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Speculative Scholarship
by the Massey Twins
The Phaistos Disk Cracked?
Here we present the story of our research into the enigmatic Phaistos Disk.

Is the Kensington Stone the Genuine Article?
Here we offer a copy of our article asserting that the Kensington Stone could not have been late 19th century forgery. (This
article appeared in Epigraphic Society Occasional Publications Vol. 24 2004, pp 176-182)

A Secret Religion Rediscovered: The Cult of Balaam
A study of the Balaam tradition in the Hebrew, Arabic, New Testament, and Medieval sources.

God of the Udder: Another Look at El Shaddai
A lexical study of the pertinent words connected to this misunderstood Hebrew term.

Solomon Borrowed their Proverbs!
A study of a possible Arabic origin to elements in the Hebrew Sapiential Tradition.

The 'Daughters of Allah' Identified
A study of the ancient Semitic sources of the pre-Islamic 'Daughters of Allah' condemned in Surat-an-Najm (53).
In this page, you can download and read a number of articles we have written on topics of
sufficient controversy that we have not published them in mainstream and/or peer-reviewed
journals. To see our more conventional scholarship and writings, you can click on the
buttons above. We hope that the articles on this page can provoke thought and help the
academic community arrive at satisfactory solutions to the mysteries we have studied here.