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Apocalypticism February 26, 2025

How Greek were Paul’s Core Ideas?

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…

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2nd Temple Judaism October 4, 2024

What Jonathan Z. Smith Taught Me that Changed My World Forever!

 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…

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Dead Sea Scrolls June 30, 2024

The Most Puzzling Dead Sea Scroll: Rebuilding the Jewish Temple in the Last Days!

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…

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2nd Temple Judaism May 21, 2024

The Fatal Flaw of Modern Apocalyptic Prophecy Interpretations

In this short video I try to put my finger on the single FATAL flaw underlying all modern interpretations of “Bible Prophecy” that plot a countdown of events leading up to the end of the World. The key is a historical reading and understanding of the texts in their original…

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2nd Temple Judaism May 21, 2024

How Popular Christian Prophecy Belief Was Made Fail-Safe!

For the past 100 years a new form of popular Christian Prophecy belief took over much of evangelical Christianity. This interpretation rendered all the predictions of apocalyptic signs leading up to the end of the world,  “Failure Proof” by a Double “Coming of Christ” idea. This essentially allows for perpetual…

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2nd Temple Judaism May 21, 2024

Most Bible Prophecy Is Not About an Apocalyptic End of the World

Many Bible readers assume that “Bible Prophecy” refers to the FUTURE–what is called “eschatology.” In fact, as the very makeup of the Hebrew Bible demonstrates, such is not the case. Even the book of Daniel, that many would consider quintessentially “prophetic,” is not included among the Biblical Prophets. Jesus, Paul,…

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2nd Temple Judaism May 6, 2024

Standing in the Shadow of Schweitzer–Was Jesus a Failed Apocalyptic Messiah?

Blast from the past…I gave this lecture in 2007 at an academic conference. Don’t miss the Q&A at the end. I refer to many major scholars along the way who were in the room. In these intervening years, although I have further developed these views, by and large I remain…

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Apocalypticism April 26, 2024

Two Flash Announcements–Tabor & Ehrman

April 26, 2024 FIRST: I want to strongly recommend the upcoming 8-lecture on-line course that Bart Ehrman is offering “The Bible and the Quran: Comparing Their Historical Problems,” which you can watch live Sat & Sun May 4th and 5th. See link below for full details and how to sign…

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Apocalypticism April 25, 2024

Rare Archive Footage Never Before Seen: Remembering the Waco Fire One Year After

The first Waco memorial was held on April 19, 1994–precisely one year after the Tragic Fire in which 74 men, women, and children burned to death. Although memorials have been held each year–including this year of 2024–there will never be another like this one. The surviving Branch Davidians who were…

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Academic Study of Religions April 19, 2024

Thirty-One Years Ago Today–Outside Waco, Texas

I am at the ATL airport, for a flight connection, with one thing on my mind. April 19th, 1993. I am tuned in now to the Memorial Service via Zoom, which I can’t attend this year due to an out of town conference. Some of you will perhaps remember that…

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