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From ChatGPT on 2/18/2026. Modern biblical scholarship widely recognizes that the accounts of King Hezekiah in 2 Kings 18–20, Isaiah 36–39, and 2 Chronicles 29–32 are closely related parallel narratives. Below is a structured explanation of the similarities, what scholars say, and the context in which those statements are made. Below that is a verse-by-verse […]
Continue ReadingExtract from BartEhrman.com here. A Heart-Rending Story and Stunning Condemnation: The Prophet Hosea December 7, 2025 Bart began with: One of my favorites is Hosea, which tells a heart-wrenching story and delivers an unusually powerful message. The following is an edited version of my discussion in my book The Bible: A Historical and Literary Introduction (Oxford […]
Continue Reading10/9/2025 – This post contains multiple ChatGPT responses that have not been fully vetted. 1st Prompt – Who were the ancient historians who cited prophets, and who were the prophets who proclaimed the miraculous approach of God’s kingdom? 1st Response – Let’s take your question in two parts — (1) ancient historians who cited prophets, […]
Continue ReadingExtract from transcript of Christine Hayes’ lecture 18 Literary Prophecy: Micah, Zephaniah, Nahum and Habbakuk from the Open Yale Courses. Chapter 5. The Book of Habakkuk [00:19:46] The Book of Habakkuk was written during this period, so 600 to the destruction — somewhere in those years. That’s the period in which the Babylonians attacked Jerusalem […]
Continue ReadingElizabeth Hayes, Christine. Introduction to the Bible (The Open Yale Courses Series) (p. 249). Yale University Press. Kindle Edition. The first of the literary prophets, Amos preached in the northern kingdom of Israel during a relatively stable period in the reign of Jeroboam II, around 750 B.C.E., before the Assyrian threat became very apparent. In […]
Continue ReadingIn the Open Yale Courses, Introduction to the OT/Hebrew Bible, Lecture 16, Professor Christine Hayes’ provides a great intro to the Book that she thinks is the first chronologically of the “minor prophets”. The transcript was uploaded to ChatGPT and the following is the summary responses. The Book of Amos is contextualized within Israel’s moral […]
Continue ReadingFrom OpenAI. (2024). ChatGPT [Large language model]. https://chatgpt.com First Prompt: Provide the pros and cons and the related scholars regarding the text we call Jeremiah as a compilation of multiple speeches that the historical Jeremiah prepared and delivered. These are the off the cuff ramblings of an angry man, scholars have long held that these […]
Continue ReadingElizabeth Hayes, Christine. Introduction to the Bible (The Open Yale Courses Series) (pp. 246-247). Yale University Press. Kindle Edition. Emphasis and formatting into a number list is by this web guy. Literary Prophets The period of classical prophecy (or literary prophecy) begins with the eighth-century prophets Amos and Hosea. The last of the literary prophets […]
Continue ReadingExtracts from Christine Elizabeth Hayes’ book Introduction to the Bible (The Open Yale Courses Series) (pp. 269-270). Yale University Press. Kindle Edition. The book of Isaiah is the longest prophetic book, and the interpretation of many passages as symbolic references to Jesus makes it one of the books of the Bible most quoted by Christians. […]
Continue ReadingThe Minor Prophets (in alphabetical order) are Amos, Habakkuk, Haggai, Hosea, Joel, Jonah, Malachi, Micah, Nahum, Obadiah, Zechariah, and Zephaniah. Timeline of Minor Prophets The Decline of the Neo-Assyrian Empire by BAR The 12 Minor Prophets by Brittannica Who Were the Minor Prophets? The Book of Malachi – Paragraphs below are from Britannica.com The book […]
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