Mary’s Video Lectures

Christian Origins
Crossan & Tabor: A New Quest for the Historical Mother Mary

The first 25 minutes is Tabor providing background to his book “The Lost Mary”. After that, Crossan tells how his growing up in Ireland in the violence of the 1940s-50s made him realize what Mary and Jesus faced with the memories of Herod and the current violence of the Romans.

Tabor shares his alternative view of when Jesus had a packed house, and his family arrived, could not get in, and Jesus is commonly viewed as rejecting them.

Mark 6.3 and Matthew 13.55 mention Jesus’s sisters. What do we know about them? Can we know their names?