There is good solid historical evidence that Jesus died on a Thursday not a Friday, despite centuries of tradition. I offer an overview and also address why it matters. https://youtu.be/Y3dSYNyTlFM
Here is a link to my Contributor page on Dr. Robert L. Kuhn’s amazing program, “Closer to Truth,” that has videos of all my interviews, as well as other information. I have known Robert for 56 years–his Ph.D. is in Brain science; mine in ancient Mediterranean history and religion. In…
In the Hebrew Bible there are TWO traditions about the so-called “Ark of the Covenant”– one made famous in our time by books, movies, and Ark Hunters–that golden chest with the cherubim. The other a simple wooden box that Moses made–overlooked and unknown. The latter is the one that held…
Don’t miss this one…Jesus in the Jerusalem Temple–A Virtual Tour! Please like and share as you wish. Easy link: jamestabor.com/jesustempletour https://youtu.be/5PTZD4eztZs
Tuesday morning, November 14th, I left the house at 2:30am–yes, you read that right, to rendezvous with the various buses here in Charlotte associated with the Jewish Community as we headed up to the March for Israel rally in Washington, D.C. I arrived back home at 2:30am Wednesday morning, 24…
I only published this very informal lecture from last year three days ago but it quickly rose to the #1 spot of recent videos and already has nearly 7K views. I thought I would pass along the link to the video and also upload the notes, which you can access…
If you check the dropdown menu at the top of any page on my TaborBlog you will see an emerging new feature titled “The Jewish-Roman World of Jesus.” During my years at UNC Charlotte these materials were on a university web site used by my students in my courses–but since…
The ancient group of Jesus followers referred to as the “Ebionites” were slandered, damned, and declared heretics by the mainstream Christian Orthodox Church Fathers. In this interview with Derek Lambert, Youtube host of MythvisionPodcast, I argue that they might well be one of our main clues to recovering what the…
I wish all of you a Happy Yom Teru’ah, the Hebrew term for what is commonly called Rosh Hashanah–(lit. “head of the year”)–or the “Jewish New Year.” In fact, according to some Jewish traditions it is not so much the Jewish New Year, as the remembrance of the “birth…
Once again “Holy Week” has arrived. Today is Palm Sunday, with Easter one week away. So one might say this week is “doubly holy,” in that it binds together what Jesus as a Jew would have been intimately familiar with his entire life–Passover and the Days of Unleavened Bread–and the…