The ancient group of Jesus followers referred to as the “Ebionites” or “Nazarenes” were slandered, damned, and declared heretics by the mainstream Christian Orthodox Church Fathers. In this dialogue with filmmaker Kameron Waters, I argue that they may well be one of our best clues to recovering what the original…
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…
Hey everyone, here is the fourth of six interviews I have done the past few days with speakers at the upcoming “New Investigations of the New Testament” virtual conference with the theme of the “Historical Jesus.” In this fascinating interview with one of my favorite scholars, Dr. Joel Marcus, of…
In this 1.45 hour video Dr. Justins Sledge, who runs the Youtube channel Esoterica, interviews me on the topic of “Who Was the historical Jesus” based on the recent presentation Justin made on his channel with his own views of the topic. This is Part I, covering the basics on…
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…
As many of you know I formed a “Tabor Research Community” in 2023 using Patreon…but my approach is different from most. Everyone who joins, at any level, gets the same materials–as I realize people have widely differing financial means, and I am not interested in “selling” my work to those…
In this video I relate the remarkable discovery in 2000 of a Cave west of Jerusalem, at Suba, that has what might be the earliest art work related to the John the Baptist-Jesus movement–right outside John’s village of Ein Kerem. What we found in our excavations (2000-2006) shed some remarkable…
The Mandeans trace themselves back to the original followers of John the Baptist, who, according to tradition, fled the land Holy Land in the first century, preserving traditions independent of the emerging Christian Church in the subsequent centuries. In June 1999, I was privileged to be a part of a…