Lost in Translation

Factoid of the day: there are Hebrew acrostics in the Bible, where the first letter of successive lines form the alphabet.

The things that get me out of bed when I read them and my brain starts to churn and make connections

The name S.R. Hadden of Contact is clearly (?) based on Esarhaddon, King of Assyria. See also, the Black Stone of Esarhaddon (and also, from 1925).