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STEALING KING SAUL’S CORPSE. Philistines hang Saul’s headless body on display in Beth-shan. Israelites from Jabesh grab it at night and bury it under a Jabesh tree. GOLIATH IS DEAD. So is King Saul. And I’m done paraphrasing the stories of …
I challenged AI to a Bible-paraphrasing duel. Then I asked for more candy. I had to know. Can a computer, in the blink of an eye, paraphrase the Bible better than I can? Experiment 1: Ezra in AI I’m working now on paraphrasing the Bible book of …
500 YEARS BEFORE BIRTH OF JESUS. A prophet named Zechariah said a king of peace would one day ride a donkey into Jerusalem. (Casual English Bible map for Zechariah 9) I DEPEND ON GOOGLE. I depend on this company when I want to: find something learn …
I’LL KEEP IT SHORT. I haven’t done an interview for several years. Keith Ferrin, an author and host of BibleTalk interviewed me recently and released the interview last week: Stephen M. Miller on BibleTalk. I should have posted it sooner, …
JERUSALEM. I’ve struggled for years to produce a fairly decent map of Jerusalem. What makes it tough is that we need higher resolution elevation data for tighter scenes like the one pictured here. But it’s not freely available for Israel. …
BORN IN BETHLEHEM. When Jewish scholars 2,000 years ago wanted to find out where the coming Great King would be born, the Messiah, they turned to the prophet Micah. About 700 years before Jesus was born in Bethlehem, a little-known Bible prophet …
WE THOUGHT PAGANS BEAT JESUS TO CHRISTMAS. That’s what historians have taught us: Christians started celebrating Christmas because Romans were already throwing a party to the sun God Sol on December 25. It looks like historians got that wrong. …
ON THE BRINK OF ELECTION DAY there’s a Bible passage I think is appropriate for people of all political persuasions. No matter how this turns out, about half the nation is going to feel like they are losing their country. We might find reason …
I COULD USE SOME VOLUNTEER HELP. For the past several years I’ve been working on an easy-reading Bible paraphrase that people who aren’t Christian can read and understand. Throughout those years, I’ve been paying all the people I …
I SAVED A LIFE TODAY. A dog’s life. It was inconvenient. But she’s now our born-again dog. Four-year-old Maisie (MAY-zee) should have died first thing this morning. My wife and I found out about it late last night. Our daughter told us that one …
THE TITLE IS THE STORY. I’m deep into my paraphrase of the Bible. The New Testament is written. This morning I did the math for my agent. He wanted to know how far I had gotten into the marathon mission of paraphrasing, mapping, and footnoting …
JESUS SHOWS UP 700 years before his birth, in a dramatic prophecy from the Book of Isaiah: Isaiah 53. At least that’s what most Christian scholars seem to say. They say Jesus is the mysterious Servant of God who suffers and dies for the sins of …
