Explore demo­graph­ic dis­par­i­ties in bib­li­cal accounts, focus­ing on Gen­e­sis, Exo­dus, and Num­bers. Through tex­tu­al scruti­ny and math­e­mat­i­cal mod­els, unrav­el the enig­mas of ancient Israelite soci­ety. Dis­cov­er the del­i­cate bal­ance between nar­ra­tive tra­di­tion and empir­i­cal evi­dence, shed­ding light on his­tor­i­cal complexities.

It is well known that the Gospel of Mark con­tains numer­ous geo­graph­i­cal errors. This is summed up in Küm­mel’s clas­sic, Intro­duc­tion to the New Tes­ta­ment : [T]he con­sid­er­a­tions against this assumption…

There is a prob­lem with this pas­sage, how­ev­er : the rit­u­al wash­ing of hands was oblig­a­tory only on the priests ! So the ques­tion remains, if the author was a native of Pales­tine and a Jew, then how was he so igno­rant of the Jew­ish cus­toms and made such a fun­da­men­tal error regard­ing a prac­tice that was only lim­it­ed to the Jew­ish priests ?

There is an attempt by each writer of the Syn­op­tic Gospels to either re-cor­rect or present their own ver­sion of what they per­ceive to be the ​“accu­rate” sto­ry of Jesus’…

In Acts 5:36, Gamaliel is record­ed to have said as fol­lows con­cern­ing the Jew­ish revolt of Theudas against the Roman Empire : Pro gar toutoon toon heemeroon anes­tee Theudas legoon einai…