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Dante Muhammad is an independent researcher whose work explores sacred geography, ancient Near Eastern history, and the shared narrative landscapes of the Hebrew Bible and the Qur’an. He studies how wells, ridges, trade routes, famine cycles, and contested borders shaped the world of the patriarchs and prophets—not as distant mythology, but as lived history.

His debut book, We Were Not Looking: Land, Covenant, and the Forgotten World of the Patriarchs, argues that sacred narratives are rooted in real terrain and real political pressures. Drawing on archaeology, hydrology, ancient law, and historical geography, he invites readers to rediscover the land beneath the text. As he writes, “The problem was never the text. The problem was that we we ...more

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We Were Not Looking: Reconstructing the Patriarchal World Through Ancient Near Eastern Context

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Dante Muhammad said: " As the author, I wanted to share the “why” behind this research.

For years, I kept returning to a simple question: What happens when we stop treating the patriarchal narratives as stories floating above the land, and instead read them through the phys ...more "

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