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From ChatGPT on 12/9/2025. Below is a chronological development chart showing how the movement moves from Paul → Post-Pauline Christianity → Ebionite marginalization, based strictly on the materials in the transcript you provided. All citations are included directly in the text. Chronological Development Chart (per Dr. James Tabor) From Paul → Post-Pauline Christianity → Ebionite […]
Continue ReadingThis page contains extracts from the very good article at BAR titled Jesus of History or Jesus of Tradition. The PDF version of it is in his directory in DropBox. The parts below in bold are the interviewer’s voice, and the other is Freyne’s. Red highlighting is mine. Jesus of History vs. Jesus of Tradition. BAR […]
Continue ReadingWas John the Baptist Greater than Jesus? Below is a summary prepared from the transcript of the above video. The transcript is in Tabor’s directory in Dropbox as well as the John the Baptist directory. Below the summary is a listing of the scriptures that support Tabor’s statements per ChatGPT. First Prompt: Summarize the attached […]
Continue Reading9/6/2025 – In this interview with Dr. Chilton, he made many good points, using phrases and thoughts I collected and listed below.
Continue ReadingBelow are two ChatGPT responses that followed two others here. Prompt: Were other Jesus doctrines growing during the time of the writing of John to which the writer of John was responding, and the responses explaining the differences in Jesus’ response to confrontations? Cite all sources. Alternative Jesus Traditions During John’s Composition and Their Influence […]
Continue ReadingThis post contains three Claude.ai responses requested on 5/1/2025, in response to Rob Couch’s exegesis of John 8. A very interesting response is to Prompt 3: Were other Jesus doctrines growing during the time of the writing of John to which the writer of John was responding, and the responses explaining the differences in Jesus’ […]
Continue ReadingFrom Claude.ai 4/28/2025, based on the prompt: How do critical bible scholars explain the different understandings between Paul, Matthew’s Jesus, and the historical Jesus of what’s involved in being in right relationship with God. Cite all sources. Understanding Different Views on Right Relationship with God: Paul, Matthew’s Jesus, and the Historical Jesus This is a […]
Continue ReadingFrom ChatGPT Critical scholars believe that Ananias was a Jewish Christian based on several textual and historical clues in the New Testament, particularly in the descriptions of him in Acts 9 and Acts 22. These clues suggest that Ananias was part of the early movement of Jewish followers of Jesus who maintained strong ties to […]
Continue ReadingFrom ChatGPT 12/13/2024 Below is the expanded James vs. Paul timeline with a third column for Peter as a mediating figure, kept within the same historical framework and chronology used by Dr. James Tabor.All New Testament citations are NRSV; Hebrew Bible quotations/allusions are ASV. Historical framing reflects Tabor’s analysis of Second Temple Judaism . James […]
Continue ReadingThe italicized text below immediately after the bullet is from Bart Ehrman’s post Early Christian Docetism, September 28, 2015. The text following that line is from another of his posts at the cited link. From the surviving documents of the period, there appear to have been five major competing Christologies (= understandings of who Christ […]
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