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This post is an extract from Bart Ehrman’s post on August 25, 2026 here. He provided concise tables showing the different divisions/presentation of the Hebrew Bible and the English(later Protestant) “Old Testament”. Hebrew Bible/English Old Testament: Charting Their Differences Some blog readers have requested more posts on the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. I’m happy to comply! […]
Continue ReadingThis post contains two responces from Claude.ai on 8/26/2026. The first prompt is: Critical bible scholars understand that the stories in the book of Genesis continue in the book of Exodus, and there are multiple versions of many stories and multiple versions of the same events in some stories. Provide a list of those duplicates […]
Continue ReadingFrom BAS Newsletter of 8/25/2026. BAS has compiled a remarkable Special Collection, The Biblical Moses. Follow the great scholars’ reasoning in all these articles:
Continue ReadingThis post contains extracts from the BAR article by Ronald Hendel titled King David Loves Bathsheba – Is what the historical David did or said more important than what the Bible relates? Number formating and emphasis is mine. Two links to related post on this site are: For a related issue see the BAR article The […]
Continue ReadingThis post contains Claude.ai’s summary of the BAR article by Ronald Hendle titled Parsing the Divine Name. A PDF copy of it is in his directory in Dropbox. The second response provides scholar’s different inntrepretations of ehyeh ‘ăšer ‘ehyeh. Below that is a Response related to James Tabor followed by one related to Bart Ehrman. […]
Continue ReadingBart Ehrman has a very good series of posts titled “How Can Monotheists Think a Human Could Become God?” that cites cases where in the Hebrew Bible humans are exalted to divine status by YHWH. Below are links to the series of posts, with extracts from his introductions. The posts are extracts from his book How […]
Continue ReadingThe source of the above table is unknown. Below is Claude.ai’s timeline. Event Hebrew Bible New Testament Spaces Between Words c. 200 BCE–100 CE c. 200 BCE–100 CE Book Order Standardization HB by c. 2nd century CE by 4th century CE OT – Christian Bible 4th–5th century CE by 4th century CE NT – Christian […]
Continue Reading7/15/2026 – This post is a summary, then a 2nd response by Claude.ai. Summary of the Transcript of Ross Nichols’ YouTube Video, “The Truth About David They Tried to Hide” (Horeb Institute / Sunday School) in his directory in Dropbox. Overview: Nichols compares the parallel accounts of David’s Ammonite campaign in 2 Samuel 11–12 and […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a Claude.ai summary of Emanuel Tov’s article, Searching for the “Original” Bible: Do the Dead Sea Scrolls help? Originally published in Biblical Archaeology Review (40.4, 2014). A PDF copy is in his directory in Dropbox. Central Question Tov asks how reliable the Dead Sea Scrolls’ biblical texts are for reconstructing an “original” Hebrew Bible, […]
Continue ReadingSummary by Claude.ai of the BAS article “How the Serpent in the Garden Became Satan” Shawna Dolansky | Biblical Archaeology Society. The PDF file of the article is in Dropbox/Satan. Below the summary is the prompt “How do critical bible scholars view the position of the writer of that article?” and the response. Claude says […]
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