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Here’s a summary of the article with key talking points of the article “Understanding Iron in the Iron Age” — Biblical Archaeology Review, April 6, 2026 by Lauren K. McCormick. A PDF is in the BAS directory in Dropbox. Overview A new study of iron blooms discovered in the Dor Lagoon along Israel’s Carmel Coast […]
Continue ReadingFrom Claude.ai on 3/30/2026, based on the prompt: Provide a timeline of the evolution of Biblical Hebrew as a language and when writing began, up to when prose was being composed. Cite all sources. Claude first produced the second timeline in this post where there is more info about each period. Immediately below is a […]
Continue ReadingPrompt to CLaude.ai on 3/25/2026 – Provide all archaeological findings and any critical bible scholarship related to The Yarwhosians? The civilized Neolithic Yarmukians created some of the world’s earliest clay sculptures. By Yosef Garfinkel, Michele Miller. Cite all sources A quick note [from Claude] before diving in: there are no people or culture known as the “Yarwhosians.” This […]
Continue ReadingThis post contains Claude.ai’s summary of my transcript (in Dropbox) of Richard Friedman’s lecture on BAR/BSA here. I find his views very reasonable of what originally happened and how it came to be the story we know. Here is a summary of Richard Friedman’s argument in approximately 1,000 words: Summary: “The Exodus Based on the […]
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Continue ReadingThis post contains my end-of-class “sermon” delivered at the end of the Preaching & Teaching course by Rev. Dr. Rob Couch at Christ United Church. In it, I told about the history of Micah in Lachish and Moreshet. The Claim – Micah, a prophet from a town southwest of Jerusalem, shared what Jehovah does and […]
Continue ReadingCanaanite Worship at Lachish—New Details Emerge by Itamar Weissbein Extract – Situated in the southern part of the Judean foothills (the Shephelah), Tel Lachish controlled a main road leading from the Mediterranean coastal plain to the mountains of Hebron and Jerusalem in ancient times. In the Hebrew Bible, Lachish is known as an important Canaanite city-state, which […]
Continue ReadingFrom ChatGPT on 2/9/2026. Critical Bible scholars generally explain Deuteronomy 23:3–6 not as a timeless ethnic condemnation, but as a historically conditioned law reflecting Israel’s political, social, and religious relations with neighboring peoples. Their explanations usually fall into three main, overlapping lines of interpretation. Deuteronomy 23:3–73 So the Lord our God also gave into our hands Og […]
Continue ReadingBelow is ChatGPT’s summary of the article Biblical Views: Safeguarding Abraham by Dan Rickett at BAS. Dan Rickett’s article examines how ancient interpreters dealt with a troubling detail in the Abraham and Lot narrative of Genesis 13. In Genesis 12, God promises the land of Canaan to Abraham’s descendants. Yet in Genesis 13, Abraham offers to divide […]
Continue ReadingBelow is a ChatGPT summary of Robert Cargill’s Lecture Segment on Megiddo, “Lecture 4: Babylon and Megiddo” from his lecture series “Cities of the Bible” from BSA. See the transcript, from which this summary was made, in his Dropbox directory. Robert Cargill presents Megiddo as one of the most strategically important sites in the ancient […]
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