Whether you have watched this one before or not, I think you will find it fairly unique and of value. I did! I just rewatched it in choosing what to post as Easter Sunday fades into our past this evening. I had forgotten just how thorough it was. The description…
As we move along into what Christians traditionally call “Holy Week”–with both Passover and Easter ahead, I wanted to share a blog post I did back in 2022– with links to just about every aspect of the main events from Palm Sunday through Easter–and thereafter. Here is the main link…
https://youtu.be/WDVPuljWbPc This is a more public version of a lecture I presented last month to those in my on-line course, “Christianity Before Paul.” The Ten recorded topics/lectures in the course are supplemented by monthly Zoom meetings in which we explore aspects of the Mary-John-Jesus-Mary Magdalene-James movement more in depth. In…
In this overview of a more extensive lecture on the topic of “The Making of a Messiah,” I discuss some of the methods scholars use to peer through our historical and material evidence to try to get at what we call the “historical figure of Jesus,” not so much what…
In this edited interview I did with Aaron Abke, host of the Youtube channel The Jesus Way podcast we delve deeply into all aspects of the quest for the historical Mary, mother of Jesus. Here is an easy link to my new book, The Lost Mary: Rediscovering the Historical Mother…
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 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 fascinating interview Dale Allison, one of the most highly regarded historians of Jesus and early Christianity , previews his upcoming lecture at the highly anticipated New Investigations of the New Testament Conference coming up Sept 26-28th. This wide-ranging informal discussions delves into lots of the basics–what do we…