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[Nan] Shepherd knew the Bible, including the story of the burning bush, well enough to also know the significance of the words I am. When Moses, as we have already noted, is described in the Book of Exodus encountering a bush that is on fire with divine presence without being consumed, he asks, “What is […]
Continue Reading4/20/2026 – Found John Phillip Newell.
Continue ReadingExtracts from a Forum post at BSA here. Below the extracts is a long Response from Claude.ai. Original Post from a new member: I noticed there are strikingly extensive overlaps between Jewish Apocalypticism and Zoroastrianism, the religion of ancient Persia. These overlapping beliefs include (somewhat simplifying): It seems hard to believe that all of this […]
Continue ReadingIn addition to below, see the post with Tabor’s views here. Yochanan HaMatvil–John the Immerser! From Perplexity on 4/16/2026. Q: When was the time Jesus was baptising in the north and John the Baptist in the south, and what scriptures support that, and who are the critical Bible scholars who support it?
Continue ReadingFrom ChatGPT on 4/15/2026. Critical scholars—especially John Dominic Crossan, along with K. C. Hanson and Douglas E. Oakman—argue that several of Jesus’ parables and sayings directly reflect the economic realities of the Galilean fishing and agrarian system centered around Capernaum. Below is a structured mapping of those teachings to that economic context, with sources cited […]
Continue ReadingFrom ChatGPT on 4/15/2026. The statement that Jesus moved to Capernaum appears explicitly in the Gospel of Matthew: Primary Text This is the clearest and most direct reference to Jesus relocating his base of activity to Capernaum. Supporting Context from Other Gospels While they do not explicitly say “he moved,” other Gospels depict Capernaum as […]
Continue ReadingThis post contains a summary by ChatGPT on 4/13/2026 of Mark Goodacre’s YouTube Short titled Did Jesus have a house in Capernaum? The transcript on which this summary is based is in his directory in Dropbox. Following the summary are ChatGPT responses providing context and other scholars’ views and then a list of various versions […]
Continue ReadingFrom ChatGPT on 4/13/2026. Summary of Mark Goodacre’s Youtube Short, “Why is Luke’s Genealogy so Different from Matthew’s?” The transcript that was the basis for this summary is a PDF file in Goodacre’s Dropbox directory. Mark Goodacre explains the differences between the genealogies in the Gospel of Matthew 1 and the Gospel of Luke 3 […]
Continue ReadingThis post contains a post by Michael Waddell to a BAS forum here about when the stories of Abraham were composed. Credit is fully his, other than the added emphasis that is mine and Byron’s comments as pasted at the bottom. I [Michael Waddell] really enjoyed watching Dr. Kent Sparks’ NIHB lecture, where he argued […]
Continue ReadingBelow is a slide from Bart Ehrman’s lecture in NINT 2023 and below that is ChatGPT’s citations of related scriptures to each bullet.
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