Christianity Before Paul

Subpages to this page are summaries and extracts from Dr. James Tabor’s 16 lectures from his “Christianity Before Paul” series during the winter/spring of 2025. Also, see the page on this site titled Jesus Before Paul and Robyn Faith Walsh’s paper, “A Jesus Before Paul?” All text below is by Dr. James D. Tabor from here. […]

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Jesus Before Paul

In Lesson 4 of Bart Ehrman’s course The Genius of Acts of the Apostles, he says: Historically, it is absolutely the case that the Christian movement began as a kind of Judaism. Jesus himself was Jewish. His followers were Jewish. They kept the Jewish law. They adhered to Jewish customs. Nobody said anything about not […]

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Archeology Misc

Archaeological Proof for Hilkiah the High Priest – A handful of ancient Hebrew inscriptions verify the existence of a biblical high priest. By Eleanor Clarke • July 9, 2019 It’s a Natural: Masada Ramp Was Not a Roman Engineering Miracle at BAS Library. “Another aspect of the Masada story that has to be carefully reexamined is the […]

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Jesus, John the Baptizer, & the DSS Parallels

Strike the shepherd and the sheep will be scattered – Mark reports Jesus said that and it is in the DSS. Jesus, Paul, and the author of John spoke of Sons of Light and Sons of Darkness and that you all are sons of light. That is also cited in the DSS. I am the […]

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