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In addition to the Prompt-Response below, see BSA member Marcus Blue’s paper titled “I’ll Have the Eucharist, Hold the Body and Blood,” which is a PDF file in his directory in the Scholars folder in Dropbox. From Claude.ai – Prompt: Were the Corinthians to whom Paul wrote part of a pagan society who believed that to […]
Continue ReadingThe italicised paragraphs below are from Why Do People Build Walls? The Real Story of Jericho Offers a Surprising Answer by Ian Volner May 30, 2019. The reformatting into a bullet list is by this web guy. After several centuries of habitation, the community that had built the first wall disappeared from the area. Subsequent […]
Continue ReadingFrom Claude.ai on 3/18/2025 Jephthah (JEF-thuh, Hebrew masculine name meaning “set free”) appears in the Book of Judges in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. Let me provide context for Jephthah’s story, including the tragic account involving his daughter. Jephthah in the Bible Jephthah appears in Judges 11-12. He was a judge (a military and civil leader) […]
Continue ReadingFrom Claude.ai Prompt: Provide a list of all interpolations cited by Westcott and Hort in their book The New Testament in the Original Greek (1896). Westcott and Hort identified several interpolations (later additions not present in the original text) in their critical edition of “The New Testament in the Original Greek.” In their Introduction and […]
Continue ReadingFrom Claude.ai Paul’s End Times Expectations: Authentic Letters vs. 2 Thessalonians When we compare Paul’s eschatological views (his expectations about the end times) across his undisputed letters with those expressed in 2 Thessalonians, we can observe several significant differences. These differences in eschatological thinking form one of the main reasons why many critical scholars question […]
Continue ReadingFrom ChatGPT Prompt: Which bible verses do critical bible scholars believe are the oldest in the Bible? Cite the scholars and all sources? ChatGPT said: Critical biblical scholars identify certain passages within the Bible as among the oldest based on linguistic, historical, and textual analyses. Notably: The dating of these texts is based on internal […]
Continue ReadingFrom ChatGPT. Prompt: Moses’ birth in the Hebrew bible, with his being saved in a basket lined with bitumen parallels other birth stories for antiquity. What are those stories and their context? The story of Moses’ birth and salvation in a basket lined with bitumen (Exodus 2:1-10) has notable parallels in ancient Near Eastern and […]
Continue ReadingRoss Nichols prepared a horizontal comparison of the Decalogues in Exodus and Deuteronomy embedded below.
Continue ReadingFrom Claude.ai – Timeline of Moses’ Ascents and Descents of the Mountain Note: The timeline reflects the documentary hypothesis divisions between J (Yahwist), E (Elohist), and P (Priestly) sources. Some ascents and descents are implied rather than explicitly mentioned, and the chronological ordering is interpretive as the different sources may present alternative accounts rather than […]
Continue ReadingProvide the J, E, and P scriptures where Moses goes up and down the mountain, the names of the mountain and the difference in what he says and what the Israelites do when he comes down. Provide all sources. The narratives of Moses going up and down the mountain (traditionally identified as Mount Sinai or […]
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