From Babylon to the Torah

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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Outline – Abraham to Bar Kochba ***

Click here for an extensive Timeline of Jewish History. Note the dates and events from ChatGPT below have not been reconciled with those in the link timeline. Differences will surely exist. The text below is largely from ChatGPT using different Prompts some of which are cited below. Citation – ChatGPT on 10/27/2024. OpenAI. (2024). ChatGPT […]

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Moses: He did not write it all.

From ChatGPT 10/19/2024 with explanatory supplements by Ross Nichols taken for my transcript in DropBox from his lesson on Youtube titled Did Moses Write the Torah. See embed below. Q: What scriptures shows where Moses did not write the Pentateuch? Several pieces of evidence within the Pentateuch itself suggest that Moses may not have written […]

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Documentary Hypothosis

Friedman’s website includes the page: Thoughts about the Documentary Hypothesis (From the Introduction to Empirical Models for Biblical Criticism, Jeffrey Tigay, Editor). Extracts are as follows. Tigay discusses why it is called the Documentary Hypothesis in his introduction, referring to its hypothetical methodology (p. 2).  Really, it is long past time for us to stop referring to it as […]

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