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Academic Study of Religions July 28, 2025

How Historical Methods Get us Closer to the Real Jesus

In this Q&A session with Jeremiah Giehl, host of Youtube Channel  @PullingTheThreadPodcast, I address the question of whether critical methods of studying the historical figure of Jesus should be viewed as positive and constructive, or negative and destructive. Check out Jeremiah’s channel, lots of good materials there, and enjoy my…

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Ancient Hebrew History July 27, 2025

Abrahamic Hebrew Faith: God Talk

This is an edited portion of an informal talk I recently gave to my Research Group…see below for link. Based on my newly published book, Restoring Abrahamic Faith, I begin to explore the emerging sense of what “God” meant in texts of the Hebrew Bible. https://youtu.be/q6dViVn3jfI You can find the…

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Christian Origins July 27, 2025

The Fading of the Jesus Family–Phase One

In this beginning video of a new mini-series “The Fading of the Jesus Family,” I begin with one of the earliest stages of writing James and the brothers of Jesus out of the story, as well as Mary Magdalene! It is quite striking–in the New Testament texts we call Luke-Acts.…

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2nd Temple Judaism July 18, 2025

My View of Biblical Faith after 45 Years of Academic Study

In this edited interview with Aaron Abkke and Kameron Waters on Youtube (@AaronAbke ) I take off my “academic” hat for a bit, without discarding it, and talk about a narrative and conceptual “essence” of what I call Abrahamic Faith as reflected in the Hebrew Bible.  Whatever your views I…

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2nd Temple Judaism July 12, 2025

Is Mark the Earliest Surviving JEWISH Text after the Jerusalem Temple Was Destroyed?

In this 2022 lecture I present the view that Mark–which most people think of as one of our earliest Christian texts-is in fact a very JEWISH text–and further, the very first one to be written after the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE, proposing a way to “Follow the God…

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2nd Temple Judaism July 11, 2025

Is this the Face of Jesus? Getting the Facts Straight on the Turin Shroud!

Millions of sincere Christians believe the Turin Shroud offers something very close to a photographic image of the historical Jesus–including selected scientists, Bible scholars, and theologians–and further that it offers tangible scientific proof that Jesus was raised bodily from the dead! But what are the facts. In this video I…

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2nd Temple Judaism July 4, 2025

Making Guitars in Spain and the Holy Grail

My son Nathan, master Luthier (violas and guitars specialty), in Spain, is offering summer courses for learning the craft. You can make your own guitar as part of the course. If you or someone you know might be invested, check out his website and email him–see links in image. I…

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2nd Temple Judaism June 27, 2025

The ONLY Authentic 1st Century Burial Shroud Ever Found in Jerusalem!

In this video I retell with slides the discovery of the ONLY scientifically dated Jewish burial shroud from 1st century Jerusalem every discovered–25 years ago in a tomb south of the Old City in the Valley of Hinnom at Akeldama. It has great relevance to all the attention the medieval…

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2nd Temple Judaism June 27, 2025

Kindle Edition of Restoring Abrahamic Faith Out Today!

Many of you who prefer to read books on Kindle have been asking me when the Kindle edition will be published. I finished it up this afternoon and it is now LIVE on Amazon. Here is the link: https://amzn.to/44os4Dm I prefer holding a physical copy of books I love in…

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2nd Temple Judaism June 12, 2025

But Dr. Tabor, What do YOU Believe?

I woke up this morning to lots of global headlines…report on Iran’s nuclear violations and likely independent strike by Israel, Indian plane crash, Hamas killing Gazans at aid centers, the Badgad situation…reminds me of Steve Earle’s opening lines in his song Jerusalem: “I woke up this morning and none of…

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