In this Preface I lay out a bit of autobiographical history that took me from my evangelical Christian college days as a Greek and Biblical Studies major to where I find myself now, many decades later, in my quest for a better historical understanding of the Mary/John the Baptizer/Jesus/James “movement”…
Was the Oldest and Most Significant Dead Sea Scroll Mistakenly Declared a Forgery in 1883? I am inviting you to a special live Youtube presentation by Ross K. Nichols, author of the 2021 book, The Moses Scroll, today at 11:30 EST, with discussion following. Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/live/L6ZGaFgZc0I If…
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…
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…
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…
Take a trip with me today on the “Biblical Time Machine,” piloted by producer David Roos and the brilliant Prof. Helen Bond. One of my favorite podcasts! Be sure and visit, browse the episodes, you will be hooked! https://www.biblicaltimemachine.com From Helen and Dave: Every good churchgoer knows that after we…
Here is some original archive footage, unedited, made by my team who visited there on September 15, 1996. The quality is not the best, having been filmed nearly 30 years ago with a video camera. Is this a forgery or might it go back to ancient times? There is a…
The entire tale in the book of Genesis of Adam and Eve eating the forbidden fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil has been portrayed as the FALL OF Humanity from God’s Grace and Favor. It is quite the opposite. In this video I examine the…
I learned this single CORE idea from Jonathan Z. Smith, the greatest historian of religion of our time, during the first week of the first class I had from him at the University of Chicago called simply “Hellenistic Religion.” It remains the case that very few in my academic field…
The publication of this revised and expanded 4th edition of my book Restoring Abrahamic Faith has been delayed over the past months due to pending research that I want to include. The official publication date is now October 3, 2024. The book will be published on Amazon in Kindle, Paper,…