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This post contains most of James Tabor’s post on 9/20/26 sharing the story and his interpretation of the scriptures. After Tabor’s post is the relevant scriptures from Leviticus 16, Legacy Standard Bible. All emphasis is mine. “Being “washed in the blood of the lamb” has become a more appealing cultural image in our Christian imagination, […]
Continue ReadingThis post is follow up to the post and Genesis 49-50 with scholar’s insights into the cave, whose buried there, and more. Prompt to ChatGPT: In Genesis 49, Jacob wants to be buried in Machpelah. Where is that? Response: Machpelah is traditionally identified with a burial cave at Hebron, in the southern hill country of […]
Continue ReadingFrom Claude.ai on 9/26/2026 Prompt: What do critical bible scholars see in Genesis Chapter 49 and the scenes therein as it relates to what is happening in the previous chapters and how do Jacob’s final words lead into Chapter 50 that flows into Exodus? Cite all sources inline. Response: Genesis 49 as Independent Poetry: Source […]
Continue Reading9/20/2026 – This long post contains a Claude.ai response to my prompt about Jacob, Joseph, his grandsons and the tribes that were given their names as presented in Genesis Chapter 48. Jumps are: Followup posts are: Prompt: In Genesis Chap. 48, the grandsons’s Manasseh and Ephraim, are mentioned and Ephraim recieved the blessing even though […]
Continue Reading9/19/2026 – Claude.ai’s summary of a very good article by Dr. James McGrath titled Exalting Jesus—Did Early Christians Abandon Monotheism? at Torah.com. McGarth says that Paul views Jesus as devine but not being YHWH. Included, are citations of Paul’s writings that show Paul did not view Jesus as YHWH. Author’s ThesisMcGrath argues that Paul’s exalted […]
Continue Reading9/19/2026. Prompt to ChatGPT – The hebrew bible and the NT contain stories that critical bible scholars define as Apocalyptic. Provide a list with a brief context of the primary players and settings of each. Cite all sources in line Response: The important qualification is that “apocalyptic” is a genre designation, not simply a synonym […]
Continue ReadingThis post is a reminder of the extensive correlation of the Gospels’ references to sayings in the Hebrew Bible provided in tabular format by The Horeb Institute. The paper is in the Jesus in the Hebrew Scriptures correlation subdirectory in the Horeb Institute directory in Dropbox. The title page is a follows. Jesus and the […]
Continue ReadingThis post is a followup to my previous post about Jesus’ Life and Upbring. Summary item 7 in that post cites the two completing lenght’s of his ministry; i.e. Mark/Matthew/Luke vs. John. Item 8 cites Irenaeus belief that Jesus lived into his 40s and info about that is below. This post includes three prompts of […]
Continue Reading9/14/2026 – Bart Ehrman posted three posts as listed below. A PDF of each post is in a directory with shortened titles in his directory. As usual his presentation is very helpful and informative. The three PDF’s were uploaded to Claude.ai with the prompt: Summarize the three attached posts into talking points about Jesus’ life […]
Continue ReadingProvided by ChatGPT on 9/13/2026. Dr. John J. Collins,Yale biblical scholar of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish apocalypticism, Daniel, and Second Temple Judaism—here is a curated listening/watch list.
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