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This post contains a ChatGPT response to what has occured since the 1961 article titled “The Secret in the Cliffs- A history shrouded in legend for more than eighteen hundred years is now coining to LIFE…” by YIGAEL YADIN. The article is in the Bar Kochba subdirectory in Dropbox. Prompt: In 1961 an article was […]
Continue ReadingFrom Claude.ai on 9/30/2026. Prompt: Where in Proverbs is the text copied from the Egyptian Amenemope? The text you’re thinking of is the Instruction of Amenemope (often spelled Amenemope; “Amenuties” or “Ameniutes” are common misspellings), an Egyptian wisdom text usually dated to the late New Kingdom (c. 1200-1000 BCE). Its relationship to Proverbs is the […]
Continue ReadingJim Palmer, “AI content” posted to Facebook from his book at https://www.amazon.com/Inner-Anarchy-Dethroning-Jesus-Ourselves/dp/1503174484/ “Christianity royally messed up by putting Jesus on a pedestal and creating a religion in his name. By doing so, the Christian religion practically made Jesus into a freak – virgin birth, sinless humanity, God in the flesh, blood sacrifice for humankind’s sins, […]
Continue ReadingThis is a transcript of Bart Ehrman’s answer to the question asked in the Q&A part of his intro lecture for the attendees to NINT 2026. Jen – Was the Revelation included because it was thought to be written by the Apostle John? Bart: That’s what I always used to think until I looked into […]
Continue ReadingThis post contains information about the potential areas of the “wilderness wandering” as viewed by different scholars and those values in comparison to areas of south Alabama. The information was provided by Perplexity AI on 9/29/2026. Prompt: What is the area critical bible scholars say is the “wilderness” where the Israelites wandered for 40 years? […]
Continue ReadingThis post contains this link to the article Recounting the Census: A Military Force of 5,500 (not 603,550) Men by Prof. Ben-Zion Katz M.D. for which a Claude.ai summary is below. The article poses various scholars arguments that the interpretation of 600,000 is wrong. Below that is a prompt/response from Perplexity computing how many generations […]
Continue ReadingFrom ChatGPT on 9/29/2026. Genesis 50 is especially important because it closes the Joseph story while simultaneously opening the problem that Exodus must solve. It also brings together several of the themes we have been following: inheritance, Canaan versus Egypt, Joseph’s special status, the emerging tribal identity, and the transition from the patriarchal family to […]
Continue ReadingChatGPT’s Prompt: How do critical bible scholars view Jacob’s deathbed reorganization of his son’s inheritances as prophetic for the tribal situations that evolve? Cite each son/grandson separately with context of how Jacob’s words relate the the future tribal situations. Cite all sources in line. Response: Critical biblical scholars generally approach Jacob’s final words in Genesis […]
Continue ReadingThis post is a continuation of Chat & Claude responses about the Jacob/Joseph story. Genesis 49 continues several of the major themes we identified in Genesis 48 Genesis 48 and 49 are really a single deathbed reorganization of Jacob/Israel’s family. Chapter 48 deals with Joseph’s two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh; chapter 49 then turns to […]
Continue ReadingFrom ChatGPT. This is part of my conversations with Chat about the Jacob-Joseph-Moses stories. Prompt – Given the history and events in our last three conversations related to Genesis 48, 49, 50 and Exodus, how do critical bible scholars see the time line related to Egypt’s domination of Canaan before, during and/or after the Jacob-Joseph-Moses […]
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