A Virtual File Cabinet for Our Studies of Christian Origins & Hebraic Faith
Claude.ai’s summary of 10 Things to Know About the Assyrian Empire, Who were the Assyrians? at BAS by Robin Ngo; published on July 17, 2025. The PDF of the article is in the Assyrian Empire directory in Dropbox.
Continue ReadingThis post contains a post by Michael Waddell to a BAS forum here about when the stories of Abraham were composed. Credit is fully his, other than the added emphasis that is mine and Byron’s comments as pasted at the bottom. I [Michael Waddell] really enjoyed watching Dr. Kent Sparks’ NIHB lecture, where he argued […]
Continue ReadingSee Joel Baden’s NIHB 2026 lecture on Genesis 18:23-33 that is the passage where Abraham seems to haggle with God to determine exactly how many righteous people would have to be in Sodom before God would refrain from destroying the city. See the PDF in the Sodom and Gomorrah directory in dropbox of “Shall Not […]
Continue ReadingBelow is ChatGPT’s reformatting of the above interview transcript, cut and pasted from the video. Tabor Interview with Aron on Abrahamic Faith 1. Why write this book? There are so many books about Christianity, and they’re all over the map. They’re very complicated, and I think sometimes people lose sight of the simplicity of the […]
Continue ReadingFrom ChatGPT on 2/9/2026. Critical Bible scholars generally explain Deuteronomy 23:3–6 not as a timeless ethnic condemnation, but as a historically conditioned law reflecting Israel’s political, social, and religious relations with neighboring peoples. Their explanations usually fall into three main, overlapping lines of interpretation. Deuteronomy 23:3–73 So the Lord our God also gave into our hands Og […]
Continue ReadingBelow is ChatGPT’s summary of the article Biblical Views: Safeguarding Abraham by Dan Rickett at BAS. Dan Rickett’s article examines how ancient interpreters dealt with a troubling detail in the Abraham and Lot narrative of Genesis 13. In Genesis 12, God promises the land of Canaan to Abraham’s descendants. Yet in Genesis 13, Abraham offers to divide […]
Continue ReadingBelow are two ChatGPT response on 7/27/2025. First Prompt – What do critical bible scholars such as James Tabor say are the core teachings of Abraham? Cite all sources. Critical Bible scholars such as James Tabor, along with others like Jon Levenson, John Van Seters, and Richard Elliott Friedman, interpret the figure of Abraham in […]
Continue ReadingThis page contains Comments and Responses to the post in BAR immediately below. Geographically Puzzled The article on Sodom (“Where Is Sodom? The Case for Tall el-Hammam,” BAR 39:02) was well reasoned and provocative, but it left me geographically puzzled. It is true that as Abraham and Lot looked down from the area near Ai and Bethel […]
Continue ReadingFrom OpenAI. (2025). ChatGPT [Large language model]. https://chatgpt.com. 2/8/2025. Prompt: Provide information critical bible scholars find in the bible about Abraham related to: physical, emotional, temperament, historical and geographical. Cite all sources. Critical Bible scholars analyze Abraham’s life from multiple perspectives, including his physical description, emotional characteristics, temperament, historical background, and geographical context. Below is […]
Continue ReadingFrom OpenAI. (2024). ChatGPT [Large language model]. https://chatgpt.com Prompt – Provide a timeline with context of any conflict between the Patriarchs and the Canaanites as well as later in the time of the Israelites. Cite all scriptures from the ASV and list all sources at the end of the response. Timeline and Context of Conflicts […]
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