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This post contains Claude.ai’s summary of the BAR article by Ronald Hendle titled Parsing the Divine Name. A PDF copy of it is in his directory in Dropbox. The second response provides scholar’s different inntrepretations of ehyeh ‘ăšer ‘ehyeh. Below that is a Response related to James Tabor followed by one related to Bart Ehrman. […]
Continue ReadingThe summary below was prepared by Claude.ai of the Biblical Archaeology Society article What’s Missing from Codex Sinaiticus, the Oldest New Testament? Compare differences between the King James Version and Codex Sinaiticus. BAS Staff August 18, 2026. Examines the textual differences between Codex Sinaiticus, dated to the mid-fourth century C.E. and the oldest complete New Testament […]
Continue Reading8/21/2026 – This post contains a ChatGPT response about the hypothesis that Onias III or IV was the Teacher of Righteousness in the Qumran scrolls Prompt – Which critical bible scholars propose that Onias III or IV was the Teacher of Righteousness in the Qumran scrolls? Cite all sources in line. Yes. There are critical […]
Continue ReadingThis post contains two ChatGPT responses related to the use by Terry Traster of the term “byname” and what do scholars mean by it. Terry’s papers on the issues with names where he cited bynames (a new term for me) are in his Dropbox account in the subdirectory Papers on the family of Jesus. The […]
Continue ReadingFrom a Tabor Research Center Member’s post. https://tabor-research-center.circle.so/c/christian-origins-d4ace7/dating-john-s-gospel. Below that is a response from ChatGPT. Hugh Schonfield, the British biblical scholar active in the 1960’s, observed that the opening section of John, starting, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God”, if re-punctuated, makes a “call-and-response” song, i.e., an “antiphonal hymn”. […]
Continue ReadingThe Akhmîm CodexThe Four Texts Buried Together at Panopolis A compilation of public-domain translations, annotated to show what the manuscript itself contains and what has been supplied from other witnesses. Assembled 13 August 2026 The file Dropbox/Christianity/Scholars/Marcus%20Blue/Akhmim_Codex_Four_Texts.pdf in that Dropbox directory was provided by Marcus Blue via Tabor Research Center’s circle web site. Downloaded 8/18/2026. […]
Continue ReadingThis post was extracted from his post: Your God Is More Human Than You Think Feuerbach and the Problem Hiding Inside Every Theology Jim Palmer . Aug 17, 2026 Preface The question of God has loomed large across much of my life and work, although my relationship to the question has changed considerably. There was […]
Continue ReadingBy the end of his presentation, he had built a graphic depicting the interrelationships he described. The final graphic is below. Below is Claude.ai’s summary of the transcript (in his directory in Dropbox) of the above video. Overview This transcript presents C.J. Cornthwaite’s argument that early Christian literature from the first 200 years reveals an […]
Continue ReadingFrom ChatGPT on 8/14/2026. Prompt – Did the Tyndale’s translation primarily use the Latin Vulgate? No. Tyndale’s translation was not primarily based on the Latin Vulgate. Tyndale’s great significance is precisely that he translated the New Testament primarily from Greek rather than translating the Latin Vulgate into English. The same basic distinction applies to the […]
Continue Reading8/12/2026 – This is a long post with four Prompts/Responses with ChatGPT that began with the idea that James and John sons of Zebedee, were “mending the nets,” and that does not sound like the more strenuous work of deploying and retrieving them. Could that be an indication of their youth? That lead into prompts […]
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