When I began this blog in 2005 it was called The Jesus Dynasty. Over the years it grew and expanded, to cover much more than the historical Jesus–the the drop down menu “Categories.” The traffic has increased over the years at least 10-fold, with several millions of page views and visits.…
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…
I wanted to welcome several hundred new subscribers to my Blog that have come our way via my growing Youtube Channel. I have plans to more and more integrate this blog with Youtube videos–lectures, interviews with various scholars, and the latest treatments of a long list of topics I have…
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 took a bit of a hiatus during the first half of February on the blog. I had been posting a lot in January and I wanted to give folks a chance to catch up, but my main reason was I have been putting in all of my free time…