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From 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. […]
Continue ReadingFrom ChatGPT on 8/14/2026. Prompt – Did the Tyndale’s translation primarily use the Latin Vulgate? No. Tyndale’s translation was not primarily based on the Latin Vulgate. Tyndale’s great significance is precisely that he translated the New Testament primarily from Greek rather than translating the Latin Vulgate into English. The same basic distinction applies to the […]
Continue Reading8/12/2026 – This is a long post with four Prompts/Responses with ChatGPT that began with the idea that James and John sons of Zebedee, were “mending the nets,” and that does not sound like the more strenuous work of deploying and retrieving them. Could that be an indication of their youth? That lead into prompts […]
Continue ReadingBelow is Claude.ai’s summary of Dr. Ehrman’s talk. Not Claude did not include the inserted editorial videos. Bart Ehrman’s Argument: From Mark’s Jesus to the Nicene Creed Framing the question Starting point: the Council of Nicaea (325 CE) Working backward to the earliest Gospel: Mark Ehrman’s thesis: how you get from Mark to Nicaea Note: […]
Continue ReadingFrom Claude.ai on 7/26/2026. Also see Bart’s post here. Background: Indulgences and Church Corruption By the early sixteenth century, the sale of indulgences—documents claiming to reduce or eliminate the temporal punishment for sin—had become a significant source of controversy in the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church’s practice of granting indulgences to provide absolution to sinners […]
Continue ReadingThe source of the above table is unknown. Below is Claude.ai’s timeline. Event Hebrew Bible New Testament Spaces Between Words c. 200 BCE–100 CE c. 200 BCE–100 CE Book Order Standardization HB by c. 2nd century CE by 4th century CE OT – Christian Bible 4th–5th century CE by 4th century CE NT – Christian […]
Continue ReadingIn John Kloppenborg’s directory in Dropbox is the paper titled LUKE ON JESUS, PAUL AND CHRISTIANITY: WHAT DID HE REALLY KNOW? Edited by Joseph VerHeyden and John S. Kloppenborg. Below is Claude.ai’s summary of the paper. The paper and this summary list many examples of Luke’s lack of geographical knowledge of the interior of the […]
Continue Reading7/18/2026 – This important lecture is in Hebrew, see below for activating English subs and/or a transcript in English. Below the embedded video is Dr. Tabor’s English transcript. All Text below is from his YouTube post. The ratio of Lead isotopes in the bones of those in the Talpiot Jesus Family tomb match the ancient […]
Continue ReadingThis post contains the Claude.ai summary of the transcript of an interview on Dec 12, 2025 of Steve Mason by C.J. Cornwaithe on YouTube here. The transcript is in Steve Mason’s directory in Dropbox. Mason cites five cases where Luke/Acts apparently used Josephus, as that is the simplest reason for the parallels.
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