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Unmaking Eden: Genesis and the Domestication of the World by David M. Carr (Author). Watch for the Kindle version. Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, 7 Weeks. A conversation with John Collins and Joel Baden. C. J. Cornthwaite Interviews – https://www.youtube.com/@cjcornthwaite Links to Ronald S. Hendel’s many articles and two videos at BAS *** Dark Universe – […]
Continue ReadingBelow is a summary produced by ChatGPT, and then a follow-up second response, of the very good article at BAR here. At the end of that second response is this overall conclusion paragraph by ChatGPT. Across multiple categories—deportations, royal status, daily life, economic activity, social mobility, and post-exilic continuity—the cuneiform evidence repeatedly aligns with the […]
Continue ReadingFrom ChatGPT on 11/30/2025. Here is a scholarship-driven account of how the Advent season originated and developed, with sources placed directly in the text. 1. Earliest Evidence: Advent Began as a Fast, Not a Countdown to Christmas The earliest references to something like Advent appear in fourth- and fifth-century Western Christianity, not in the New […]
Continue ReadingThe video below was received from Dr. James Tabor on 11/28/2025. In the email to us, James said: This amazing video, along with the interactive web project linked to it (https://itiner-e.org), are truly wonderful in helping us to better image that ancient Mediterranean world that is the backdrop and stage of most of what many […]
Continue ReadingHere is a summary of the article “The Hittites: Between Tradition and History” from Biblical Archaeology Review (42.2, 2016). Below that is a Chronology as contained in that article. Biblical References and Context Archaeological and Historical Overview Political and Military History Collapse and Neo-Hittites Hittites in Biblical Narratives Religion and Culture Conclusion This article blends […]
Continue ReadingHere is a summary by ChatGPT on 11/26/2025 of Mark Chancey’s article “How Jewish Was Jesus’ Galilee?” Below that response is a second Prompt/Response providing a Chronological Outline. SUMMARY Chancey argues that older claims about Jesus’ Galilee being heavily Hellenized have been overstated. Early excitement over spectacular archaeological finds at Sepphoris and other sites—Greek inscriptions, […]
Continue ReadingThis is a follow-up post to the one immediately before this one here. That post was becoming too long and this one “chases a specific rabbit.” Scroll down for a related prompt: Which scholar said something like “Scholars emphasize that in antiquity, “faith” did not mean “believing ideas in your mind.” It meant embodied loyalty.” […]
Continue ReadingFrom ChatGPT, 11/19/2025. The line you’re looking for is a genuine Latin statement from Augustine, and the most accurate form is: “Si comprehendis, non est Deus.”Translation: “If you understand it, it is not God.” Where Augustine says it:He expresses this idea in several places, most directly in Sermon 117.5, where he insists that any concept […]
Continue ReadingValid Point by Marcus Borg: The documents that now make up the Bible were not sacred when they were written, but over time were declared to be sacred by ancient Israel and early Christianity. The process took about five centuries for the Hebrew Bible and about three centuries for the Christian Testament. From Chat GPT […]
Continue ReadingFrom Claude.ai on 11/3/2025. Location and Context The Song of the Sea is found in Exodus 15:1-18, immediately following the narrative of Israel’s crossing of the Red Sea (or Sea of Reeds) and the destruction of Pharaoh’s army in Exodus 14. The song is sometimes called the “Song of Moses” or “Song of Miriam” (since […]
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