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Out of Egypt: Israel’s Exodus Between Text and Memory, History and Imagination Watch full-length lecture videos as dozens of top scholars discuss Exodus research at a 2014 UCSD conference Noah Wiener March 11, 2014
Continue ReadingThis is the follow up post to Part 1 posted this morning. Below are more Claude.ai responses addressing specific doctrines scholars say were developed long after the many books were written and “Church Fathers” choose the books that could be used to support the Doctines they deemed correct. Summary from Below: A broader compiled list. […]
Continue ReadingThis post stems from a comment by Sean Freyne in a BAR article included in a post on this site here. Key takeaways are: Prompts are: Initial Prompt: Herod changed the high priesthood. He got rid of the Hasmoneans [the previous Jewish rulers] and brought in replacement high priests from outside, from Egypt and from […]
Continue ReadingWatched 8/31/2026 – Very Good To Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldCWtO8uNjs
Continue ReadingThis is a very long post beginning with a BSA post titled Gnosticism 101 by Keith P. Myers then followed by multiple Claude.ai’s comments about Keith’s explanation and then filling into how christianity, plantonism, and other beliefs evolved.
Continue ReadingThis 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 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. […]
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