OT Books in the Christian Bible
To view the Hebrew Bible page at Wikipedia go here for lists/links to those books. OT Books in the Christian Bible from Wikipedia:
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Jericho’s Conquest per Scholars
Here are two ChatGPT responses that provide scholars and their findings about the historicity of Joshua 6 and the collapse of the walls and killing all men, women, children, and animals. Below the first response are two more prompts: First Prompt: Provide info on Kathleen Kenyon’s work at Jericho revealing no evidence of city walls […]
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Friedman situates Leviticus within the context of the Priestly source (P). See info below about an H (Holiness) Source inside the P material. Freidman does not comment on the H hypothesis. Extracts from Chapter 10, Elizabeth Hayes, Christine. Introduction to the Bible (The Open Yale Courses Series) (pp. 148-149). Yale University Press. Kindle Edition. Formating […]
Continue ReadingWere Yahweh and El Good Buddies?
This page contains significant comments to a post in the Bible Nerds section titled Were Yahweh and El, the Chief god of the Canaanite Pantheon, Good Buddies? at Biblical Studies Academy stemming from the OP by Ron Gamache dated 12/29/2024. Following is a paragraph with the question from the Original Post; Can the biblical scholars […]
Continue Reading10 Commandments Compared with Hammurabi & Shulgi
From OpenAI. (2025). ChatGPT [Large language model]. https://chatgpt.com Prompt: Compare Hammurabi’s code with the code of Shulgi, king of the Sumerian city of Ur, and the Hebrew Bible’s 10 commandments citing sources and dates when critical bible scholars believe each was written. To compare the legal codes of Hammurabi, Shulgi, and the Hebrew Bible’s Ten […]
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High Priests Family Trees
Continue ReadingAnimal Sacrifices: How To Do It
Per Richard Friedman, Leviticus 1 is from the Priestly writer here. Leviticus 1:1-17 ASV 1 And Jehovah called unto Moses, and spake unto him out of the tent of meeting, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When any man of you offereth an oblation unto Jehovah, ye shall offer your […]
Continue ReadingLiteratureandHistory.com Interesting Sections
This page contains links to the ten episodes of his podcast that were devoted to the Tanakh, or Old Testament and lists of subsections in the episodes that I found particularly interesting and insightful.
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From Literature and History.com’s Episode 15: Canaan
Continue ReadingIsaiah by Christine Hayes
Below are three ChatGPT summaries of the Isaiah portion of Yale Professor Haye’s Lecture 17 Literary Prophecy: Hosea and Isaiah. The second half of the lecture shifts to Isaiah and his emphasis on the Davidic Covenant, rather than the Mosaic one, a key distinction between him and Hosea. Themes in Isaiah include the salvation of […]
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