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…
First, MVP, who administers my two on-line courses, and others they offer, has made a decision to offer $10.00 off on all their courses–mine included–for a Black Friday through Cyber Monday sale (11/24-11-27). If you want to take advantage of either. You just put in the Discount code: BLKFRIDAY2023 when…
I have seen a tremendous uptick on social media, web sites, and Youtube in particular of presentations and discussions about how the current War in Israel with Gaza and its Iranian proxies could well be the beginnings of what is often referred to as the “Battle of Armageddon.” Later this…
By the “Jesus Apocalypse” I mean the core text of Mark 13 in which Jesus is said to have laid out a scenario for his final generation. In this video I compare two rewritten accounts, found in Matthew 24 and Luke 21–both very different and going in opposite ways. The…
I have been fascinated with the “Year of the Four Emperors” for since graduate school days. I got convinced years ago, reading S. F. F. Brandon’s classic work, The Fall of Jerusalem and the Christian Church: A Study of the Effects of the Jewish Overthrow of 70 AD on Christianity,…