I posted this some months ago but we have many new people joining this Blog Community, and for those who remember it I wanted to call you attention to it again. This is a long, very informal study of what traditions we can trace in the Torah about the “Box,”…
As some of you know, even though my academic field is ancient Mediterranean religions, including Christian Origins and late 2nd Temple Judaism, I have ended up wearing a few extra “Hats” so to speak. I would include here the archaeological side of my research along with the textual studies typical…
This footage of me and my students at Qumran, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found. Here we go to CAVE 3–that had the famous Copper Scroll and share stories with anthropologist Joe Zias. I will be presenting videos on this mysterious scroll that lists hidden sacred objects, as well…
This is a video recording of a LIVE video lecture on Zoom I did with my students today in my “Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls” class. This is deep and complex stuff, but utterly fascinating as you get into it. I Many of you are in the course, but…
Yesterday I began a Podcast that will be complimentary to, but different from, my Youtube channel, videos, which many of you follow or subscribe to: see JamesTaborVideos. I am using both Spotify and Apple Podcasts at this point. I invite you to give it a try, whichever service you prefer.…
Reduced Price until Sunday Midnight February 25th Some of you might have seen that Bart Ehrman is promoting a new course with archaeologist Jodi Magness. The two of them are faculty together at UNC Chapel Hill. I have never enrolled in one of Bart’s courses before, though I have often…
Don’t miss this one…yes, that is really ME… In December 1991 through January 1992 I participated in the very first extensive archaeological survey of caves at the Dead Sea–from Qumran, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found, all the way to En Gedi. In this rare archive footage you see…
This wonderful interview with Robert Eisenman, famous Dead Sea Scrolls scholar whose views are out of the mainstream, captures the man, his life, and his ideas. He is relaxed, reminisces, and lays out his basic theory about Christian Origins, Paul, James, and Jesus. Don’t miss this one! Check out his…
We are living in the last days, on this LAST GREAT day of Gregorian Year 2023! We had a really wonderful ZOOM meeting yesterday with a mixture of students from both my on-line courses–Mark as well “Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls.” The meeting was recorded and will become part…
Anyone up for a fairly in-depth hour and a half discussion of the John the Baptizer/Jesus/James movement and it possible relationship to the group that the historical Josephus, and other classical writers such as Pliny and Strabo, called the “Essenes”? We are not sure of the origins of this Greek…