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From the Joel Baden’s Youtube interview. Extract from the video. Emphasis is mine. Episode Description: The Golden Calf incident in Exodus 32 is perhaps the most famous story of rebellion in the Hebrew Bible. It’s presented as the ultimate sin, a moment of profound betrayal just after the Israelites received the law at Mount Sinai. […]
Continue ReadingSummary of the post The Biblical Dates of the Exodus by Claude.ai on 10/16/2026. This is a very good article and worth reading again. Go here to read about the layman author who is a fan of Wright and Laconia. So, read with caution. Main thesis The author argues that the Bible gives no single […]
Continue ReadingThis post contains information about the potential areas of the “wilderness wandering” as viewed by different scholars and those values in comparison to areas of south Alabama. The information was provided by Perplexity AI on 9/29/2026. Prompt: What is the area critical bible scholars say is the “wilderness” where the Israelites wandered for 40 years? […]
Continue ReadingThis post contains this link to the article Recounting the Census: A Military Force of 5,500 (not 603,550) Men by Prof. Ben-Zion Katz M.D. for which a Claude.ai summary is below. The article poses various scholars arguments that the interpretation of 600,000 is wrong. Below that is a prompt/response from Perplexity computing how many generations […]
Continue ReadingFrom ChatGPT on 9/29/2026. Genesis 50 is especially important because it closes the Joseph story while simultaneously opening the problem that Exodus must solve. It also brings together several of the themes we have been following: inheritance, Canaan versus Egypt, Joseph’s special status, the emerging tribal identity, and the transition from the patriarchal family to […]
Continue ReadingThis post contains two prompts and responses from Claude.ai on 9/13/2026. The first response points out interesting tensions and literary seams; i.e. different stories of the same event woven together. The second prompt is a verse-by-verse presentation of assignments to the J, E, and P authors per some scholars. Jump 1st Prompt – What do […]
Continue ReadingFrom ChatGPT on 6/25/2026. Scroll down to read the response to the second prompt: Do any critical bible scholars discuss the idea that the ark served as an idol? 1st Prompt – Does the ark of the covenant in the Hebrew Bible have horns on top and that is where YHWH sits as though it […]
Continue Reading5/18/2026: 1) This is a Claude.ai’s summary of Tabor’s informal lecture to his tour group when at Tamar. The transcript is in his directory in Dropbox. 2) Below the response are links to Deborah Hurn’s video as cited by Tabor. She presents her proposed understand on the descriptions of the journey and reconstruction of how […]
Continue ReadingThis post contains a bio of Hendel and links to his many articles published at BAR where he serves on BAR’s Editorial Advisory Board. He is particularly helpful for historical-critical questions about the development of biblical traditions Ronald S. Hendel is a prominent American Hebrew Bible scholar, biblical philologist, and textual critic, best known for his […]
Continue ReadingThis post contains Claude.ai’s summary of my transcript (in Dropbox) of Richard Friedman’s lecture on BAR/BSA here. I find his views very reasonable of what originally happened and how it came to be the story we know. Here is a summary of Richard Friedman’s argument in approximately 1,000 words: Summary: “The Exodus Based on the […]
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