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,…
Have you ever wondered what the Jesus movement was like before the apostle Paul emerged with what he himself calls “my gospel”? I am pleased to announce that my new online course, “Christianity Before Paul,” has now been released and is available. The course is entirely online, self-paced, and…
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…
Many of you know Megan Lewis, who is host for Bart Erhman’s show “Misquoting Jesus,” who also did a superb job in the same role at the New Investigations of the New Testament conference last September. She is really a superb interviewer, he is prepared, comes up with really good…
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…
In this segment of a longer lecture I gave recently I discuss whether it is historical probably that Jesus expected and predicted his sufferings and potential death. The vast majority of scholars would deny that such was the case, and see this as something added after the fact after the…
“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…