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The source of the above table is unknown. Below is Claude.ai’s timeline. Event Hebrew Bible New Testament Spaces Between Words c. 200 BCE–100 CE c. 200 BCE–100 CE Book Order Standardization HB by c. 2nd century CE by 4th century CE OT – Christian Bible 4th–5th century CE by 4th century CE NT – Christian […]
Continue ReadingTimeline of Jewish History by Mattis Kantor published at Chabad.com. This is a very extensive and detailed timeline of Jewish history
Continue ReadingBelow is a summary by Claude.ai of an interview of John J. Collins by Bart Ehrman titled Surprising Origins of Judaism Before Jesus in advance of Collins’ 20-lecture course at BSA in the summer of 2026. The transcript of the interview sent to Claude.ai is in John Collins’ directory in Dropbox. Prompt: Summarize the attached […]
Continue ReadingBelow is a two-part response from an AI. All claims are grounded in critical historical scholarship, not confessional theology. Part I — Jesus and the Pharisees: Continuity and Rupture 1. Areas of Strong Continuity Most critical scholars agree that Jesus operates largely within a Pharisaic interpretive world, not against Judaism itself. Torah as central authority […]
Continue ReadingThis is a summary prepared by ChatGPT of a BAR article. Below is a chronological timeline of the major events in Andrea M. Berlin, “The Rise of the Maccabees,” Biblical Archaeology Review 49.2 (2023), with historical and archaeological context drawn directly from the article. The original timeline was expanded to integrate events and developments proposed […]
Continue ReadingFrom Bart Ehrman here. … that unlike Paul’s letters, Acts gives us an “absolute date” on which we can (in theory) hang all the relative dates of Paul’s life and itinerary. What I mean by “absolute date” is this: it is one thing to say “Paul did this, then three years later he did that, […]
Continue ReadingText below was extracted from the transcript of Episode 4: Divine Judgment at a very good page at Literature & History web site. Included is an extensive map of the Nile River.
Continue ReadingFrom ChatGPT 12/13/2024 Below is the expanded James vs. Paul timeline with a third column for Peter as a mediating figure, kept within the same historical framework and chronology used by Dr. James Tabor.All New Testament citations are NRSV; Hebrew Bible quotations/allusions are ASV. Historical framing reflects Tabor’s analysis of Second Temple Judaism . James […]
Continue ReadingClick here for an extensive Timeline of Jewish History. The table below was extracted from that page on 5/12/2026.
Continue ReadingClick here for an extensive Timeline of Jewish History. From OpenAI. (2024). ChatGPT [Large language model]. https://chatgpt.com Prompt – Provide a timeline of the Seleucid empire, the Macabean revolt and dynasty, and the Qumran Dead Sea Scroll community. Cite any scripture in from the ASV and list all sources at the end of the response. […]
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