The Exodus Era: Pharaohs, Plagues, and the Promised Land, Part 6
What Acts 7:22 says about Moses' Egyptian formation, what the surviving records can tell us, and why Senenmut is not our Moses.
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History
History articles from The Curmudgeon’s Chronicle.
Was the American Revolution a Sin?
A Scripture-first case for judging the American Revolution as a chain of distinct moral and constitutional questions rather than one undifferentiated act.
The Exodus Era: Pharaohs, Plagues, and the Promised Land, Part 5
Why Hatshepsut is a strong royal-household candidate for the woman who rescued Moses, and where the evidence requires restraint.
The Exodus Era: Pharaohs, Plagues, and the Promised Land, Part 4
Testing the male-child crisis against Thutmose I and explaining the high 18th Dynasty timetable used in this series.
The Exodus Era: Pharaohs, Plagues, and the Promised Land, Part 3
Why the real geography behind biblical Raamses does not automatically date the Exodus to Ramesses II.
The Exodus Era: Pharaohs, Plagues, and the Promised Land, Part 2
The biblical arithmetic behind Solomon's fourth year, a 1446 BC Exodus, and the decisive age markers in Moses' life.
The Exodus Era: Pharaohs, Plagues, and the Promised Land, Part 1
A Scripture-first opening argument for why 1 Kings 6:1 must govern the Exodus timeline before Egyptian chronology gets a vote.
Unmasking Jack the Ripper: A Fresh Investigation into the Whitechapel Murders, Part 8
Over the past seven weeks, we’ve walked the grim streets of Whitechapel, 1888, chasing the shadow of Jack the Ripper through the murders of the canonical five: Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mar…
Unmasking Jack the Ripper: A Fresh Investigation into the Whitechapel Murders, Part 7
In Part 6, I named Charles Cross – also known as Charles Allen Lechmere – as my top suspect for Jack the Ripper, the man behind the brutal murders of the canonical five in Whitechapel, 1888.
Unmasking Jack the Ripper: A Fresh Investigation into the Whitechapel Murders, Part 6
We’ve walked the blood-soaked streets of Whitechapel, from Mary Ann Nichols’ murder in Buck’s Row to Mary Jane Kelly’s horrific end in Miller’s Court.
Unmasking Jack the Ripper: A Fresh Investigation into the Whitechapel Murders, Part 5
After the double event on September 30, 1888, Whitechapel was a cauldron of fear.
Unmasking Jack the Ripper: A Fresh Investigation into the Whitechapel Murders, Part 4
Three weeks after Annie Chapman’s mutilated body was discovered in the backyard of 29 Hanbury Street, the East End of London was on edge.
Unmasking Jack the Ripper: A Fresh Investigation into the Whitechapel Murders, Part 3
Eight days after Mary Ann Nichols’ lifeless body was found in Buck’s Row, the East End of London was still reeling.
Unmasking Jack the Ripper: A Fresh Investigation into the Whitechapel Murders, Part 2
It’s 3:40 a.m. on August 31, 1888, and the streets of Whitechapel are cloaked in a pre-dawn stillness that feels almost alive with menace.
Unmasking Jack the Ripper: A Fresh Investigation into the Whitechapel Murders, Part 1
In the late summer of 1888, the East End of London was a labyrinth of shadows. Gaslights flickered on narrow, cobblestone streets, casting long, trembling pools of light over the grime of Whitechapel – a district teeming with poverty, de…