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10/29/2026 – The italicized text below was extracted from Jim Palmer’s Substack post of Sept. 04, 2026 here. The post in PDF format is also in his directory in DropBox. All emphasis is mine. Communities preserve important figures by interpreting them. Memories become stories, stories become traditions, traditions become doctrines, and doctrines eventually become institutions. […]
Continue ReadingSummary by Claude.ai using the transcript in his directory in DroBox.: CJ Cornthwaite, “A gospel fragment matches John word-for-word. Egerton Gospel” ThesisCornthwaite presents the Egerton Gospel (P.Egerton 2 + P.Köln VI 255) as an early, non-Gnostic gospel fragment that resembles John in sayings and the Synoptics in narrative framing. He says it “could even be […]
Continue ReadingFrom Claude.ai based on the extract (italised below) from the last post, Paul, Origen, and Augustine by Paula Fredriksen. Prompt: Expand your comment: Origen. Because he asks how God can be just in punishing sin, he gives a God who is all-powerful, wants everyone saved, and throws no creature away. His God is a teacher […]
Continue ReadingSummary by Claude.ai using my transcript of the video embedded below. The transcript is in her Directory in DropBox. Prompt: Summarize the attached transcript particularly noting Paula’s comments about the changes in the perception of God as the belief about sin evolved. She has talked and written about this in other places so pull from […]
Continue ReadingThis post is the transcript of a Youtube Short by Mark Goodacre titled “Born again or From Above”. He says the Greek word clearly means from above as “being born from above, being a citizen of heaven, that’s one of the key messages of John’s Gospel.“ Scroll past the transcript for ChatGPT’s long and interesting […]
Continue ReadingFrom Claude.ai on 10/6/2026. Prompt: Prepare a table listing the Crucifixion, Resurrection, and Ascension events in each of the four gospels and Acts. Response: I’ve placed Paul’s letters first because they are the earliest writings, roughly 50-60 CE, before any Gospel. The seven letters are Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Philippians, 1 Thessalonians, and […]
Continue ReadingThis post is a Claude.ai summary of the Misquoting Jesus pod cast of 10/2/206. The transcript is in his directory in Dropbox. The summary enumerates the issues Bart Ehrman thinks are most significant in the KJV v.1611. Summary: Bart Ehrman on the KJV 1611 Source: Ehrman & Lewis, “KJV is a Literary Masterpiece and a […]
Continue ReadingThis post contains a ChatGPT response to what has occured since the 1961 article titled “The Secret in the Cliffs- A history shrouded in legend for more than eighteen hundred years is now coining to LIFE…” by YIGAEL YADIN. The article is in the Bar Kochba subdirectory in Dropbox. Prompt: In 1961 an article was […]
Continue ReadingThis post is Claude.ai’s summary on 9/22/2026 of an essay by Marc Zvi Brettler and Amy-Jill Levine published and downloaded from TheTorah.com at the links below. The essay presents a core Jewish-Christian divide that is a puzzle: many Jews find the Christian belief in atonement through Jesus’s blood strange, while many Christians assume Jews lack […]
Continue ReadingThis post is Claude.ai’s summary on 9/19/2026 of an essay by Marc Zvi Brettler and Amy-Jill Levine published and downloaded from TheTorah.com at the links below. The essay presents a core Jewish-Christian divide: Christianity’s belief that Jesus is both messiah and God’s “only begotten” son, versus Judaism’s rejection of a divine “son of God” as […]
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