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Extracts below are from the BAS article Who Are the Nephilim? The Mysterious Beings of Genesis 6 by Ellen White, January 30, 2025. The Nephilim, the product of the sons of god mingling with the daughters of Adam, the great biblical giants, “the fallen ones,” the Rephaim, “the dead ones”—these descriptions are all applied to one group of […]
Continue ReadingFrom Chat GPT on 1/28/2025. Prompt: How do critical bible scholars explain how the original 10 commandments were preserved when the tablets were broken? Cite the names of the scholars and where their argument are recorded. Critical biblical scholars have proposed various explanations regarding the preservation and transmission of the original Ten Commandments after Moses […]
Continue ReadingTwo responses from ChatGPT on 1/28/2025 about the differences followed by a slide from Joel Baden’s course that shows both and color codes the differences. Prompt 1 – Cite the different decalogues in Exodus and Deuteronomy using the ASV. The Decalogues, commonly referred to as the Ten Commandments, are found in two main passages in […]
Continue ReadingFrom Elizabeth Hayes, Christine. Introduction to the Bible (The Open Yale Courses Series) (Chapter 9, p. 128). Yale University Press. Kindle Edition. Modern source theory assigns the varied bodies of legal material found in the Pentateuch to the main biblical sources as follows: In all cases, it is supposed that the sources drew upon much […]
Continue ReadingFrom Yale Bible Study: Back-to-back bits of wisdom that completely contradict each other: From: Enns, Peter. How the Bible Actually Works: In Which I Explain How An Ancient, Ambiguous, and Diverse Book Leads Us to Wisdom Rather Than Answers—and Why That’s Great News (p. 29). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition. Proverbs wasn’t written for twenty-first-century Western churchgoing […]
Continue ReadingWhen God Sleeps By Bernard F. Batto The God of the Bible both rests and sleeps. In this, he resembles other ancient Near Eastern deities. The Hebrew theologians shared a mythic vocabulary with neighboring cultures, but the Hebrew theologians used this vocabulary to elevate their theology to spiritual heights previously unknown. Divine rest following creation is also […]
Continue ReadingLinks in addition to those below this list with extracts. Who Returned First—Ezra or Nehemiah? at BAS by Aaron Demsky, April 1996. Forty-seven years after the Babylonians destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple in 586 B.C.E. and deported many of the people to exile in Babylon, Cyrus the Great, king of Persia, who had conquered the Babylonians and […]
Continue ReadingFrom ChatGPT 1/19/2025. Gog and Magog have been subjects of much scholarly debate and interpretation in biblical studies. Below is a summary of critical scholarly perspectives on these enigmatic figures, drawing from their appearances in the Hebrew Bible and Christian apocalyptic literature: Gog and Magog in Ezekiel 38–39 Textual Context: Gog appears as a leader […]
Continue ReadingFrom Searching for the “Original” Bible. Do the Dead Sea Scrolls help? By Emanuel Tov Were the nations divided according to the number of the sons of God? Did God have sons? (Deuteronomy 32:8) The first 43 verses of Deuteronomy 32 comprise the beautiful poem of Moses. Deuteronomy 32:8 in the King James Version reads: “When the Most High divided to the […]
Continue ReadingBelow is ChatGPT’s summary of the portion of the transcript of her Lecture 23 related to Daniel. See the full transcript in her DropBox directory. Here is a detailed summary of Christine Hayes’ discussion of the Book of Daniel, highlighting its structure, themes, and eschatological significance: Overview The Book of Daniel is considered the most […]
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