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Archaeology May 13, 2023

Is Masada Myth or History–What Happened to the Skeletons?

In this wide-ranging interview with Neal Sendlack host of YouTube channel @GnosticInformant, we delve into all sorts of questions regarding the the history and mythology of Masada–the last stand of Jewish patriots against the Romans during the first revolt (73 CE). One of the core mysteries of the entire story…

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2nd Temple Judaism May 11, 2023

Popular Archaeology: Top Ten Stories of the Decade–The Quest for the Historical Jesus

The on-line magazine, Popular Archaeology, which I highly recommend, recently circulated its “Top Ten” feature stories of the past decade. I was honored and pleased that one of the ten stories that my research on the historical Jesus, as related to material and textual evidence, was chosen as one of…

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2nd Temple Judaism January 20, 2023

New Blog Feature: Primary Sources from my Four Decades of Teaching & Research

If you check the dropdown menu at the top of any page on my TaborBlog you will see an emerging new feature titled “The Jewish-Roman World of Jesus.” During my years at UNC Charlotte these materials were on a university web site used by my students in my courses–but since…

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Archaeology November 26, 2022

Dr. Tabor in Cartoon Form!

For a bit of a change of pace, checkout this cartoon video a friend created. I only recognize myself in my dreams, but I really did rappel down Masada to get into the southern caves! See my post on the Masada Bones of Cave 2001 to find out what I…

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Archaeology September 1, 2022

Time Travel: Why We Humans Are So Fascinated by the Ancient Past

In this informal presentation I relate our very human attachment to “old things,” to which we attach emotion and meaning–including some of my own personal experiences–and how that is connected broadly to “archaeology”–that is, the scientific exploration of the human material past. Our imagination connects us to the past–places, artifacts,…

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Archaeology August 9, 2022

Church of the Apostles Found on Mt Zion!

This groundbreaking article by the late Bargil Pixner, a Benedictine priest and my dear friend, mentor, and colleague, was published in Biblical Archaeology Review in May/June, 1990. For me it was a most important article–groundbreaking! Other than Jim Strange and Shimon Gibson, there is no one from whom I have learned…

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2nd Temple Judaism August 4, 2022

Essays: Overview of the Dead Sea Scrolls

The following four essays were in response to a comprehensive essay exam I gave in my Dead Sea Scrolls course. They were written by my student Jeffrey Poplin and used with his permission. I thank Jeffrey for his superb work and happily pass these along to my blog readers: Essay One: Offer…

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Ancient Inscriptions July 11, 2022

The Most Reasonable Contribution to the “Jerusalem Stone” Inscription Controversy I Have Seen

Ross Nichols has just uploaded on a very balanced and reasonable set of reflections on the “Jerusalem stone” inscription and the resulting controversies that broke over the weekend–see my “Breaking News and Updates” posted here on my blog this morning–with quite a few links that fill in the backstory on…

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Archaeology May 21, 2022

Digging in the Holy Land–How Texts, Archaeology, and Science Meet

I thought some of you might enjoy this lecture I did in 2019 at the Georgia Southern University College of Science and Mathematics to a diverse group of scientists interested in the technical and scientific aspects of some of the archaeological discoveries in which I have been involved. This was…

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Archaeology May 21, 2022

Tracking John the Baptizer and His Followers–Including Jesus!

This video lecture from 2006 covers new textual and archaeological evidence on “Yochanan HaMatvil,” or “John the Dipper,” including the Suba cave west of Jerusalem of which I have written much over the years–in both my books (especially The Jesus Dynasty –which is on sale right now in paperback for $14. If…

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