Edward Platt

Freelance

Edward Platt is a regular contributor to the New Statesman and other newspapers and magazines. His latest book is The City of Abraham: History, Myth and Memory, a Journey Through Hebron (2012).

Written by Edward Platt

Painting of an old bare-chested man on a bed with a young naked woman and another older woman attending to him, set in a dimly lit interior.

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Religion

Family feuds

The ancient God of Judaism and Islam was no distant immortal, but a god of domestic life, infertility and fratricide

Edward Platt

Map of Atlantis depicted in an old painting, showing its location near Africa, Hispania and America with an ocean and a ship.

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Ecology and environmental sciences

Out of the deep

From Atlantis to Noah’s Ark, we have long been drawn to stories of submerged lands. What lies beneath the flood myths?

Edward Platt