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This post is a followup to the post What Was Jesus’ Bible? What the Gospels Reveal and is Claude.ai’s summary of Ross Nichols follow-up SS lesson titled Mose’s in Red Letters. Ross’ intent was to understand how Jesus used the scrolls they had at that time.
Continue ReadingThis post contains a Claude.ai summary of the transcript of the Ross Nichol’s Sunday School on 10/11/2026 titled What Was Jesus’ Bible? What the Gospels Reveal. In this Sunday School session, Ross K. Nichols explores the Scriptures of the late Second Temple period and then conducts a different kind of Gospel survey. Setting aside the […]
Continue ReadingFrom Claude.ai on 10/7/2026. Provide a table that lists the different creation and flood myths in the Ancient Near East and Mesopotamia. Include a brief summary of the story and characters amd when each is estimated to have been written and where. Include a column citing where scholars believe each one contributed to the Hebrew […]
Continue ReadingFrom Claude.ai on 9/30/2026. Prompt: Where in Proverbs is the text copied from the Egyptian Amenemope? The text you’re thinking of is the Instruction of Amenemope (often spelled Amenemope; “Amenuties” or “Ameniutes” are common misspellings), an Egyptian wisdom text usually dated to the late New Kingdom (c. 1200-1000 BCE). Its relationship to Proverbs is the […]
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 ReadingChatGPT’s Prompt: How do critical bible scholars view Jacob’s deathbed reorganization of his son’s inheritances as prophetic for the tribal situations that evolve? Cite each son/grandson separately with context of how Jacob’s words relate the the future tribal situations. Cite all sources in line. Response: Critical biblical scholars generally approach Jacob’s final words in Genesis […]
Continue ReadingThis post is a continuation of Chat & Claude responses about the Jacob/Joseph story. Genesis 49 continues several of the major themes we identified in Genesis 48 Genesis 48 and 49 are really a single deathbed reorganization of Jacob/Israel’s family. Chapter 48 deals with Joseph’s two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh; chapter 49 then turns to […]
Continue ReadingFrom ChatGPT. This is part of my conversations with Chat about the Jacob-Joseph-Moses stories. Prompt – Given the history and events in our last three conversations related to Genesis 48, 49, 50 and Exodus, how do critical bible scholars see the time line related to Egypt’s domination of Canaan before, during and/or after the Jacob-Joseph-Moses […]
Continue ReadingAbraham’s Eight CrisesBy Larry R. Helyer The Binding or Sacrifice of IsaacBy Robin M. Jensen Parallel Lives: The Trials and Traumas of Isaac and IshmaelBy Curt Leviant The Patriarch Jacob—An “Innocent Man”By Carl D. Evans Rachel and LeahBy Samuel Dresner
Continue ReadingThis post is Claude.ai’s summary on 9/22/2026 of an essay by Marc Zvi Brettler and Amy-Jill Levine published and downloaded from TheTorah.com at the links below. The essay presents a core Jewish-Christian divide that is a puzzle: many Jews find the Christian belief in atonement through Jesus’s blood strange, while many Christians assume Jews lack […]
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