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This post contains extracts from The Geochemistry of Intrusive Sediment Sampled from the 1st Century CE Inscribed Ossuaries of James and the Talpiot Tomb, Jerusalem by Aryeh E. Shimron, Moshe Shirav, Kevin T. Kilty, Ludwik Halicz1, Rolf B. Pedersen, Harald Furnes. A PDF copy of the report is in the James Tabor/James Ossuary directory. The […]
Continue ReadingExtracts from James or Jacob in the Bible? Giving Jacob his due by Mark Wilson, published in BAS on January 29, 2026 So how did the Jewish name Ya’akov become so Gentilized as James? Since the 13th century, the form of the Latin name Iacomus began its use in English. In the 14th century, John Wycliffe made the […]
Continue ReadingBelow 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 ReadingFrom ChatGPT on 12/13/2025. Below is a James vs. Paul timeline with a third column for Peter as a mediating figure, extracted from the historical framework and chronology used by Dr. James Tabor in “The Jewish World of John, Jesus, and James the Just” . The focus is where James and Paul overlap in time […]
Continue ReadingFrom ChatGPT based on Tabor’s paper he shared in Dec. 2025 that is in Dropbox…\James Tabor\Courses\Christianity Before Paul\Introduction – The Jewish World of John, Jesus, and James.pdf” Below is a side-by-side chronological timeline that places John the Baptist, Jesus of Nazareth, and James the Just within the historical events framework used by Dr. James Tabor. […]
Continue ReadingFrom ChatGPT on 12/9/2025 Below are the main arguments critical biblical scholars give for why the “Beloved Disciple” in John 19:26–27 (NRSV) is not the apostle John, and therefore why the scene is not understood as Jesus literally transferring Mary to the historical John’s care. 1. The “Beloved Disciple” is anonymous and never called John […]
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 ReadingFrom ChatGPT on 7/1/2025. The debate among critical Bible scholars over whether James and Joses (also spelled “Jose”) were biological sons of Mary (Jesus’ mother) or children of Joseph by a prior wife stems from differing interpretations of New Testament texts, early Christian traditions, and theological developments in later centuries. Here’s a summary of the […]
Continue ReadingFrom ChatGPT 12/13/2024 Below is the expanded James vs. Paul timeline with a third column for Peter as a mediating figure, kept within the same historical framework and chronology used by Dr. James Tabor.All New Testament citations are NRSV; Hebrew Bible quotations/allusions are ASV. Historical framing reflects Tabor’s analysis of Second Temple Judaism . James […]
Continue ReadingSee James Tabor’s site for many posts. Links to related info is below. For Tabor’s lenghty presentation of the evidence he finds to be important see the PDF file of his paper The Talpiot “Jesus” Tomb: A Historical Analysis, James D. Tabor, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte. That file is in the TRC […]
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