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From Claude.ai on 3/31/2026. This response also contains info related to the origins of the Last Supper. Critical scholars do not broadly support the Last Supper as a point of continuity between Jesus and Paul. Here is what the scholarship actually says: The Core Problem: Paul Is the Only Primary Source The first written description […]
Continue ReadingFrom Claude.ai – Present how critical bible scholars support the belief that the main task of the Messiah is to regather the tribes of Israel, to gather the nations and pull them back to the one God, and turn them to the way of the ancient Torah. Isaiah 2 and 11, Jeremiah 16, Jeremiah 3, […]
Continue Reading3/22/2025 – In the 28-minute video embedded below, Dr. James Tabor shared yesterday, he explains why he believes Paul’s version of the Last Supper changed the meal from Jesus showing his disciples they again share a meal when the Kingdom comes. Paul changed it to be a ritual for the Corinthians who had turned the […]
Continue ReadingParagraphs below were extracted from https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/didache.html. There are many extracts from other scholars at the page. Burton Mack notes two interesting features of the text of the Didache. One concerns alms, and the other concerns the Eucharist. Of the first, Mack writes (Who Wrote the New Testament?, p. 240): “There are several interesting features of […]
Continue ReadingThis page contains summaries of interpolations as cited by Bart Ehrman in his podcast here. A transcript of that podcast is in his folder in DropBox. Luke 2:33 Jesus is born and taken to the temple Luke 2:33 Jesus is born and taken to the temple. and there’s a man in there named Simeon who […]
Continue ReadingFrom Bart Ehrman Luke 22:19-20 contains the Last Supper speech. Scribes inserted atonement after Luke removed it. Bart discusses the issues in the podcast as well as his post Why Would a Scribe Change Luke’s Account of the Last Supper? September 30, 2015. and the followup articles here and here. The passage has to do […]
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