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The below information was extracted from the Bible Nerds forum at BSA. Emphasis is by this web guy. OP is Joseph Nobles. Next Quest for the Historical Jesus: “Armies and Soldiers” by Christopher B. Zeichmann (pp. 284-297), March 28, 2025. Despite a prevalent focus on military forces and members in the primary texts of the […]
Continue ReadingExtracts from The Destruction of Pompeii—God’s Revenge? By Hershel Shanks, 2010 First the dates: The Romans destroyed the Second Temple (Herod’s Temple) on the same date that the Babylonians had destroyed the First Temple (Solomon’s Temple) in 586 B.C.E. But the exact date of the Babylonian destruction is uncertain. Two different dates are given in the Hebrew […]
Continue ReadingFrom Claude.ai on 4/6/2025 based on the prompt: What do critical bible scholars believe can be learned by the use of the four names Sea of Tiberias, Sea of Galilee, Sea of Chinnereth, and Lake Gennesaret in the Gospels? Cite all sources. The Significance of Lake Names in the Gospels The different names used for […]
Continue ReadingExcavating Philistine Gath: Have We Found Goliath’s Hometown? by Aren M. Maeir, Carl S. Ehrlich Three of the five cities of the famous Philistine Pentapolis have long been known—Ashkelon, Ashdod and Gaza. A fourth, Ekron, has recently been confirmed by an inscription, locating it at modern Tel Miqne. Gath, the fifth, remains somewhat of a mystery. We believe […]
Continue ReadingThe Volcano Explains Everything—Or Does It? Does this crater from an ancient volcanic eruption hold the answer to the mysteries of the Exodus? by Manfred Bietak. BAR Article in 2006 with much info to refute a film by Simcha Jacobovici. He has many concerns about the film and those related to the eruption are extracted below: […]
Continue ReadingSearching for Cana: Where Jesus Turned Water into Wine by C. Thomas McCollough Extracts from his post at the BAS Library are below. Khirbet Cana (“the ruins of Cana”), a bare 8.5 miles from Nazareth (and, equally important, 5 mi northeast of Sepphoris) in lower Galilee, has long been identified as New Testament Cana, although not without […]
Continue ReadingThe italicized text below are extracts from the very good post here by Ephraim Stern titled the same as this post. The pdf of that post is embedded at the bottom of this page. His post discusses at length: Opening paragraph – The Bible imagines the religion of ancient Israel as purely monotheistic. And doubtless […]
Continue ReadingThe italicised paragraphs below are from Why Do People Build Walls? The Real Story of Jericho Offers a Surprising Answer by Ian Volner May 30, 2019. The reformatting into a bullet list is by this web guy. After several centuries of habitation, the community that had built the first wall disappeared from the area. Subsequent […]
Continue ReadingFrom ChatGPT Prompt: Which bible verses do critical bible scholars believe are the oldest in the Bible? Cite the scholars and all sources? ChatGPT said: Critical biblical scholars identify certain passages within the Bible as among the oldest based on linguistic, historical, and textual analyses. Notably: The dating of these texts is based on internal […]
Continue ReadingThe extracts below are from John Kloppenborg’s paper, “Jesus, Fishermen and Tax Collectors.” See the PDF in his directory in DropBox. He stresses that there are few records or indicators of how the fishing industry operated in Palestine although there are good records along the Nile. He combined how it operated there with what is known […]
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