Cyndi Norwitz's Blog
March 30, 2025
Gendering God
One of the things I’ve struggled with in The Boat Children, is how to honor Judaism’s history of Goddess worship....
March 11, 2025
Straighten Your Tongue! Ancient Egyptian Insults
When two very different cultures come together, your mind might go to food or clothing or maybe wondering what their...
December 4, 2024
Genders in Judaism
Our modern world is so focused on male and female as the standard division that it seems to many that...
July 2, 2024
Senet and Other Games
Senet (aka the game of passing through) may not be the very oldest of board games, but it was deeply...
June 27, 2023
Proofreading Jewish Texts
As I finish up the editing for my third draft, I’m getting into some of the picky bits. Many of...
June 20, 2023
The Other Side of the Mountain
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June 11, 2023
Magical Birth Bricks
Looking into how Ancient Egyptians gave birth, I wasn’t expecting to run into magical birth bricks. But here we are....
June 6, 2023
Nile Grass & Rushes
Reeds are a fairly generic type of plants. Tall, grasslike, grown in wetlands. They are found in a variety of...
May 23, 2023
How to Make a Hut
We know a lot about making Egyptian pyramids and palaces, and a bit about where skilled workers lived, but what...
May 13, 2023
The Mother Tongue
What languages might the participants of the Exodus spoken and written? This is really a fantasy question because, to answer...
