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.…
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…
I recently did an interview with Jacob Giron, a young open minded Christian believer who regularly explores “out of the box,” issues on his Youtube Channel (@LeadersTalkPodcast), including reading my books: Paul and Jesus, and Restoring Abrahamic Faith: https://youtu.be/BEHIsCRBE_M
The new revised and expanded 4th edition of my little book Restoring Abrahamic Faith is available now on Amazon in paperback as of noon EDT today. Here is the link: https://amzn.to/3F90SA7 I will be adding Kindle, Hardcover, and Audio at a later date, as well as translations into several languages,…
Yes, I mean Drs. William Lane Craig, Gary Habermas, Jeremiah L. Johnson, Craig Evans, Scott Stripling–and all the rest, several of whom are my friends and colleagues I have worked with on academic projects. I will say no more, the presentation speaks for itself and is offered with respect and…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Here is an much expanded version of some of what I presented at the Ehrman NINT conference on Paul over the weekend. it is quite long and goes deeply into many important texts, tailor made for a group such as ours, made up of those who have searched the historical…