I was idling through an eclectic mix of poetry when I ran into in the Song Of The Sea, a very old section of the Old Testament that uses early (Archaic) Hebrew, probably going back to the 10th BCE or earlier. It is also a beautiful poem that is a part of many Judeo-Christian liturgies.
Here is what I what I ran into in the 6th verse:
“Your right hand, Lord,
was majestic in power.
Your right hand, Lord,
shattered the enemy.“
As a left-hander, I couldn’t help wondering—why is the Lord represented right-handed? Is he (or she) actually so according to Old Testament writers? And what are the biases of these 3,100-year-old writers and their society with respect to handedness?
This quest somehow drove me into a long zigzag search that lasted a year and hundreds of hours of investigation 🙂 Through it I discovered and explored more of the Old Testament, Rabbinical literature (i.e. Jewish theological writings) that I had never known existed, and many obscure philosophers through the Dark Ages, the Middle Ages and into the Age of Enlightenment.
Having spent so much time researching the subject, I felt it would truly be a waste not to share what I had found. This is what this website is about!
Born left-handed 