“When we use AI to flesh out ideas, we lose the most important part of the writing process: thinking.” – Eve Fairbanks, “The Biggest Tell That Something Was Written by AI,” The Atlantic (5.29.26).
- Dan McClellan looks at “mind-blowing Bible facts” that are not mind-blowing and not facts.
- Robyn Walsh discusses why so many Christian mss come from Egypt. (It’s for a far more mundane reason than some might suppose.)
- Are there dinosaurs in the Bible? No. Eric Eykel provides a bit more explanation and discussion.
- John Collins was interviewed by Bart Ehrman about Judaism before Jesus. (I love Collins’ accent and will sometimes read something he has written with that accent in my head. Now, if someone could record him saying “The Banshee!” a la Darby O’Gill and the Little People, I would be over the moon.)
- Peter, Cephas, and Simon. Three different people? One person? What is going on here? Over at Reconstructed Bible you can read all about it. (I’m not convinced that Simon and Peter/Cephas were two different people. But then, it isn’t clear to me that Cephas was actually named Simon. He may have been if the Gospels are right.)
- James McGrath alerted his audience that his book The A to Z of the New Testament is selling at a discounted price over at Amazon. (Hopefully by the time this Roundup goes up it’s still fairly cheap.) You can read my review of McGrath’s book to whet your appetite.
- C.J. Cornthwaite talks about the idea that the presence of women at the empty tomb is “embarrassing” and, therefore, lends credibility to the Evangelists’ accounts. He makes some really good points.
- Reading!
The Amateur Exegete 