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2nd Temple Judaism May 28, 2025

A Young Christian Believer Asks Me Four Questions on Paul

I recently did an interview with Jacob Giron, a young open minded Christian believer who regularly explores  “out of the box,” issues on his Youtube Channel (@LeadersTalkPodcast), including reading my books: Paul and Jesus, and Restoring Abrahamic Faith: https://youtu.be/BEHIsCRBE_M

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2nd Temple Judaism March 10, 2025

Here is Part 2 of My Presentation on the Didache!

This is Part 2 of my lecture on the DIDACHE that I recently prepared for my “Tabor Research Community for our upcoming monthly Zoom meeting. This ancient manuscript, lost in ancient times and re-discovered in 1873, dates as early as 100 AD. It contains the earliest record of the “Teachings”…

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2nd Temple Judaism February 28, 2025

It is Beginning to Get Real!

Just printed it out. Final manuscript type set and formatted–just as the book will look. Goes now to page proofs. For the next three days I am going to read it aloud…every word–as a FINAL ultimate check. Just to see what might have been missed by two professional copyeditors who went…

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Christian Origins October 28, 2024

Did Paul Get His Gospel from James and the Apostles Who Knew Jesus?

This is a continuation of the topic I explored in the previous post. The assumption of many scholars is that Paul, even in his preaching of what he calls “his Gospel”  to the Gentiles, was just reflecting a more open version of the core message of Jesus, the Twelve, and…

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2nd Temple Judaism October 27, 2024

Is This Our Earliest Surviving Christian Text Opposing Paul’s Claims to be an Apostle?

I gave this short overview lecture recently to a group of my students and patrons members and wanted to share it with all of you. It explores the possible break between Paul and his “Gospel” and that of the Jerusalem followers of Jesus led by James the Just. You may…

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2nd Temple Judaism June 30, 2024

How James [Yaaqov], Beloved Brother of Jesus, Was Written out of Early Christianity

A detailed survey of our earliest sources on James–whose proper name was Jacob of Yaaqov–the brother of Jesus, was written out of the standard master narrative of Christian history. What can we know about James, by trying to reassemble all the disparate strands of evidence, from the Gospels, Acts, Paul,…

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Christian Origins March 9, 2024

How Paul Created “His Gospel”

In this video I reverse the normal argument that Paul inherited the fundamentals of his “Christ Message,” from the Jerusalem Church, and then adapted and refined it for his mostly Gentile followers. https://youtu.be/7kzPsV1TN04

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2nd Temple Judaism March 7, 2024

Getting Up to Speed on Talpiot Tombs Research

In the aftermath of Jodi Magness’s recent lecture on the “Burials of James, Jesus, and the Talpiot Tombs” in Bart Ehrman’s course “Archaeoolgy in the Time of Jesus” one thing was clear to me that I had not fully realized. Most treatments of the data on the Talpiot tomb research…

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2nd Temple Judaism February 22, 2024

Why I am Recommending Jodi’s Upcoming Archaeology Series

Reduced Price until Sunday Midnight February 25th Some of you might have seen that Bart Ehrman is promoting a new course with archaeologist Jodi Magness. The two of them are faculty together at UNC Chapel Hill. I have never enrolled in one of Bart’s courses before, though I have often…

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2nd Temple Judaism February 5, 2024

Best Interview: Robert Eisenman on His Career & Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls

This wonderful interview with Robert Eisenman, famous Dead Sea Scrolls scholar whose views are out of the mainstream, captures the man, his life, and his ideas. He is relaxed, reminisces, and lays out his basic theory about Christian Origins, Paul, James, and Jesus. Don’t miss this one! Check out his…

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