Tag: Babylon

Babylon and Biblical Traditions

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Below is ChatGPT’s summary of Robert Cargill’s “Lecture 4: Babylon and Megiddo” from his lecture series “Cities of the Bible” from BSA. See the transcript, from which this summary was made, in his directory in Dropbox. The summary does not include his talk about Megiddo, but that is in a separate post. Robert Cargill’s lecture […]

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Was the Babylonian Exile Bad?

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Below is a summary produced by ChatGPT, and then a follow-up second response, of the very good article at BAR here. At the end of that second response is this overall conclusion paragraph by ChatGPT. Across multiple categories—deportations, royal status, daily life, economic activity, social mobility, and post-exilic continuity—the cuneiform evidence repeatedly aligns with the […]

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King Hezekiah, Isaiah, Micah, Babylon and the Shadow Miracle

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For an interesting article at BAR see Hezekiah’s Religious Reform—In the Bible and Archaeology, What was King Hezekiah’s reform like on the ground? by David Rafael Moulis; December 12, 2024. From OpenAI. (2024). ChatGPT [Large language model]. https://chatgpt.com Scroll down to see Follow-up prompts: Initial Prompt – How do the actions of King Hezekiah in the Hebrew […]

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From Babylon to the Torah

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Below are multiple ChatGPT requests/responses as cited here where the second and third response is drilling deeper into the first response. The sources for each response are listed separately at the bottom of this page. Prompt – Provide information about how the Persians defeated the Babylonians. The defeat of the Babylonians by the Persians, led […]

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