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8/1/2026 – This long post contains 4 responses from Claude.ai that begin with Paul’s 1 Cor 15:3–5, the earliest written testimonies to the resurrection, predating the Gospels by decades. The second response is why that text is not believed to be Paul’s creation and how that makes it closer to Jesus. The third response is […]
Continue ReadingBelow is a summary by Claude.ai on 7/28/2026 of a paper by SBA member Marcus Blue titled I’ll Have the Eucharist, Hold the Body and Blood, The Jewish Table of Blessing, the Pauline Alteration, and the Recovery of the Original Meal. The paper is in his directory in DropBox. Marcus is a DDS and independent […]
Continue ReadingThis post contains Claude.ai’s summary of the transcript of JD Crossan’s interview on the History Valley podcast titled Luke Lied: He Never Traveled With Paul And Acts is Fictional!. That title does not represent what I found in the interview. Dom was explaining his view that Luke/Acts must be read as one 2-volume work with […]
Continue ReadingThis post contains an extract from James Tabor’s book and two prompt/response from Claude.ai. Extract from Tabor, James D.. Paul and Jesus: How the Apostle Transformed Christianity (p. 22). Simon & Schuster. Kindle Edition. Jesus will always be the center of Christianity, but the “Jesus” who most influenced history was the “Jesus Christ” of Paul, […]
Continue ReadingFrom Claude.ai on 7/26/2026. Also see Bart’s post here. Background: Indulgences and Church Corruption By the early sixteenth century, the sale of indulgences—documents claiming to reduce or eliminate the temporal punishment for sin—had become a significant source of controversy in the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church’s practice of granting indulgences to provide absolution to sinners […]
Continue ReadingClaude.ai’s Summary: The Martyrdom of Polycarp (Bart Ehrman) PDF is in his Dropbox directory. This piece is Ehrman’s introduction to his translation of The Martyrdom of Polycarp for his Harvard University Press collection The Apostolic Fathers. What the text is The document is presented as a letter from the church of Smyrna to the church […]
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 Reading7/15/2026 – This post is a summary, then a 2nd response by Claude.ai. Summary of the Transcript of Ross Nichols’ YouTube Video, “The Truth About David They Tried to Hide” (Horeb Institute / Sunday School) in his directory in Dropbox. Overview: Nichols compares the parallel accounts of David’s Ammonite campaign in 2 Samuel 11–12 and […]
Continue Reading7/12/2026 – Below is a summary of a post by Bart Ehrman on his blog site here. A PDF titled 2 Clement.pdf of the article is in his Directory in Dropbox. Ehrman on 2 Clement Bart Ehrman’s piece (adapted from his Loeb Apostolic Fathers introduction) surveys 2 Clement, which he argues is the earliest surviving […]
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