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Preface – See the similar, earlier post on this site: Compare the Different Trials of Jesus before Pilate. 7/6/2026 – This post contains a summary of Bart Ehrman’s post Exonerating Pilate to Implicate the Jews, posted July 5, 2026. The summary was prepared by Claude.ai. Claude’s Response – Ehrman’s post traces how the canonical Gospels […]
Continue Reading7/4/2026 – Extracts from the study The Household of Joseph and Clopas – The Family of Jesus and the Case that Joseph Was Alphaeus by Dr. Terry Traster, Pharm.D. Abstract This study reconstructs the family of Jesus as a single multigenerational household and argues, within that frame, that Joseph the husband of Mary was the […]
Continue ReadingThe extract below is from THE NAZARENE CORPUS, A Commentary on the Inscriptions, Volume 1 by Dr. Terry Traster (Pharm.D.) that he shared on June 3, 2026 on Tabor’s Circle platform here. The paper is 100 pages with many large images and comments with a bibliography and sources. [Go https://www.fathersalphabet.com/paleo-hebrew-alphabet-series/tav/ for a discussion about the […]
Continue ReadingFrom Claude.ai on 7/2/2026. This post contains three Responses where the first is a direct comparison and the next are focused on how do critical bible scholars define middle Platonism and Stoicism? PROMPT – Provide a concise comparison of middle Platonism in 1st century BCE to the 1st Century CE to Stoicism. Cite all sources […]
Continue Reading7/2/2026 – From BSA/Bible Nerds here. OP – Origins of “Gnostic” thought? – Avery Barron Jun 12 – Out of raw curiosity I’m wondering if scholars have a picture of why [the suite of cosmological and theological concepts we tend to call] Gnosticism emerged, respectively in contrast to the cosmo/theology of the contemporary orthodoxy. I’ve […]
Continue ReadingThis post has two responses from Claude.ai beginning with a summary of Andrew Lincoln’s article “How Babies Were Made in Jesus’ Time” (Biblical Archaeology Review 40.6, 2014), drawn from his book Born of a Virgin? Reconceiving Jesus in the Bible, Tradition and Theology. The PDF of the article is in Dropbox/Christianity/Virgin Birth directory. Core argument […]
Continue ReadingResponse by Schaun Wheeler on May 22 with a detailed analysis of the reference to Joseph and family returning to Bethlehem for a census. He presents 5 “rhetorical moves” to change the wording into what we find in the story.
Continue ReadingThis post contains a summary by Claude.ai of a detailed post on Dave Allen’s blog titled “ANACHRONISMS IN THE GOSPELS“. Below the summary is the response titled Scholarly Responses to Allen’s 26 Anachronisms from Claude when prompted: Provide the position of critical bible scholars who support or disagree with the positions in the lists. Copied […]
Continue ReadingDid King Ahab Worship Yahweh? Discovered temples complicate biblical story by Lauren K. McCormick; June 29, 2026 in BAS. A Rival to Solomon’s Temple: The Place of Worship at Tel Moẓa Explained by Marek Dospěl, in BAS, September 14, 2021. Samaria – Capital of Israel by Rupert Chapman
Continue ReadingBelow is Claude.ai’s summary of a summary by Joseph Nobles/BSA of Bazzana’s chapter in Paul Within Paganism, not the original article itself. Here’s a summary of what Joe’s summary contains. “Paul among the Other Possessed” — Giovanni B. Bazzana (pp. 121–138 in Paul Within Paganism, ed. Chantziantoniou, Fredriksen, and Young) Summarized by Joseph Nobles of […]
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