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Below is a summary by Claude.ai on 7/28/2026 of a paper by SBA member Marcus Blue titled I’ll Have the Eucharist, Hold the Body and Blood, The Jewish Table of Blessing, the Pauline Alteration, and the Recovery of the Original Meal. The paper is in his directory in DropBox. Marcus is a DDS and independent […]
Continue ReadingThis post contains the “We” passages from Acts extracted in order to show how they flow as one script, indicating they were inserted from a source who knew the Mediterranean and seafaring. This post stemmed from the post with a summary of a Dom Crossan interview here. Many scholars consider these passages central to the […]
Continue ReadingThis post contains Claude.ai’s summary of the transcript of JD Crossan’s interview on the History Valley podcast titled Luke Lied: He Never Traveled With Paul And Acts is Fictional!. That title does not represent what I found in the interview. Dom was explaining his view that Luke/Acts must be read as one 2-volume work with […]
Continue ReadingEach Gospel handles the baptism differently, progressively downplaying John’s role: From here. In Part 3 he presents the progression taken by early Christians in moving the exaltation backward in time. From here. Compilation Book Jesus’ baptism by John the Baptist Jesus becoming Divine Potential Date?? Paul/Romans No Mention first: at the resurrection 50’s Mark Straightforward […]
Continue ReadingBart Ehrman has a very good series of posts titled “How Can Monotheists Think a Human Could Become God?” that cites cases where in the Hebrew Bible humans are exalted to divine status by YHWH. Below are links to the series of posts, with extracts from his introductions. The posts are extracts from his book How […]
Continue ReadingThis post contains an extract from James Tabor’s book and two prompt/response from Claude.ai. Extract from Tabor, James D.. Paul and Jesus: How the Apostle Transformed Christianity (p. 22). Simon & Schuster. Kindle Edition. Jesus will always be the center of Christianity, but the “Jesus” who most influenced history was the “Jesus Christ” of Paul, […]
Continue ReadingFrom Claude.ai on 7/26/2026. Also see Bart’s post here. Background: Indulgences and Church Corruption By the early sixteenth century, the sale of indulgences—documents claiming to reduce or eliminate the temporal punishment for sin—had become a significant source of controversy in the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church’s practice of granting indulgences to provide absolution to sinners […]
Continue ReadingClaude.ai’s Summary: The Martyrdom of Polycarp (Bart Ehrman) PDF is in his Dropbox directory. This piece is Ehrman’s introduction to his translation of The Martyrdom of Polycarp for his Harvard University Press collection The Apostolic Fathers. What the text is The document is presented as a letter from the church of Smyrna to the church […]
Continue ReadingThe source of the above table is unknown. Below is Claude.ai’s timeline. Event Hebrew Bible New Testament Spaces Between Words c. 200 BCE–100 CE c. 200 BCE–100 CE Book Order Standardization HB by c. 2nd century CE by 4th century CE OT – Christian Bible 4th–5th century CE by 4th century CE NT – Christian […]
Continue ReadingIn John Kloppenborg’s directory in Dropbox is the paper titled LUKE ON JESUS, PAUL AND CHRISTIANITY: WHAT DID HE REALLY KNOW? Edited by Joseph VerHeyden and John S. Kloppenborg. Below is Claude.ai’s summary of the paper. The paper and this summary list many examples of Luke’s lack of geographical knowledge of the interior of the […]
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