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Below is a ChatGPT summary of Robert Cargill’s Lecture Segment on Megiddo, “Lecture 4: Babylon and Megiddo” from his lecture series “Cities of the Bible” from BSA. See the transcript, from which this summary was made, in his Dropbox directory. Robert Cargill presents Megiddo as one of the most strategically important sites in the ancient […]
Continue ReadingFrom ChatGPT on 1/31/2026. For related posts on this site see: Core difference in one sentence Wycliffe translated the Bible into English from Latin; Tyndale translated it into English directly from Hebrew and Greek. That single fact explains most of the differences. John Wycliffe (c. 1380s) Source texts Language and style Purpose and audience Ecclesiastical […]
Continue ReadingExtracts from the PDF version of the article in Tamas Visi’s directory in Dropbox titled The Chronology of John the Baptist and the Crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth: A New Approach by Tamás Visi of the Kurt and Ursula Schubert Centre for Jewish Studies, Palacký University, Olomouc; Thomas-Institute, University of Cologne. 1 The Date of […]
Continue ReadingFrom ChatGPT on 1/29/2026, based on the prompt: Provide an accessible summary of Hegel’s theory and how F.C. Baur movement used Hegel and spawned the Markan Hypothesis. This is my first introduction to these scholars and how their work leads to significantly advanced understandings. Below that response is a second that relates how Papias and […]
Continue ReadingThis post is an intro to a very good article at BAS titled Machaerus: Where Salome Danced and John the Baptist Was Beheaded by Győző Vörös. A PDF copy is in his directory in Dropbox. [Pronunciation with my amateurish phonics: mac-ear-us.] Other elated articles are: Győző Vörös, who has a Ph.D. in architecture, has directed the Machaerus […]
Continue ReadingThis post contains a Claude.ai’s summary of my transcript of the video lecture of John Dominic Crossan’s presented in a video on YouTube that is the same name as this post and is here. Crossan related the evolution of Herod the Great to his son Herod Antipas, who wanted Emperor Tiberius to make him the […]
Continue ReadingExtracts from the BAS article by Jeffrey P. García by the same name. Jeffrey P. Arroyo García is Associate Professor of Biblical Studies at Gordon College. He specializes in the Gospels and Greco-Roman Jewish literature.
Continue ReadingBelow is the ChatGPT produced summary of the very interesting article “Big City, Small Town—Why Size Matters” by John W. Herbst, Ph.D. published in BAR Winter 2025. Herbst points out that the Hebrew bible on has one word for a settlement, no matter how large or small they were. Only recently has archeological data been […]
Continue ReadingBelow is a two-part response from an AI. All claims are grounded in critical historical scholarship, not confessional theology. Part I — Jesus and the Pharisees: Continuity and Rupture 1. Areas of Strong Continuity Most critical scholars agree that Jesus operates largely within a Pharisaic interpretive world, not against Judaism itself. Torah as central authority […]
Continue ReadingThis is a follow-up post to The Rise of the Maccabees & Synagogue-based Torah Instruction at this site. Scroll below this response for one that incorporates the Quram community. Below is a direct contrast between the Maccabean-era synagogue/Torah-institutionalization model and Second Temple priestly continuity models, keeping the focus on critical scholarship and embedding sources directly […]
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