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,”…
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…