One of my New Year’s resolutions is to resume regular monthly posting as a blogger for the Times of Israel, which has become for me the “paper of record” in the Middle East. I have read both the Jerusalem Post and HaAretz for the past forty years, but lately I…
I know some of you–perhaps many of you–have followed the work of Dr. Robert L. Kuhn on his TV and now Youtube programs “Closer to Truth.” If you have not visited the web site lately, it has been marvelously redesigned and Robert is ever at work with new horizons…see closertotruth.com. The…
Yesterday, based on the previous blog post, I recorded this video. The TITLE is too long–No One Will Choose this Video…or maybe not…let’s see…And note my interesting P.S. at the end: https://youtu.be/VcYUhI765H0 I want to also note that I am very familiar with theories of Hitler fleeing Germany to…
https://jamestabor.com/remembering-olof-james-ribb-1946-2006/ This week (January 16th) marked the death of my dearest friend Olof James Ribb eighteen years ago at age 59. I invite you all, my friends, to read about this remarkable soul who was with us all too short a time at the link above. Over the three decades…
Sometimes I look and Someone’s there; sometimes it’s only me…This haunting rendition of “Every Grain of Sand” at Dylan’s last performance of 2023, last song, is so incredible. Look up the lyrics if you don’t know it. I thank God for the cosmic soul that comes through this man, as…
Paul Tillich once said, I don’t pray, I meditate. I would head in that direction, but with this change: I neither pray, nor meditate, but I try to “atune,” through most of my waking moments, to the greater ordered PROCESS that has given rise to my very being. I am…
A short note to readers: The month of October I took a break from posting on the blog due to personal family reasons–we have had two deaths in the family in recent months, as well as being out of the country the last of the month. I just returned from…
Dr. James Tabor retired (2022) as a full-Professor from the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he taught Christian origins and ancient Judaism, for 33 years, serving as Chair for a decade. His MA/Ph.D. is from the University of Chicago (1981). He previously…
As many of you know I officially retired yesterday, June 30th, from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte after thirty-three yeas of teaching, but forty-five total including my previous years at Notre Dame and the College of William and Mary. I might also mention that UNC Charlotte was founded in 1946–the year…
I usually don’t do personal reflections on this Blog–which is reserved for academic biblical/historical matters. However, it is called TABORBlog–so why not. On this day, June 2, 1952, marks the 70th Anniversary of Queen Elizabeth–the longest reigning monarch in English history. My two sister and I were there in London…