Have there been any notable works by scholars that have managed to change the consensus on any issue relating to Bibical Studies in the last decade? If there hasn’t been any, what was the last major work that had large impact on the field or any specific topic in Biblical Studies.

I remember reading a thread here about Daniel 12 and someone cited John Collins and the quote was something like "Early readers would have seen the earlier prophesies come 'true' and thus expected the last 2 would happen." So when the last ones never happened, why did they still read and continue to use Daniel?

Hi everyone,
I wanted to ask whether a claim I found in an Instagram reel is actually true.
This reel says that the phrase “Don’t be afraid” appears 365 times in the Bible. Is this accurate, or is it just a popular myth? Does the answer depend on the translation or on including similar expressions such as “Fear not”?
Thank you all for your help.

Esdras 6:9 says "Esau is the end of this age, and Jacob is the beginning of the age that follows."

Jacob (James) "the Just" was the first leader of the Jesus movement after Jesus died. I wonder whether early Christians would have interpreted this verse from Esdras as indicating that Christianity, led by James the Just, was the beginning of the new age and new creation.

If so, it may help make sense of saying 12 from The Gospel of Thomas:

The disciples said to Jesus, "We are aware that you will depart from us. Who will be our leader?" Jesus said to him, "No matter where you come it is to James the Just that you shall go, for whose sake heaven and earth have come to exist."

In the Bible itself, it's straight forward and all over the place.

I'm just wondering if there's any non-Biblical historically accepted evidence of him establish a Father-Son relation between him and God.

What's the bulk of what we can trace back to him establishing a Father-Son relationship with God without relying on quoting the Bible itself?

What exactly was the relationship between Paul, James and Peter? Were they historically connected to each other or were they isolated? What were the disputes in the early community really about? Did James, Peter and Paul disagree on Jewish law and Gentile Salvation? What does scholarship argue?

Is it known when the concept of conscious postmortem punishment became a prominent aspect of apocalyptic Jewish thought? Any academic citations would be very welcome.

Is it accepted Luke wrote Acts but did not write the Gospel of Luke?

I don't know Greek(maybe it can help), but I have read Dr.Litwa's translation of Marcion's Evangelion, in chapters 4:28-40, Jesus was said to have escaped the people of Nazareth, who were planning to throw him off the cliff, then the scene immediately transitioned to Jesus healing some people and casting out demons. It may be that some parts are unattested, but usually Dr.Litwa would write "..." to signify that there are possibly some unattested material.