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From the Joel Baden’s Youtube interview. Extract from the video. Emphasis is mine. Episode Description: The Golden Calf incident in Exodus 32 is perhaps the most famous story of rebellion in the Hebrew Bible. It’s presented as the ultimate sin, a moment of profound betrayal just after the Israelites received the law at Mount Sinai. […]
Continue ReadingThis post contains Claude.ai’s summary of the BAS article “Tell Qasile: Harbor Town from the Days of the Judges“ by Amihai Mazar, Biblical Archaeology Review 52.3, 2026. Amihai Mazar is Professor Emeritus in the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. During his career, he has led many excavations, including at Tell Qasile. Tell […]
Continue ReadingThis post contains Claude.ai’s summary of and extracts from the very good article by Paul Davidson: Sheol’s Origins as a Hurrian Goddess of the Netherworld. First is the YouTube embed that is him reading the article while archeological and graphic images help depict the issues. Then there is a Claude generated summary table that preceeds the […]
Continue ReadingFrom Claude on 10/28/2026. Prompt: Provide a list of differences with the supporting verses between the story in Judges 4 and Judges 5 about Deborah, the other people and the events. All verses should be cited in full from the ASV. Judges 4 vs. Judges 5: Differences in the Accounts of Deborah, Barak, Jael, Sisera […]
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Continue ReadingClaude.ai’s summary: “Israelite Origins: The Song of Deborah“ (Biblical Historical Context) Methodological CautionThe author opens by stressing that biblical texts must be checked for ideological bias (Kofoed). Judges reached its final form no earlier than the Assyrian captivity (cf. Judg 18:30), roughly 500 years after the events it describes. Even so, Judges incorporates older sources […]
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 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 […]
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