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This post contains excerpts from Bart’s blog of April 8, 2022, titled Did Early Christians Believe in Reincarnation? I include Bart’s comments below in number paragraphs without changing his text. The reason is to separate the examples into unique pieces that show a belief in an after and before life. Bart says:
Continue ReadingExodus 32:14 YLT 11 And Moses appeaseth the face of Jehovah his God, and saith, `Why, O Jehovah, doth Thine anger burn against Thy people, whom Thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a strong hand? 12 why do the Egyptians speak, saying, For evil He brought them out […]
Continue ReadingThis post contains most of James Tabor’s post on 9/20/26 sharing the story and his interpretation of the scriptures. After Tabor’s post is the relevant scriptures from Leviticus 16, Legacy Standard Bible. All emphasis is mine. “Being “washed in the blood of the lamb” has become a more appealing cultural image in our Christian imagination, […]
Continue ReadingThis post stems from a comment by Sean Freyne in a BAR article included in a post on this site here. Key takeaways are: Prompts are: Initial Prompt: Herod changed the high priesthood. He got rid of the Hasmoneans [the previous Jewish rulers] and brought in replacement high priests from outside, from Egypt and from […]
Continue ReadingChatGPT Prompt –– What relationship do critical bible scholars see in the cluster of earthquakes, political upheaval, and plagues in the Mediterranean area that led to the apocalyptic beliefs in the 1st century BCE to 1st century CE? Cite all sources in line. Critical biblical scholars generally do not argue that earthquakes, political upheaval, and […]
Continue ReadingBart Ehrman has a very good series of posts titled “How Can Monotheists Think a Human Could Become God?” that cites cases where in the Hebrew Bible humans are exalted to divine status by YHWH. Below are links to the series of posts, with extracts from his introductions. The posts are extracts from his book How […]
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 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.
Continue Reading7/4/2026 – Extracts from the study The Household of Joseph and Clopas – The Family of Jesus and the Case that Joseph Was Alphaeus by Dr. Terry Traster, Pharm.D. Abstract This study reconstructs the family of Jesus as a single multigenerational household and argues, within that frame, that Joseph the husband of Mary was the […]
Continue ReadingThe extract below is from THE NAZARENE CORPUS, A Commentary on the Inscriptions, Volume 1 by Dr. Terry Traster (Pharm.D.) that he shared on June 3, 2026 on Tabor’s Circle platform here. The paper is 100 pages with many large images and comments with a bibliography and sources. [Go https://www.fathersalphabet.com/paleo-hebrew-alphabet-series/tav/ for a discussion about the […]
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