Welcome to my YouTube Channel

I invite you to visit my Youtube Channel (https://youtube.com/jamestaborvideos) which now has over 400 videos, and dozens of Playlists organized broadly under topics and categories. Please “Like” and “Subscribe” if you like what you see. You can also choose notifications–the little bell–if you want to be notified of new videos posted.nThe Channel has over 75,000 subscribers and 10M views.

The Channel contains a growing archive of interviews, lectures, and related videos from my forty years exploring the academic study of the origins of Christianity and ancient Judaism. Some of the videos are older than others and the emphasis is on CONTENT not slick video quality–although I will be posting newer HD productions as well. This material is based upon our surviving historical sources, particularly ancient texts and the material evidence of archaeology. Major topics of my own focus have been the historical Jesus, John the Baptizer, James the brother of Jesus, the apostle Paul, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of Jesus. Questions of focus are: Can the original message of Jesus be recovered? How did Paul differ in his gospel message from that of Jesus? How did a new religion known as “Christianity” emerge from its late 2nd Temple Jewish origins. What have we learned from the Dead Sea Scrolls, marginalized texts that survive from the kind of “Jewish Christianity” that predates Paul, and even embedded sources in our New Testament writings that nonetheless survive the theological overlay of later editors.