A Virtual File Cabinet for Our Studies of Christian Origins & Hebraic Faith
From 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 ReadingFrom Bart Ehrman’s textbook The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings (Oxford University Press). I now turn to the longest and apparently most widely read writing [of the Apostolic Fathers] in the collection, called The Shepherd, written by an otherwise virtually unknown Christian named Hermas. Like the book of Revelation in the New Testament, […]
Continue ReadingFrom Claude.ai on 2/17/2026. Prompt: What is the Apostolic Creed, and how does it relate to the evolution of the Nicaea Creed? [See also the post in this site titled The Councils and Creeds creating the Trinity] Great question — the relationship between these two creeds is often misunderstood. The Apostles’ Creed The Apostles’ Creed […]
Continue ReadingBelow is the Claude.ai summary of the paper Tyndale as Translator by Professor Morna Hooker on 1/13/2026. The full paper, as a Word.doc file, is in her directory in DropBox. It is 15 pages plus Notes & References. Following the summary is a ChatGPT response about Tyndale’s sources.
Continue ReadingBelow is a conversation that began on 12/30/2025 in the Nerds Only Forum at BSA where the participants discussed the bible and how it can be read and used. What remains of scriptural authority after infallibility and univocality collapse OP – Schaun Wheeler – Faith without doubt is just pretext I grew up in and […]
Continue ReadingThis post contains a list of the ten oldest bible manuscripts as cited by Matt Baker in his video. This list was prepared by ChatGPT from the transcript of the video in his directory in Dropbox. Below is a concise summary of the transcript, followed by a numbered list of the ten manuscripts Matt Baker […]
Continue ReadingPsalms 137 (ASV) 8 O daughter of Babylon, that art to be destroyed, Happy shall he be, that rewardeth theeAs thou hast served us.9 Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little onesAgainst the rock. Below from ChatGPT Below is a list of passages in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament that […]
Continue ReadingValid Point by Marcus Borg: The documents that now make up the Bible were not sacred when they were written, but over time were declared to be sacred by ancient Israel and early Christianity. The process took about five centuries for the Hebrew Bible and about three centuries for the Christian Testament. From Chat GPT […]
Continue ReadingExtracts from Bart Ehrman’s Blog post listed below. He takes info for the posts from his book Journeys to Heaven and Hell (Yale University Press, 2022); I discuss 1 Enoch there because it does indeed narrate a visit to the realms of the dead by a mere mortal – unlike anywhere in the Hebrew Bible. He uses […]
Continue ReadingThis post contains multiple ChatGPT responses related to the commonality between Tynsdale’s English translation of the Bible, Shakespeare’s plays and the KJV. Key Observations from the ChatGPT response below.
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