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Bart Ehrman’s Posts: Relevant Scriptures From ChatGPT on 3/2/2026. Summary of Biblical Perspectives. Across the canon (NRSVUE), several views appear: Below is a structured list of passages in the New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition (NRSVUE) that describe what happens when a person dies. I have grouped them by theological theme, since the biblical witness […]
Continue ReadingThe outline covers 13 chronological events spanning from the giving of the Law at Sinai through the composition of the gospels after 70 CE. Each entry identifies the key figures, describes what happened, and explicitly notes how it connects to the events immediately before and after it in Fredriksen’s argument. The narrative chain Fredriksen is […]
Continue ReadingBelow is based on the book When Christians Were Jews by Paula Fredriksen, pp. 32–41. That portion of her book was copied & pasted from my Kindle version and uploaded to Claude.ai to prepare the outline/summary below. Overview This passage traces a connected chain of political and religious events in Judea from the death of […]
Continue ReadingFrom Marg Mowczko here. Footnotes [1] Widows are always presented in a sympathetic and honourable light in Luke-Acts:
Continue ReadingFrom Bart Ehrman’s textbook The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings (Oxford University Press). I now turn to the longest and apparently most widely read writing [of the Apostolic Fathers] in the collection, called The Shepherd, written by an otherwise virtually unknown Christian named Hermas. Like the book of Revelation in the New Testament, […]
Continue ReadingIn February 2026 at BSA, Mark Goodacre and John Kloppenberg presented opposing lectures about whether or not Q existed. A member of BSA offered a summary of their positions and Goodacre said the summary was better than he could have done. The summary is pasted below. Other members thought the summary was prepared with an […]
Continue ReadingThis post contains the conversation at BSA titled “Jesus sacrifice” started on 2/23/26 by Kimberly Callaway, but first here is an extract from a Bart response to a question. “Technically, if God releases a person from the consequences of their sin based on the death of Jesus he is not “forgiving” (foregoing payment or penalty) […]
Continue ReadingFrom ChatGPT on 2/25/26. In the Synoptic Gospels, the account traditionally called “the rich young ruler” appears in Matthew 19:16–22, Mark 10:17–22, and Luke 18:18–23. Each Gospel contributes one of the three descriptive elements: rich, young, and ruler. Below are the specific verses (NRSV for New Testament citations) that provide each characteristic: 1. He is […]
Continue ReadingBelow is Claude.ai’s 1000-word summary of John S. Kloppenborg’s paper, “On Dispensing with Q? Goodacre on the Relation of Luke to Matthew”. See the PDF copy of the paper in his directory in Dropbox that is embedded below. Also see the PDF file in his directory in Dropbox of his 178-page book Q, the Earliest […]
Continue ReadingBelow is Claude.ai’s summary of Richard Elliott Friedman’s paper titled “Taking the Biblical Text Apart”. A PDF version is in his directory in Dropbox. Overview Richard Elliott Friedman’s article introduces and defends the Documentary Hypothesis, the most widely accepted scholarly explanation for how the first books of the Bible were composed. Rather than being written […]
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