This is an informal lecture I gave in the monthly Zoom meeting I hold with students in my “Quest for the Historical Paul” course. The course is on-line, you work at your own pace, and as with all of my on-line courses, I meet with the students via Zoom to…
As many of you know I formed a “Tabor Research Community” in 2023 using Patreon…but my approach is different from most. Everyone who joins, at any level, gets the same materials–as I realize people have widely differing financial means, and I am not interested in “selling” my work to those…
In this edited segment of a private study I recently had with my “Tabor Research Group, via Patreon, that offers a theory, still in development, of discovering embedded in our current Greek gospel called Luke, is a pro-Gospel, upon which Luke primarily relied, as he overwrote Mark and added his…

Book of the Month–February 2025: The Moses Scroll: Reopening the Most Controversial Case in the History of Biblical Scholarship
Book of the Month: February 2025 Ross K. Nichols: The Moses Scroll: Reopening the Most Controversial Case in the History of Biblical Scholarship (Horeb Press, St Francisville, LA, 2021). Hardcover, Kindle, Audio. If you like non-fiction mysteries and thrillers that in the end provide you with fascinating and well researched historical materials…
In this final video of the short series dealing with the TOP TEN differences between the texts of the Bible in the Dead Sea Scrolls and our traditional Old Testament or Hebrew Bibles I go through the final Five, ending with what I think might be the most significant textual…
This video is Part I of the COUNTDOWN of the Top Ten Texts of the Bible that differ in the Dead Sea Scrolls and our traditional Old Testament. For an introduction see the previous video: https://youtu.be/u5xZ_odxX5w And be sure you get your copy of the Dead Sea Scrolls Bible for…
I just saw an announcement that my book, Paul and Jesus, was chosen by a poll members of Bart Ehrman’s Biblical Studies Academy for their new monthly book discussion in January. This is one of the “Events” that BSA members can participate in. I know some of you are members…

How Do Texts of the Hebrew Bible from the Dead Sea Scrolls Compare with our Later Traditional Copies?
Get ready for the countdown: Ten Major Variants between the Dead Sea Scroll texts of the Hebrew Bible and that of our traditional Masoretic text–upon which our major English Bibles are based. A very few of these variants are slowly making it into the English texts, but by far the…
Given how often my position on Pantera is distorted into the three things I do not say—namely, that the biological father of Jesus was not Joseph, that Pantera was a Roman soldier who raped Mary, and that his tomb is in German. So, it kind of amazed me to get…
One of my New Year’s resolutions is to resume regular monthly posting as a blogger for the Times of Israel, which has become for me the “paper of record” in the Middle East. I have read both the Jerusalem Post and HaAretz for the past forty years, but lately I…