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Below are the slides from Dr. James Tabor’s Countdown of the top 10 differences between the DSSs and the Masoretic Text that is the basis for most versions of the Bible. All italized text is from my transcript of his videos. His video series is: Opening Comments Included: Re: No. 10 — The Masoretic Text […]
Continue ReadingFrom Chat GPT on 1/28/2025. Prompt: How do critical bible scholars explain how the original 10 commandments were preserved when the tablets were broken? Cite the names of the scholars and where their argument are recorded. Critical biblical scholars have proposed various explanations regarding the preservation and transmission of the original Ten Commandments after Moses […]
Continue ReadingFrom Elizabeth Hayes, Christine. Introduction to the Bible (The Open Yale Courses Series) (Chapter 9, p. 128). Yale University Press. Kindle Edition. Modern source theory assigns the varied bodies of legal material found in the Pentateuch to the main biblical sources as follows: In all cases, it is supposed that the sources drew upon much […]
Continue ReadingBelow is ChatGPT’s summary of the portion of the transcript of her Lecture 23 related to Daniel. See the full transcript in her DropBox directory. Here is a detailed summary of Christine Hayes’ discussion of the Book of Daniel, highlighting its structure, themes, and eschatological significance: Overview The Book of Daniel is considered the most […]
Continue ReadingBobby Lane started a conversation at the BSA General Discussion forum on January 7, 2025, about the difference between Israel’s God YHWH and other Gods. Michael Waddell’s comment is worth saving and is copied below. Michael L Waddell In the ancient world, gods were very local. The first mention of YHWH in a non-Hebrew inscription […]
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 ReadingTo Do – Compile the texts highlighted below and read them as the message of Jesus. From Tabor’s Patreon Zoom Mtg on 12/28/2024 – Abbott about goes all the way back to the Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish Christianity, so-called, and so forth, is do we have emerging in all of these texts two very broad […]
Continue ReadingFrom Literature and History.com’s Episode 15: Canaan
Continue ReadingThis page links to a great transcript with links to the podcast at Literature and History.com [For more on Herod the Great’s son Herod Antipas’ rule of the Galilee, see Antipas—The Herod Jesus Knew by Morten Hørning Jensen] Episode 76: Judea Under Herod. 1 hr. 52 min. The Roman client king Herod (c. 73-4 BCE) ruled Judea […]
Continue ReadingFrom OpenAI. (2024). ChatGPT [Large language model]. https://chatgpt.com First Prompt: Provide the pros and cons and the related scholars regarding the text we call Jeremiah as a compilation of multiple speeches that the historical Jeremiah prepared and delivered. These are the off the cuff ramblings of an angry man, scholars have long held that these […]
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