I now have three special Topical Series on Youtube with several in the planning stages. We have a lot of new people joining us in 2024 so I wanted to post these very easy to use links. I invite you to check these out, some of you have followed these…
This wonderful interview with Robert Eisenman, famous Dead Sea Scrolls scholar whose views are out of the mainstream, captures the man, his life, and his ideas. He is relaxed, reminisces, and lays out his basic theory about Christian Origins, Paul, James, and Jesus. Don’t miss this one! Check out his…
I have recently formed a “Research Community” for anyone interested in my academic work. I post several things a week related to my own research and my field in general, whether breaking news, book recommendations, videos, and articles, as well as sharing and discussing inside material even before it is…
Our earliest gospel of Mark implies that Jesus left the Galilee and headed for Jerusalem for Passover in the Spring a few weeks before his death. Based on additional textual sources and geographical references it appears he traveled to the Mt Herman area in the far north, then spent his…
I am most honored and pleased to be invited by the Biblical Archaeology Society to be the host, teacher, and tour guide on their first ever eastern Mediterranean Cruise! The theme of our tour is “The Seafaring Paul in His Jewish Roman World.” This is not a typical “cities of…
https://jamestabor.com/remembering-olof-james-ribb-1946-2006/ This week (January 16th) marked the death of my dearest friend Olof James Ribb eighteen years ago at age 59. I invite you all, my friends, to read about this remarkable soul who was with us all too short a time at the link above. Over the three decades…
Most people think of Jerusalem as the HQ of the emerging Jesus Movement, but the real “Ground Zero” was the city of Capernaum (Kafar Nahum–ancient village of Nahum the prophet) on the Northwest of the Sea of Galilee. It could well be called the official “birthplace” of the Jesus movement–quite…
https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-israel/rethinking-the-pool-of-siloam This article speaks for itself but if Szanton is correct we have all been wrong now for several years. Notably, the excavations of the huge pool with the steps have not turned up what everyone expected. I have taken groups there for years, but in 1962 on my first…
In this video I relate the remarkable discovery in 2000 of a Cave west of Jerusalem, at Suba, that has what might be the earliest art work related to the John the Baptist-Jesus movement–right outside John’s village of Ein Kerem. What we found in our excavations (2000-2006) shed some remarkable…
How many have you watched…? Series 2: Interpretations of Bible Prophecy Through the Ages https://youtu.be/j9Y2ucbaJEs https://youtu.be/IC5sFvrxlmA https://youtu.be/Ims66b91GQw https://youtu.be/-4lrQIcbqc8 https://youtu.be/izTs8lPO09M https://youtu.be/hpBp8l7EtL0 https://youtu.be/IG2ClEE5qqw https://youtu.be/gGhsWsjNSa0 https://youtu.be/wwWgG–1aaE https://youtu.be/OBjqBbi3uP8 https://youtu.be/ooRHT3-yjDc https://youtu.be/y1ac7vItU38 https://youtu.be/t3bqY7Z48So https://youtu.be/Q0n5w4F7Nxw https://youtu.be/vC7TaVPbrw0 https://youtu.be/SXoY9enTMkY https://youtu.be/q9IosIm7ZJ0 https://youtu.be/cBpCYRLyJRA https://youtu.be/J9WJi4VO_44 https://youtu.be/J9WJi4VO_44 https://youtu.be/WGKIZGc237o https://youtu.be/Oaogr-DtKjI https://youtu.be/uSB99qSIi6c https://youtu.be/GjK5kLUhDzM