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Below is by Claude.ai on 9/6/2026. My Prompt: I was told there are ten passages in the Hebrew Bible that predict the Messiah’s arrival and what he is supposed to do. Provide those ten and others if critical bible scholars identify more. Include the scriptures based on the WASB. Cite all sources in line. Response: […]
Continue ReadingThe Jesus Beneath Christianity What happens when we separate a first-century Jewish teacher from two thousand years of theology? By Jim Palmer from his email of September 4, 2026. All emphasis below is mine. Preface Last night, twenty-one people enrolled in the Existential Health Practitioner Training and Certification Course gathered together for the first time. […]
Continue ReadingThis post contains two ChatGPT responses related to the use by Terry Traster of the term “byname” and what do scholars mean by it. Terry’s papers on the issues with names where he cited bynames (a new term for me) are in his Dropbox account in the subdirectory Papers on the family of Jesus. The […]
Continue ReadingFrom a Tabor Research Center Member’s post. https://tabor-research-center.circle.so/c/christian-origins-d4ace7/dating-john-s-gospel. Below that is a response from ChatGPT. Hugh Schonfield, the British biblical scholar active in the 1960’s, observed that the opening section of John, starting, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God”, if re-punctuated, makes a “call-and-response” song, i.e., an “antiphonal hymn”. […]
Continue ReadingThis is the third post in my interest in the ages of the disciples and their apparant youth. This post is the last of a long ChatGPT conversation on 8/7/2026. The conversation digs into the age ranges of the 12 disciples and others. That first post led to the second related to how James must […]
Continue ReadingThis post is a follow-up to Part 1 and the middle of a long ChatGPT conversationconcluding with Part 3; all on 8/7/2026. The conversation digs into the age ranges of the 12 disciples and others. ChatGPT Prompt – Given that background, does scholarship see significance that James, Jesus brother and the 2nd oldest child in […]
Continue Reading8/1/2026 – This long post contains 4 responses from Claude.ai that begin with Paul’s 1 Cor 15:3–5, the earliest written testimonies to the resurrection, predating the Gospels by decades. The second response is why that text is not believed to be Paul’s creation and how that makes it closer to Jesus. The third response is […]
Continue ReadingFrom Jim Palmer’s Facebook channel on 7/31/2026. Jim Palmer I find it curious that nearly every creed of the Church, whether the early ecumenical creeds, the Roman Catholic catechisms, or the countless Protestant statements of faith, is primarily concerned with defining theological propositions about Jesus. They tell us what to believe concerning his nature, his […]
Continue ReadingBelow is a summary by Claude.ai on 7/28/2026 of a paper by SBA member Marcus Blue titled I’ll Have the Eucharist, Hold the Body and Blood, The Jewish Table of Blessing, the Pauline Alteration, and the Recovery of the Original Meal. The paper is in his directory in DropBox. Marcus is a DDS and independent […]
Continue ReadingFrom Claude.ai on 7/21/2026. First Prompt – What do critical bible scholars say about how Paul and Jesus understood different biblical traditions, as Jesus would have understood the Bible in Hebrew or in Aramaic, whereas Paul’s biblical tradition is the Greek Bible? First Response – This is one of the more well-developed observations in critical […]
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