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2nd Temple Judaism February 28, 2025

It is Beginning to Get Real!

Just printed it out. Final manuscript type set and formatted–just as the book will look. Goes now to page proofs. For the next three days I am going to read it aloud…every word–as a FINAL ultimate check. Just to see what might have been missed by two professional copyeditors who went…

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Apocalypticism February 26, 2025

How Greek were Paul’s Core Ideas?

This is an informal lecture I gave in the monthly Zoom meeting I hold with students in my “Quest for the Historical Paul” course. The course is on-line, you work at your own pace, and as with all of my on-line courses, I meet with the students via Zoom to…

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Academic Study of Religions February 21, 2025

Introducing my “Tabor Research Community” Meeting Virtually this Saturday

 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…

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2nd Temple Judaism February 17, 2025

Recovering a Gospel written before our New Testament Gospels

In this edited segment of a private study I recently had with my “Tabor Research Group, via Patreon,  that offers a theory, still in development, of discovering embedded in our current Greek gospel called Luke, is a pro-Gospel, upon which Luke primarily relied, as he overwrote Mark and added his…

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2nd Temple Judaism February 5, 2025

Countdown: Top Ten Differences in Biblical Texts of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Hebrew Bible Pt 2

In this final video of the short series dealing with the TOP TEN differences between the texts of the Bible in the Dead Sea Scrolls and our traditional Old Testament or Hebrew Bibles I go through the final Five, ending with what I think might be the most significant textual…

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Christian Origins January 6, 2025

No-Jesus’ Father Was Not a Roman Soldier Who Raped Mary!

Given how often my position on Pantera is distorted into the three things I do not say—namely, that the biological father of Jesus was not Joseph, that Pantera was a Roman soldier who raped Mary, and that his tomb is in German. So, it kind of amazed me to get…

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2nd Temple Judaism January 6, 2025

Personal Reflections on the Hebrew Bible from a New Testament Historian

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…

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2nd Temple Judaism December 21, 2024

The Day I Entered a Sealed 1st Century Jerusalem Tomb–Virtually!

Dateline: Tuesday, June 29, 2010, Jerusalem Israel I flew to Israel the day before to be present for one of the most significant discoveries I have made in my entire forty year academic career! Enjoy the experience , and see the links at the end to learn much more! https://youtu.be/N1oKvLC8oN4…

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Christian Origins December 17, 2024

Was Jesus a Poor, Illiterate, Itinerate, Peasant?

One hears from most academics that the historical figure of Jesus was most likely an impoverished, illiterate, itinerate, peasant with no wider cultural or geopolitical perspective beyond the region of the lower Galilee. He grew up in a tiny hamlet of perhaps 100 people, and certainly had no acquaintance with…

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2nd Temple Judaism December 13, 2024

The Invention of Heaven and Hell–The Bible and the Afterlife

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…

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