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Click here for an extensive Timeline of Jewish History. From ChatGPT 11/7/2024 with additional prompts on 6/19/2025. Prompt – Provide a timeline of the development of Jewish Christianity citing the source in a separate list including all related scripture. Timeline of the Development of Jewish Christianity Sources and Related Scripture Citations Additional prompt on 6/19/2025. […]
Continue ReadingFrom OpenAI. (2024). ChatGPT [Large language model]. https://chatgpt.com Prompt – Was James the brother of the Lord per Paul also one of the twelve disciples? Cite the scriptures that support the view. The question of whether James, referred to as “the brother of the Lord” by Paul, is one of the Twelve Apostles is a […]
Continue ReadingFrom OpenAI. (2024). ChatGPT [Large language model]. https://chatgpt.com Prompt – Provide a timeline of the various sects of Jewish Christianity citing the escape to Pella to avoid the Romans. Include the locations where it was practiced and key leaders. The history of Jewish Christianity is complex, involving various sects, leaders, and significant events, including the […]
Continue ReadingSee Did Paul Get His Gospel from James and the Apostles Who Knew Jesus? Transcript to YouTube here https://youtu.be/CBqX303SdA8?si=FrcwxNuWbGp__d-c; 34 minutes of Tabor’s Zoom Meeting on Sept. 29, 2024 Posts at Ehrmanblog.org Posts by James Tabor
Continue ReadingSubpages to this page are summaries and extracts from Dr. James Tabor’s 16 lectures from his “Christianity Before Paul” series during the winter/spring of 2025. Also, see the page on this site titled Jesus Before Paul and Robyn Faith Walsh’s paper, “A Jesus Before Paul?” All text below is by Dr. James D. Tabor from here. […]
Continue ReadingClick here for an extensive Timeline of Jewish History. Note the dates and events from ChatGPT below have not been reconciled with those in the link timeline. Differences will surely exist. The initial/base table is from ESV.org. Changes are identified in the footnotes. Note that many of the events are based on Acts. When Acts […]
Continue ReadingThis post contains the positions of Witherington, Tabor, Charlesworth, and Ehrman. Below those long entries is a short paragraph relating to the paper of Marcus Blue, a BSA member. Summary of the info below this table: Scholar Choice Various “For” Arguments Various “Against” Arguments Tabor James James is head of Movement and as his family […]
Continue ReadingBart’s video embedded below provides a 25 minute or so conversation with Megan Lewis hitting the high points of where Josephus mentions Jesus and James his brother. Text below the embed is from the transcript of this video that is in the Scholars/Bart Ehram directory in DropBox. All italicized text below was said by Bart. […]
Continue ReadingBringing James Out of The Shadows by Ben Whiterington Echoes of the Sermon on the Mount in the Book of James – The author cites a line from the Sermon, then cites the parallel in James. Luke Timothy Johnson [an American Catholic New Testament scholar, a Benedictine monk and priest, and historian of early Christianity] is a proponent of an early […]
Continue ReadingBart Ehrman’s Nutshell and More From The Book of James in a Nutshell as the first post in the series on James by Bart Ehrman’s one-sentence, fifty-word summary from here. The Book of James consists of ethical instruction for followers of Jesus who are to live in ways pleasing to God as a way of […]
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