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From the BAS Library’s page The Sources of Genesis 1–11 According to the Documentary Hypothesis Sidebar to: The Documentary Hypothesis in Trouble Blenkinsopp, Joseph. “The Documentary Hypothesis in Trouble,” Bible Review 1.4 (1985): 22–26, 28–30, 32. Modern source critics usually divide the primeval history in Genesis 1–11—from the Creation through the Tower of Babel— into two major strands or […]
Continue ReadingBelow is a table created by ChatGPT from the slide outline of Lecture 4 of Dr. Joel Baden’s course at BSA, given in Fall 2025. The slide is in his directory in DropBox. Below that are the Burnt Offering Related Verses where God found the aroma pleasing. Another good post here is Flood Stories: Doublets […]
Continue ReadingBelow is from the slides presented by Dr. Joel Baden in Lecture 3 of his course at BSA titled The Hebrew Bible Exploring the Literature of Ancient Israel. Slide 8Wisdom of Amenemope (13th c. BCE) Do not move the markers on the borders of fields…norencroach on the boundaries of a widow. Proverbs 23:10 Do not […]
Continue ReadingFrom ChatGPT 9/14/2025 before Rob Couch’s sermon on the book and the prophet. Critical scholars treat Joel as a small prophetic book whose date, setting, and purpose are not obvious from the text itself, so they focus on four main issues: 1. Date and Historical SettingJoel never mentions a king, foreign oppressor, or clear historical […]
Continue ReadingFrom ChatGPT 9/12/2025. In the Hebrew Bible the word Leviathan (לִוְיָתָן, liwyātān) appears as a name for a massive, chaotic sea creature—sometimes poetic, sometimes mythic. Critical scholars generally see it as Israel’s version of the Near Eastern chaos-monster motif rather than a literal zoological animal. Note in two verses, YHWH is playing with Leviathan like […]
Continue ReadingFrom ChatGPT on 9/11/2025. This post contains four Prompts/Responses with the prompts listed below. Scroll down to read the responses. 1st Prompt – Are there any critical bible scholars who discuss if evil or satan actually exists, or is what we call evil the absence of God? 2nd Prompt – Why do critical bible scholars […]
Continue ReadingDifficulties in the Noah Story – A great article at TheTorah.com is A Textual Study of Noah’s Flood. The following lists were extracted from there. Below those paragraphs are the verses viewed as J and those viewed as P side-by-side, providing internally consistent texts to show how they form a continuous story. The Noah account […]
Continue Reading9/6/2025 – In this interview with Dr. Chilton, he made many good points, using phrases and thoughts I collected and listed below.
Continue ReadingBart Ehrman’s Series of Posts Genesis and the Moses Story By Konrad Schmid, Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Judaism, University of Zurich, Switzerland, October 2010 Genesis and the Moses story were two competing myths of origin for Israel that were literarily and conceptually independent from each other. They both explained in different ways how […]
Continue ReadingThis post contains multiple prompts from ChatGPT on 9/1/2025. Along with the misappropriations, the responses at the end shows how he combined Hebrew Bible verses to create a different meaning. The responses drill further into Paul’s use and abuse of the Hebrew Bible. NOTE: The link to the source below cited as Scribd goes to […]
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