See the post Restoring Abrahamic Faith Again on this site with a summary of a Tabor talk.
- Tabor contends that historic Christianity, Talmudic Judaism, and fundamentalist Islam have all made a fundamental “wrong turn” by teaching that the physical world is not our home, that humans possess immortal souls destined for heaven, and that we need a redeemer to rescue us from this fallen world.
Ross Nichols
Lecture Series on Restoring Abrahamic Faith – Ross Nichols, teacher for the United Israel World Union, presented a four-part lecture series based on Dr. Tabor’s book Restoring Abrahamic Faith.
Dr. James D. Tabor
- Sixty Years on the Road to Horeb, August 19, 2025
- I have been thinking lately about the essential differences between Judaism and Christianity, or more properly, the kind of religion reflected in the Hebrew Bible and that of the Greek New Testament. I have long ago given up the idea of any formal affiliations with the major contemporary manifestations of Judaism and Christianity …
- His publication of the above in the Summer 1990 — Personal Reflections on the Hebrew Bible and the Greek New Testament,
- Publication Date of “Restoring Abrahamic Faith” 4th Edition Scheduled – The page includes his statement of faith in Abrahamic Faith from the Preface as well as the Endorsements.
- This book, Restoring Abrahamic Faith, moves out of those academic parameters and is much more of a personal “non-specialist” exposition of what I call Hebraic faith. I am enamored with the Hebrew Bible—Torah, Prophets, and Writings—those texts generally considered as sacred Scripture in the period we refer to as late Second Temple Judaism. To put it in Christian terms, my focus is on the “Bible of Jesus” and that of his earliest followers. The Hebrew Bible is a vast collection of texts, spanning centuries, and composed by dozens of writers and editors, but it nonetheless reflects at its core, an emerging vision of the Creator God (i.e. the “Force of all Forces”), of human potential and purpose, and the unrealized hope of the Creator’s will “done on earth as in heaven.” That vision is one that beckons us across the ages and seems increasingly relevant in our troubled new millennium.
- A favorite interview of Tabor’s is Frank Moore Cross on the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament.
- Cross: I find myself a little uncomfortable in the New Testament environment. And this is also true of what I would call late Judaism, the Judaism of the Second Temple and later. With the Hebrew Bible, you’re living in an austere world. When you come to the New Testament you can’t even swing a cat without hitting three demons and two spirits. And magic becomes something that is everywhere. In the Hebrew Bible this sort of thing doesn’t go on.
