Jesus was never a solar deity. That was a hare-brained thesis when it was concocted by the German History of Religions school and it’s even more hare-brained now. I’ve read Campbell. He was a good scholar but he didn’t have spiritual eyes. The Jesus story is starkly different from anything that came before.…

Ruth laying at the feet of the sleeping Boaz and asking him to spread his skirt over her has nothing to do with sexual proposition. It’s an ancient Hebrew idiom that’s lost on the Hellenistic mind. She wasn’t offering him sexual favors — she was asking him to act on the availability of the Levirate marriage. In Hebrew…