This report from Israel introduces viewers to the basics on what we know and hope to soon learn about the skeletal remains of those Jewish men, women, and children who died at Masada under the Roman 10th Legion siege around Passover 73 CE. For the blog post I feature see:…
This is Part 2 of my lecture on the DIDACHE that I recently prepared for my “Tabor Research Community for our upcoming monthly Zoom meeting. This ancient manuscript, lost in ancient times and re-discovered in 1873, dates as early as 100 AD. It contains the earliest record of the “Teachings”…
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…
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…
This video is Part I of the COUNTDOWN of the Top Ten Texts of the Bible that differ in the Dead Sea Scrolls and our traditional Old Testament. For an introduction see the previous video: https://youtu.be/u5xZ_odxX5w And be sure you get your copy of the Dead Sea Scrolls Bible for…
Get ready for the countdown: Ten Major Variants between the Dead Sea Scroll texts of the Hebrew Bible and that of our traditional Masoretic text–upon which our major English Bibles are based. A very few of these variants are slowly making it into the English texts, but by far the…
I wanted to let all my blog readers know that you can get my new course “Quest for the Historical Paul” for $10.00 off during the MVP Courses “Black Friday” sale. Take a look at the overview of the course here at this link–with no obligation with to buy. But…
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,”…