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,…
This is a video recording of a LIVE video lecture on Zoom I did with my students today in my “Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls” class. This is deep and complex stuff, but utterly fascinating as you get into it. I Many of you are in the course, but…
A plain historical reading of Isaiah 7 and 8 in context reveal that Immanuel is NOT Jesus or any Messiah–it is Isaiah’s Son! I invite you to join my Tabor Research Community for lots more, discussions, my responses to messages, a monthly Zoom meetings, and a fantastic and diverse group…
The King James Versions of Isaiah 7:14 has been read for centuries by Christians as predicting the Virgin Birth–which then is understood to be Jesus? But does this hold up to academic, scientific, and linguistic scrutiny? This is truly “old hat” to 99.9% of you enlightened Tabor Blog readers (please…
In this new series on my Youtube channel, to run concurrently with the present series, “Lost in Translation,” we work on learning how to spot and identify texts of the Bible, whether Hebrew Bible/O.T. or New Testament, that have been overlaid with what appear to be disjunctive interpolations inserted for…
Millions sing the old evangelical Christian hymn “I Know that My Redeemer Lives,” referring to Jesus. However, the idea comes from Job 19 and it turns out it has been seriously mistranslated in Christian versions of the Bible and the actual meaning is something totally different–but equally amazing! For a…
Today is the biblical Shavuot as observed in late 2nd Temple times–not on a date of the Jewish month (Sivan 5th), which never changes, but a literal counting of days from the Sunday (“morrow after the Sabbath”), seven Sabbath will be complete untiil the “morrow” (Sunday) after the 7th Sabbath.…
Millions for centuries–and into our own time, read Genesis 2 and the creation of Adam from the dust as referring only to his body–but then he receives the “breath of life” from God and becomes a living soul–special and above the animals, who are only beasts who perish. Here is…
The traditional translation of “Den of Thieves” is misleading both in the mouth of Jesus in the Jerusalem Temple–but more significant,–in the mouth of the Prophet Jeremiah whom Jesus quotes. Here is the back-story on what was really going on, both in the time of Jeremiah and of Jesus. Here…
I don’t know how many of you have heard this verse quoted over the years growing up but the ideas behind it, spread to the world by the apostle Paul–have done untold harm, and led to the anguish and suffering of so many millions. A Single verse of the Bible–Jeremiah…
