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This post is a follow-up to Part 1 as two responses from Claude.ai summarizing Wheeler’s thesis (Part 1) and the next comparing it to the positions of Ehrman, Tabor, and Goodacre. Below that is a extract from Bart’s blog where scriptures are cited to show a belief at that time in existence before life and […]
Continue ReadingThis post contains a Claude.ai summary of the transcript of the Ross Nichol’s Sunday School on 10/11/2026 titled What Was Jesus’ Bible? What the Gospels Reveal. In this Sunday School session, Ross K. Nichols explores the Scriptures of the late Second Temple period and then conducts a different kind of Gospel survey. Setting aside the […]
Continue ReadingPost to the TRC by James Tabor on 10/12/2026. He is responding to a lot of posts and misinformation in threads at the TRC about the Cochin Matthew from India. He does not see any way it was written before the gMatthew or neither could have been written by an eyewitness. He provides a lot […]
Continue ReadingFrom Claude.ai on 10/6/2026. Prompt: Prepare a table listing the Crucifixion, Resurrection, and Ascension events in each of the four gospels and Acts. Response: I’ve placed Paul’s letters first because they are the earliest writings, roughly 50-60 CE, before any Gospel. The seven letters are Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Philippians, 1 Thessalonians, and […]
Continue ReadingFrom ChatGPT on 4/13/2026. Summary of Mark Goodacre’s Youtube Short, “Why is Luke’s Genealogy so Different from Matthew’s?” The transcript that was the basis for this summary is a PDF file in Goodacre’s Dropbox directory. Mark Goodacre explains the differences between the genealogies in the Gospel of Matthew 1 and the Gospel of Luke 3 […]
Continue ReadingBelow is a slide from Bart Ehrman’s lecture in NINT 2023 and below that is ChatGPT’s citations of related scriptures to each bullet.
Continue ReadingWhat’s Missing from Codex Sinaiticus, the Oldest New Testament?Compare differences between the King James Version and Codex Sinaiticus by BAS Staff, February 19, 2026. Below is the BAS staff’s comparison of the narratives in the KJV and the Codex Sinaiticus. The paragraphs before the table are very interesting but not included here. One other omission in […]
Continue ReadingBart Ehrman published his responses to four questions from different readers in a post titled “Important Questions About Matthew and Paul” on January 20, 2026. Below is Claude.ai’s summary of the four questions and responses. The four are:
Continue ReadingBelow is the ChatGPT summary from the transcript (in his directory in Dropbox) of Dr. James Tabor’s lecture 8 from his course titled Christianity Before Paul: Rediscovering the Jewish Movement of Jesus on MVP in January 2026. Tabor says that Howard’s revised edition responds well to his critics in a large appendix. Overview and focus of […]
Continue ReadingBelow is the summary by Claude.ai of the scholarly article by Mark D. Smith (see PDF in his directory in Dropbox), challenging the traditional dating of Jesus’s birth to 4-6 BCE during Herod the Great’s reign, arguing instead that Jesus was born in 6 CE during Quirinius’s census. In my words, he is giving priority […]
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