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Tzitzit refers to the fringes or tassels attached to the corners of a tallit (Jewish prayer shawl) or tallit katan (a smaller garment worn under clothing). These fringes are a physical reminder of the commandments and values in the Torah. From here. Related – What Color Was Tekhelet? – Re: The blue or purple in […]
Continue ReadingThis page contains summaries of interpolations as cited by Bart Ehrman in his podcast here. A transcript of that podcast is in his folder in DropBox. Luke 2:33 Jesus is born and taken to the temple Luke 2:33 Jesus is born and taken to the temple. and there’s a man in there named Simeon who […]
Continue ReadingThe info below was extracted from Wikipedia on 9/9/2024. Suggested locations of the Sermon Traditionally, the Mount of Beatitudes has been commemorated as the physical site at which the sermon took place. Other locations, such as Mount Arbel and the Horns of Hattin, have also been suggested as possibilities. The Mount of Beatitudes The Mount of Beatitudes (Hebrew: הר האושר, Har HaOsher) is a hill […]
Continue ReadingNotes from Ross Nichols teaching with the same title here. 99% of the text on this page is from my transcript of his video. The outline formatting is mine to put his supporting comments into a format I can remember…hopefully. This is a very profound teaching. Everywhere in the text below where “I” makes a […]
Continue ReadingParables of Jesus (All 38 Parables with Verse & Meaning) written by Marko Marina, Ph.D. and posted to BartEhrman.com May 14th, 2024. Mark also has Jesus delivering a series of parables so that other people (outsiders) won’t understand him. In Mk 4:11-12, he says to the disciples: “The secret of the kingdom of God has been given […]
Continue ReadingSubpages to this page are summaries and extracts from Dr. James Tabor’s 16 lectures from his “Christianity Before Paul” series during the winter/spring of 2025. Also, see the page on this site titled Jesus Before Paul and Robyn Faith Walsh’s paper, “A Jesus Before Paul?” All text below is by Dr. James D. Tabor from here. […]
Continue ReadingIn Lesson 4 of Bart Ehrman’s course The Genius of Acts of the Apostles, he says: Historically, it is absolutely the case that the Christian movement began as a kind of Judaism. Jesus himself was Jewish. His followers were Jewish. They kept the Jewish law. They adhered to Jewish customs. Nobody said anything about not […]
Continue ReadingFrom Bart’s post Twelve Days of Christmas Day 8: Why Was Jesus Born of a Virgin in Matthew and Luke? In Matthew’s version, Jesus is born of a virgin because this is what was predicted in the prophet Isaiah, as he explicitly states in Isaiah 1:22-23: “All this happened in order that the word spoken […]
Continue ReadingBy email on 8/18/2024 – BAS editors created this Special Collection specifically for people like you. As a member of the Biblical Archaeology Society Library, you are able to enjoy this remarkable collection of scholarly articles.
Continue ReadingThis post contains the positions of Witherington, Tabor, Charlesworth, and Ehrman. Summary of the info below this table: Scholar Choice Various “For” Arguments Various “Against” Arguments Tabor James James is head of Movement and as his family stays in Jerusalem he, as the oldest, would be caretaker of the family and the one given Jesus’ […]
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