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3/21/2025 – Claude.ai prompt in Explanatory mode: What are the differences in modern English and koine Greek? Cite all sources. Modern English and Koine Greek: Key Differences Modern English and Koine Greek represent two linguistic systems separated by both time (about 2,000 years) and linguistic family. Let me explore the major differences between these languages […]
Continue ReadingBelow is the initial prompt to Claude.ai in Explanatory mode and three follow-up prompts asking for examples. The follow-up prompts listed below are separated by double lines. From Claude.ai 3/21/2025. Initial prompt: What do critical bible scholars view of any differences in literary style, word usage and grammer used 2 Thessalonians in comparison to 1 […]
Continue ReadingIn addition to the Prompt-Response below, see BSA member Marcus Blue’s paper titled “I’ll Have the Eucharist, Hold the Body and Blood,” which is a PDF file in his directory in the Scholars folder in Dropbox. From Claude.ai – Prompt: Were the Corinthians to whom Paul wrote part of a pagan society who believed that to […]
Continue ReadingThe italicised paragraphs below are from Why Do People Build Walls? The Real Story of Jericho Offers a Surprising Answer by Ian Volner May 30, 2019. The reformatting into a bullet list is by this web guy. After several centuries of habitation, the community that had built the first wall disappeared from the area. Subsequent […]
Continue ReadingFrom Claude.ai on 3/18/2025 Jephthah (JEF-thuh, Hebrew masculine name meaning “set free”) appears in the Book of Judges in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. Let me provide context for Jephthah’s story, including the tragic account involving his daughter. Jephthah in the Bible Jephthah appears in Judges 11-12. He was a judge (a military and civil leader) […]
Continue ReadingFrom Claude.ai Prompt: Provide a list of all interpolations cited by Westcott and Hort in their book The New Testament in the Original Greek (1896). Westcott and Hort identified several interpolations (later additions not present in the original text) in their critical edition of “The New Testament in the Original Greek.” In their Introduction and […]
Continue ReadingFrom Claude.ai Paul’s End Times Expectations: Authentic Letters vs. 2 Thessalonians When we compare Paul’s eschatological views (his expectations about the end times) across his undisputed letters with those expressed in 2 Thessalonians, we can observe several significant differences. These differences in eschatological thinking form one of the main reasons why many critical scholars question […]
Continue ReadingFrom ChatGPT Prompt: Which bible verses do critical bible scholars believe are the oldest in the Bible? Cite the scholars and all sources? ChatGPT said: Critical biblical scholars identify certain passages within the Bible as among the oldest based on linguistic, historical, and textual analyses. Notably: The dating of these texts is based on internal […]
Continue ReadingFrom ChatGPT. Prompt: Moses’ birth in the Hebrew bible, with his being saved in a basket lined with bitumen parallels other birth stories for antiquity. What are those stories and their context? The story of Moses’ birth and salvation in a basket lined with bitumen (Exodus 2:1-10) has notable parallels in ancient Near Eastern and […]
Continue ReadingRoss Nichols prepared a horizontal comparison of the Decalogues in Exodus and Deuteronomy embedded below.
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