I was pleased to “pinch hit” for Bart Ehrman today on his popular Youtube podcast, “Misquoting Jesus,” just in time for the big holiday this week. I know I am mostly preaching to the “Choir” here for my regular blog readers, since many of you have either read my book,…
In this edited radio interview, to which I have added video and images, John Batchelor, legendary host of CBS “Eye on the World,” takes me though my new book, The Lost Mary, which he had so thoroughly read and absorbed. It was a delight to speak with him. Enjoy! And…
Don’t miss this one. Come Time Travel with me. I wanted to share this podcast interview I did recently with Professors Helen Bond and Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones on their amazing show “Biblical Time Machine.” They asked me to take them back to the first century CE, the time of Jesus, and…
I thank Derek Lambert, host of the Youtube channel @MythVisionPodcast, for moderating this discussion between the illustrious Dr. John Dominick Crossan, perhaps the best known “historical Jesus” scholar in the world, and me, focusing on my latest book, The Lost Mary: Rediscovering the Mother of Jesus. It was such a…
In this second segment of a more extended interview I did recently with Jacob Berman, host of the History-Valley channel on Youtube, we discuss some of the sources, which like missing puzzle pieces, can be put together for a better understanding of the historical Mary, mother of Jesus. The results…
In this segment of a more extended interview I did recently with Jacob Berman, host of the Youtube channel, History Valley, we discuss a number of key issues related to how, when, and why Jesus’ mother Mary, the “best known, least known” woman in history. has been essentially “lost” as…
In this first major interview on my new book, The Lost Mary, I speak with Dr. Robert L. Kuhn, host of the international program “Closer to Truth,” available on PBS TV, Youtube, all major podcast outlets, and the amazing web site: Closertotruth.com. A quick overview of what the book is…
“The Lost Mary unfolds in five radical claims. . . . Together these arguments are Tabor’s attempt to rescue Mary from pious abstraction and revolutionize our picture of her as one of the most consequential women in history. . . . In recovering her story, we discover not only the…
In this third in my mini-series the Fading of the Jesus Family on Youtube, I examine the idea that Mary had neither sex nor children other than Jesus. Is this found anywhere in our historical sources? When, where, and how did the notion of the “Ever-Virgin” develop as a core…
In this beginning video of a new mini-series “The Fading of the Jesus Family,” I begin with one of the earliest stages of writing James and the brothers of Jesus out of the story, as well as Mary Magdalene! It is quite striking–in the New Testament texts we call Luke-Acts.…