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Below is ChatGPT’s summary of the good article at BAS “How Bad Was Jezebel?” by Janet Howe Gaines (Sept. 18, 2025) Her shorter article in 2010 is here. The article “How Bad Was Jezebel?” by Janet Howe Gaines (Sept. 18, 2025) re-examines the biblical portrait of Queen Jezebel and argues that her infamy owes more […]
Continue ReadingDeciphering Deuteronomy by Ross K. Nichols TV Playlist•11 videos Deciphering Deuteronomy is [Roxss’s] latest in-depth walk through the Torah portions from the Book of Deuteronomy. This featured series offers fresh insights from an academic, historical-critical perspective, including text-critical analysis, source criticism, and engagement with ancient manuscripts such as the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Samaritan […]
Continue ReadingFrom the BAS Library’s page The Sources of Genesis 1–11 According to the Documentary Hypothesis Sidebar to: The Documentary Hypothesis in Trouble Blenkinsopp, Joseph. “The Documentary Hypothesis in Trouble,” Bible Review 1.4 (1985): 22–26, 28–30, 32. Modern source critics usually divide the primeval history in Genesis 1–11—from the Creation through the Tower of Babel— into two major strands or […]
Continue ReadingBelow is a table created by ChatGPT from the slide outline of Lecture 4 of Dr. Joel Baden’s course at BSA, given in Fall 2025. The slide is in his directory in DropBox. Below that are the Burnt Offering Related Verses where God found the aroma pleasing. Another good post here is Flood Stories: Doublets […]
Continue ReadingBelow is from the slides presented by Dr. Joel Baden in Lecture 3 of his course at BSA titled The Hebrew Bible Exploring the Literature of Ancient Israel. Slide 8Wisdom of Amenemope (13th c. BCE) Do not move the markers on the borders of fields…norencroach on the boundaries of a widow. Proverbs 23:10 Do not […]
Continue Reading[Isa 58:6-12 ASV] 6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? 7 Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the […]
Continue ReadingFrom ChatGPT 9/12/2025. In the Hebrew Bible the word Leviathan (לִוְיָתָן, liwyātān) appears as a name for a massive, chaotic sea creature—sometimes poetic, sometimes mythic. Critical scholars generally see it as Israel’s version of the Near Eastern chaos-monster motif rather than a literal zoological animal. Note in two verses, YHWH is playing with Leviathan like […]
Continue ReadingBelow is a popular story that occasionally circulates on social media and is attributed to Albert Einstein. I have no idea if Einstein is responsible for it. A professor at the university asked his students the following question: Everything that exists was created by God? One student bravely answered: “Yes, created by God.” “Did God […]
Continue ReadingFrom ChatGPT on 9/11/2025. This post contains four Prompts/Responses with the prompts listed below. Scroll down to read the responses. 1st Prompt – Are there any critical bible scholars who discuss if evil or satan actually exists, or is what we call evil the absence of God? 2nd Prompt – Why do critical bible scholars […]
Continue ReadingDifficulties in the Noah Story – A great article at TheTorah.com is A Textual Study of Noah’s Flood. The following lists were extracted from there. Below those paragraphs are the verses viewed as J and those viewed as P side-by-side, providing internally consistent texts to show how they form a continuous story. The Noah account […]
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