer of its prehistory — from the Proto-Indo-Iranian liturgy documented in the Gathas and the Rigveda, through the BMAC fire-temples, the Steppe pastoral religion of the Yamnaya and Andronovo, the shamanic substrate of the Ancient North Eurasians, and the ten-thousand-year Zagros Neolithic substrate of the Iranian plateau, to the convergence Zoroaster reformed rather than founded.
Read the series →Future series are being drafted — on the Yashts, on Nowruz, on the priesthood, on what Persia gave Greece.
Series are added when they're ready. The fire is patient.