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June/July 2026 from a post started by Annette Cloutier titled MARK: Our Earliest Source—for John the Baptist: used as a primary character witness for the validation of Jesus in a in a cosmic dramatic play. Annette’s OP – 1. Mark as Our Earliest Narrative Source for John the Baptist: Mark — writing what I increasingly […]
Continue Reading7/6/2026: from Claude.ai. Be sure to read to the 2nd Prompt – What do critical bible scholars say is why the Gospel of Peter was not in the canon when it is clearly pro-Roman and anti-Judaism? 1st Prompt: Provide quotes and context about how the Gospel of Peter pushes anti-Judaism further. Cite all sources inline. […]
Continue ReadingPreface – See the similar, earlier post on this site: Compare the Different Trials of Jesus before Pilate. 7/6/2026 – This post contains a summary of Bart Ehrman’s post Exonerating Pilate to Implicate the Jews, posted July 5, 2026. The summary was prepared by Claude.ai. Claude’s Response – Ehrman’s post traces how the canonical Gospels […]
Continue Reading7/4/2026 – Extracts from the study The Household of Joseph and Clopas – The Family of Jesus and the Case that Joseph Was Alphaeus by Dr. Terry Traster, Pharm.D. Abstract This study reconstructs the family of Jesus as a single multigenerational household and argues, within that frame, that Joseph the husband of Mary was the […]
Continue ReadingFrom Claude.ai on 7/2/2026. This post contains three Responses where the first is a direct comparison and the next are focused on how do critical bible scholars define middle Platonism and Stoicism? PROMPT – Provide a concise comparison of middle Platonism in 1st century BCE to the 1st Century CE to Stoicism. Cite all sources […]
Continue Reading7/2/2026 – From BSA/Bible Nerds here. OP – Origins of “Gnostic” thought? – Avery Barron Jun 12 – Out of raw curiosity I’m wondering if scholars have a picture of why [the suite of cosmological and theological concepts we tend to call] Gnosticism emerged, respectively in contrast to the cosmo/theology of the contemporary orthodoxy. I’ve […]
Continue ReadingThis post has two responses from Claude.ai beginning with a summary of Andrew Lincoln’s article “How Babies Were Made in Jesus’ Time” (Biblical Archaeology Review 40.6, 2014), drawn from his book Born of a Virgin? Reconceiving Jesus in the Bible, Tradition and Theology. The PDF of the article is in Dropbox/Christianity/Virgin Birth directory. Core argument […]
Continue ReadingResponse by Schaun Wheeler on May 22 with a detailed analysis of the reference to Joseph and family returning to Bethlehem for a census. He presents 5 “rhetorical moves” to change the wording into what we find in the story.
Continue ReadingThis post contains a summary by Claude.ai of a detailed post on Dave Allen’s blog titled “ANACHRONISMS IN THE GOSPELS“. Below the summary is the response titled Scholarly Responses to Allen’s 26 Anachronisms from Claude when prompted: Provide the position of critical bible scholars who support or disagree with the positions in the lists. Copied […]
Continue ReadingSummary by Claude.ai of the BAS article “How the Serpent in the Garden Became Satan” Shawna Dolansky | Biblical Archaeology Society. The PDF file of the article is in Dropbox/Satan. Below the summary is the prompt “How do critical bible scholars view the position of the writer of that article?” and the response. Claude says […]
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