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This post contains an extract from James Tabor’s book and two prompt/response from Claude.ai. Extract from Tabor, James D.. Paul and Jesus: How the Apostle Transformed Christianity (p. 22). Simon & Schuster. Kindle Edition. Jesus will always be the center of Christianity, but the “Jesus” who most influenced history was the “Jesus Christ” of Paul, […]
Continue ReadingBelow is Claude.ai’s summary of Dr. Ehrman’s talk. Not Claude did not include the inserted editorial videos. Bart Ehrman’s Argument: From Mark’s Jesus to the Nicene Creed Framing the question Starting point: the Council of Nicaea (325 CE) Working backward to the earliest Gospel: Mark Ehrman’s thesis: how you get from Mark to Nicaea Note: […]
Continue Reading7/18/2026 – This important lecture is in Hebrew, see below for activating English subs and/or a transcript in English. Below the embedded video is Dr. Tabor’s English transcript. All Text below is from his YouTube post. The ratio of Lead isotopes in the bones of those in the Talpiot Jesus Family tomb match the ancient […]
Continue ReadingThis post contains the Claude.ai summary of the transcript of an interview on Dec 12, 2025 of Steve Mason by C.J. Cornwaithe on YouTube here. The transcript is in Steve Mason’s directory in Dropbox. Mason cites five cases where Luke/Acts apparently used Josephus, as that is the simplest reason for the parallels.
Continue ReadingBy Jim Palmer from his Facebook post. Emphasis is mine. Christianity did not simply misunderstand Jesus. It reversed his message. Instead of preserving Jesus as an example of what it means to become fully human, Christianity steadily elevated him beyond humanity itself. It transformed him into a cosmic exception: born of a virgin, the only […]
Continue ReadingJune/July 2026 from a post started by Annette Cloutier titled MARK: Our Earliest Source—for John the Baptist: used as a primary character witness for the validation of Jesus in a in a cosmic dramatic play. Annette’s OP – 1. Mark as Our Earliest Narrative Source for John the Baptist: Mark — writing what I increasingly […]
Continue Reading7/6/2026: from Claude.ai. Be sure to read to the 2nd Prompt – What do critical bible scholars say is why the Gospel of Peter was not in the canon when it is clearly pro-Roman and anti-Judaism? 1st Prompt: Provide quotes and context about how the Gospel of Peter pushes anti-Judaism further. Cite all sources inline. […]
Continue ReadingPreface – See the similar, earlier post on this site: Compare the Different Trials of Jesus before Pilate. 7/6/2026 – This post contains a summary of Bart Ehrman’s post Exonerating Pilate to Implicate the Jews, posted July 5, 2026. The summary was prepared by Claude.ai. Claude’s Response – Ehrman’s post traces how the canonical Gospels […]
Continue Reading7/4/2026 – Extracts from the study The Household of Joseph and Clopas – The Family of Jesus and the Case that Joseph Was Alphaeus by Dr. Terry Traster, Pharm.D. Abstract This study reconstructs the family of Jesus as a single multigenerational household and argues, within that frame, that Joseph the husband of Mary was the […]
Continue ReadingThis post has two responses from Claude.ai beginning with a summary of Andrew Lincoln’s article “How Babies Were Made in Jesus’ Time” (Biblical Archaeology Review 40.6, 2014), drawn from his book Born of a Virgin? Reconceiving Jesus in the Bible, Tradition and Theology. The PDF of the article is in Dropbox/Christianity/Virgin Birth directory. Core argument […]
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