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“Here is my creed: I believe in one God, creator of the universe. That he governs it by his providence. That he ought to be worshipped. That the most acceptable service we can render to him, is doing good to his other children. That the soul of man is immortal, and will be treated with […]
Continue ReadingThis post contains Claude.ai summary of a scholar’s paper about Apostle Thomas and the tradition of his starting of seven churches. Here’s a summary of that chapter: “The Tradition of Seven Churches” — James Puliurumpil Argument and framing Puliurumpil treats the “tradition of seven churches” as one of the key pieces of evidence for St. […]
Continue ReadingThis post contains Claude.ai’s summary of St. Thomas and India: Recent Research. The paper is a scholarly anthology (Fortress Press, 2020, 293 pp.), edited by K.S. Mathew, Joseph Chacko Chennattuserry, and Antony Bungalowparambil, collecting eleven papers presented at an international seminar. The PDF file is in the Terry Traster directory as I downloaded it from […]
Continue ReadingThis post contains two responces from Claude.ai on 8/26/2026. The first prompt is: Critical bible scholars understand that the stories in the book of Genesis continue in the book of Exodus, and there are multiple versions of many stories and multiple versions of the same events in some stories. Provide a list of those duplicates […]
Continue ReadingFrom BAS Newsletter of 8/25/2026. BAS has compiled a remarkable Special Collection, The Biblical Moses. Follow the great scholars’ reasoning in all these articles:
Continue ReadingFrom Claude.ai on 8/24/2026. All emphasis is mine. Christianized Readings in the Protestant Old Testament vs. the Jewish Tanakh This is a well-established area of text-critical and translation scholarship. Critical scholars distinguish between the Hebrew Masoretic Text (which underlies the Jewish Tanakh) and Christian Old Testaments, which historically drew heavily on the Greek Septuagint (LXX), […]
Continue ReadingThis post contains multiple ChatGPT prompts and responses about the scholars differing views on the Joseph-Jacob-Israel story. Jump to: The Joseph story in Genesis 37–50 is one of the most interesting cases where critical scholars distinguish between the literary story we now possess, the older traditions that may lie behind it, and the question of […]
Continue ReadingThis post contains extracts from the BAR article by Ronald Hendel titled King David Loves Bathsheba – Is what the historical David did or said more important than what the Bible relates? Number formating and emphasis is mine. Two links to related post on this site are: For a related issue see the BAR article The […]
Continue ReadingThis post contains Claude.ai’s summary of the BAR article by Ronald Hendle titled Parsing the Divine Name. A PDF copy of it is in his directory in Dropbox. The second response provides scholar’s different inntrepretations of ehyeh ‘ăšer ‘ehyeh. Below that is a Response related to James Tabor followed by one related to Bart Ehrman. […]
Continue ReadingThe summary below was prepared by Claude.ai of the Biblical Archaeology Society article What’s Missing from Codex Sinaiticus, the Oldest New Testament? Compare differences between the King James Version and Codex Sinaiticus. BAS Staff August 18, 2026. Examines the textual differences between Codex Sinaiticus, dated to the mid-fourth century C.E. and the oldest complete New Testament […]
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