Here is some original archive footage, unedited, made by my team who visited there on September 15, 1996. The quality is not the best, having been filmed nearly 30 years ago with a video camera. Is this a forgery or might it go back to ancient times? There is a…
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…
The entire tale in the book of Genesis of Adam and Eve eating the forbidden fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil has been portrayed as the FALL OF Humanity from God’s Grace and Favor. It is quite the opposite. In this video I examine the…
The publication of this revised and expanded 4th edition of my book Restoring Abrahamic Faith has been delayed over the past months due to pending research that I want to include. The official publication date is now October 3, 2024. The book will be published on Amazon in Kindle, Paper,…
Millions of Christians for nearly 2000 years have assumed, based on faulty translations–and frankly, Handel’s Messiah–that Jesus is referred to as the Mighty God and Everlasting Father by the Prophet Isaiah…Here is the back story.f You can download a free PDF of the notes here: https://jamestabor.com/JesusGod https://youtu.be/DXyd2XZAeYc Iinvite you to…
A plain historical reading of Isaiah 7 and 8 in context reveal that Immanuel is NOT Jesus or any Messiah–it is Isaiah’s Son! I invite you to join my Tabor Research Community for lots more, discussions, my responses to messages, a monthly Zoom meetings, and a fantastic and diverse group…
The King James Versions of Isaiah 7:14 has been read for centuries by Christians as predicting the Virgin Birth–which then is understood to be Jesus? But does this hold up to academic, scientific, and linguistic scrutiny? This is truly “old hat” to 99.9% of you enlightened Tabor Blog readers (please…
In this new series on my Youtube channel, to run concurrently with the present series, “Lost in Translation,” we work on learning how to spot and identify texts of the Bible, whether Hebrew Bible/O.T. or New Testament, that have been overlaid with what appear to be disjunctive interpolations inserted for…
Millions sing the old evangelical Christian hymn “I Know that My Redeemer Lives,” referring to Jesus. However, the idea comes from Job 19 and it turns out it has been seriously mistranslated in Christian versions of the Bible and the actual meaning is something totally different–but equally amazing! For a…