https://youtu.be/J8WXIqlIaCc Private video clips from my interviews for the Smithsonian network special “Masada” produced as background for the epic series “The Dovekeepers” Not to be copied or circulated. Used with permission… For the full background on this cave see my blog post: https://jamestabor.com/masada-mysteries-what-do-we-know-about-the-bones/
I recently gave my first lecture on the Historical Mary, mother of Jesus, to a Roman Catholic audience–in this case the Sisters of Maryknoll Institute. This is very in-depth with slides–for those who want to explore in more details the texts, archaeology, and history that shed precious light on the…
In this introductory clip from my on-line course, “Quest for the Historical Paul” we go deep into a full historical consideration of what we know of the mission, message, and texts of the 13th Apostle. The two mystery texts here are Genesis 15:6 and Habakkuk 2:4. You can take a…
The ancient group of Jesus followers referred to as the “Ebionites” or “Nazarenes” were slandered, damned, and declared heretics by the mainstream Christian Orthodox Church Fathers. In this dialogue with filmmaker Kameron Waters, I argue that they may well be one of our best clues to recovering what the original…
https://youtu.be/baAWiUZHnww In this short video Bart Ehrman and I talk about the earliest layers of our New Testament gospel traditions regarding the teachings of Jesus about “Hell” or Gehenna–the Greek word used. Bart is offering a one day, two lecture FREE course on “What the Hell?” You can sign up…
In this interview with Jacob Berman, host of the YouTube channel “History Valley,” we talk about the confusing mix of names used for various Jewish and Jewish-Christian groups from the Dead Sea Scroll group to those oriented around James the brother of Jesus and his successors in the first and…
My lates blog post in The Times of Israel. Whatever you might have thought you had figured out about Pentecost, the Festival of Weeks, or in Hebrew Shavuot–this post will likely complicate things a bit. However, the past point might be the most important in the entire post. https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-shifting-meanings-of-shavuot-pentecost/
In this long form interview with notes and maps I discuss who were the Ebionites? Were John the Baptist, Jesus, and James part of a “stream” of faith and piety that traced back to the Dead Sea Scroll group, and down through a so-called “Christianity,” before, during, in contrast to…
As we move along into what Christians traditionally call “Holy Week”–with both Passover and Easter ahead, I wanted to share a blog post I did back in 2022– with links to just about every aspect of the main events from Palm Sunday through Easter–and thereafter. Here is the main link…
https://youtu.be/E3A_R96EKwg Today is Nisan the first on the Hebrew Calendar–the biblical New Year in the Spring based on Exodus 12:1. Nice time–in the Northern Hemisphere at least, for resolutions and New Beginnings as Spring begins. I recorded this video in late March 2025 when I was in Jerusalem on Nisan…