About Me

If it hasn't been figured out by now, my name is Petros Koutoupis. I am a researcher, author and software developer by profession. I am also a full-time husband and father. I am a full-blooded Greek fluent in the language, and have been a student of Septuagintal Greek and Biblical Hebrew for quite some time now; with additional knowledge in Aramaic, Ugaritic, and Akkadian grammar. My work focuses specifically on the Iron Age of both Mesopotamian and Levantine history and as of recently Late Bronze Age Greece, leading to a quest to find the origins of our history.

In my recent research, I have been focusing on the Documentary Hypothesis and have made a courageous attempt to place a clearer date to the writings under the author we refer to as the Yahwist (J). As a result, our modern understanding of biblical history had to be re-evaluated for future scholarship. In fact the start of my research has been published in An Adopted Legacy: Neo-Assyrian Origin to Hebrew Lore (2007) and Biblical Origins: An Adopted Legacy (2008). Also confirmed by archaeology, my latest book dates the author to the timeframe surrounding the reign of Hezekiah; specifically between 701 BCE to possibly the end of Hezekiah's reign in 687 BCE. This was during the reign of Sennacherib, king of Assyria and the Neo-Assyrian Empire that controlled the Near East during this period.

Most of my career has been spent in the computer engineering/development field, more specifically UNIX/Linux development. I have been deeply involved in open source development and for years I have been writing code for the Linux kernel, various open source device drivers and applications. A better summary of my technological professional history can be found on LinkedIn. A small list of my open source projects can be found at SourceForge. I am also an entrepreneur and the President of the start up company, Unovyx, LLC.