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Below is a summary by Claude.ai on 7/28/2026 of a paper by SBA member Marcus Blue titled I’ll Have the Eucharist, Hold the Body and Blood, The Jewish Table of Blessing, the Pauline Alteration, and the Recovery of the Original Meal. The paper is in his directory in DropBox. Marcus is a DDS and independent […]
Continue ReadingFrom Claude.ai on 7/26/2026 – Prompt: Does Crossan, in other documents or interviews, or other critical bible scholars, see differences in the Greek of the we passages and the rest of Luke/Acts? Cite all sources in line. Response: Short answer: yes — this is actually the central pillar of the whole “we-passages” debate, and it […]
Continue ReadingThis post contains the “We” passages from Acts extracted in order to show how they flow as one script, indicating they were inserted from a source who knew the Mediterranean and seafaring. This post stemmed from the post with a summary of a Dom Crossan interview here. Many scholars consider these passages central to the […]
Continue ReadingThis post contains Claude.ai’s summary of the transcript of JD Crossan’s interview on the History Valley podcast titled Luke Lied: He Never Traveled With Paul And Acts is Fictional!. That title does not represent what I found in the interview. Dom was explaining his view that Luke/Acts must be read as one 2-volume work with […]
Continue ReadingChatGPT Prompt –– What relationship do critical bible scholars see in the cluster of earthquakes, political upheaval, and plagues in the Mediterranean area that led to the apocalyptic beliefs in the 1st century BCE to 1st century CE? Cite all sources in line. Critical biblical scholars generally do not argue that earthquakes, political upheaval, and […]
Continue ReadingEach Gospel handles the baptism differently, progressively downplaying John’s role: From here. In Part 3 he presents the progression taken by early Christians in moving the exaltation backward in time. From here. Compilation Book Jesus’ baptism by John the Baptist Jesus becoming Divine Potential Date?? Paul/Romans No Mention first: at the resurrection 50’s Mark Straightforward […]
Continue ReadingBart Ehrman has a very good series of posts titled “How Can Monotheists Think a Human Could Become God?” that cites cases where in the Hebrew Bible humans are exalted to divine status by YHWH. Below are links to the series of posts, with extracts from his introductions. The posts are extracts from his book How […]
Continue ReadingThis post contains an extract from James Tabor’s book and two prompt/response from Claude.ai. Extract from Tabor, James D.. Paul and Jesus: How the Apostle Transformed Christianity (p. 22). Simon & Schuster. Kindle Edition. Jesus will always be the center of Christianity, but the “Jesus” who most influenced history was the “Jesus Christ” of Paul, […]
Continue ReadingBelow is Claude.ai’s summary of Dr. Ehrman’s talk. Not Claude did not include the inserted editorial videos. Bart Ehrman’s Argument: From Mark’s Jesus to the Nicene Creed Framing the question Starting point: the Council of Nicaea (325 CE) Working backward to the earliest Gospel: Mark Ehrman’s thesis: how you get from Mark to Nicaea Note: […]
Continue ReadingFrom Claude.ai on 7/26/2026. Also see Bart’s post here. Background: Indulgences and Church Corruption By the early sixteenth century, the sale of indulgences—documents claiming to reduce or eliminate the temporal punishment for sin—had become a significant source of controversy in the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church’s practice of granting indulgences to provide absolution to sinners […]
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