I've blogged before about "Pan-Babylonianism" -- the idea that the content of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) is basically plagiarized from Babylonian (more widely, Sumero-Mesopotamian) material. No serious biblical studies scholar or Assyriologist believes this...
Zecharia Sitchin
On the Pointless Demand for Alien-Human DNA Testing
Readers of this blog and those who have listened to various interviews I have done this year know that I think the request by Zecharia Sitchin to have Sumerian Queen Puabi 's remains genetically tested to prove her alien heritage is silly. One of the primary problems...
PaleoBabble Exchange with John Halloran, Sumerian Specialist
John Halloran has had a presence on the internet since 1996. He's the scholar who maintains the Sumerian Language Page. On that page one can find his online lexicon (dictionary) of Sumerian. That material was recently printed in hard copy book form and has been...
Guide to Ancient Astronaut PaleoBabble
I'll be on Coast to Coast AM this evening. This time I decided to do something that will help listeners follow the discussion more easily. I've created a sort of quick guide to my basic responses to a range of ancient astronaut paleobabble. It's a one-stop reference...
Zechariah Sitchin’s Contribution to PaleoBabble
L. A. Marzulli recently asked me to contribute to a newsletter he has created. I naturally agreed since he wanted some thoughts on the work of Zecharia Sitchin. Here's my short contribution for PaleoBabble readers: Zecharia Sitchin: Why You Can Safely Ignore Him...
New Nibiru Information . . . Or More PaleoBabble?
I received a lengthy and interesting reply today to my post about the Fantasy Channel. I reproduce the substantive portions of it here for readers: I have been studying various Mesopotamian texts for around 30 years, and there is nothing to indicate that Nibiru is a...
Zecharia Sitchin’s Astronomy Debunked
There are a number of good critiques on the web showing the flaws in Sitchin's discussion of astronomy from the Sumerian and Mesopotamian texts. Here are a few: Chris Siren's page Ian Lawton's analysis Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy website deals with "Planet X" My own...
Exposing the Work of Zecharia Sitchin, Part 2: Does the Bible Have the Gods Creating Humankind?
This is a Sitchin signature teaching. In an effort to marry his notion that the Anunnaki (a group of gods in the Sumero-Mesopotamian pantheon) created humankind to the biblical story, Sitchin teaches that the Bible itself has plural gods creating humankind in Genesis....
Was Cain Fathered by the Devil? No, Wait — Extraterrestrials
I've gotten more emails on this topic than I can shake a stick at, so I've decided to blog it and then just direct people to this post in the future. I don't know who started this on the internet-probably one of those "I found secret knowledge about the Bible" people...
Exposing the Work of Zecharia Sitchin, Part 1: ELOHIM in the Hebrew Bible
Prior to this blog, I created a website devoted to exposing the flawed teachings and research of Zecharia Sitchin. Next to Erik von Daniken, Sitchin is easily the most well-known articulator of the ancient astronaut theory--the idea that the gods of ancient texts and...