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Below is a ChatGPT-generated summary of the transcript of Tabor’s Lecture 5 in his Christianity Before Paul course on MVP. The transcript is in a subdirectory of his directory in Dropbox: Dropbox\Christianity\Scholars\James Tabor\Christianity Before Paul\. Overview: James the Just and Early Jesus Leadership Dr. James Tabor argues that James the Just, identified as Jesus’ brother, […]
Continue ReadingExtracts from the “Did Jesus see himself as the Messiah?” roundtable post by Michael Waddell at BSA. From a post here containing ChatGPT’s summary of the transcript of Paula Fredriksen’s Lecture: “Turning the Tables on the ‘Purification’ of the Temple” in NINT 2025. Jesus did not heal the man with a “skin disease” NRSVue [“leper” […]
Continue ReadingThis post contains the positions of Witherington, Tabor, Charlesworth, and Ehrman. Summary of the info below this table: Scholar Choice Various “For” Arguments Various “Against” Arguments Tabor James James is head of Movement and as his family stays in Jerusalem he, as the oldest, would be caretaker of the family and the one given Jesus’ […]
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