James D. Tabor's Blog

In this segment of an extended interviews I did with Aaron Abke, host of the Youtube channel The Jesus Way  @AaronAbke  we delve deeply into all aspects of the quest for the historical Mary, mother of Jesus. You can watch the entire epos here at Aaron’s channel: https://youtu.be/yJRYynSBSxU?si=ciErU... Here is an easy link to my [...]

This is a segment of my recent conversation with Megan Lewis, a woman, mother, and scholar–the first so far in my interviews about my new book, The Lost Mary. To hear the entire program go to this link: https://youtu.be/IaESGg8uTow?si=a_k9r.... And be sure and subscribe to Megan’s channel. You might know her as host of Bart [...]

Many of you know Megan Lewis, who is host for Bart Erhman’s show “Misquoting Jesus,” who also did a superb job in the same role at  the New Investigations of the New Testament conference last September. She is really a superb interviewer. What you might not know is that it is Megan Lewis is an [...]

Last week I was in the Atlanta area at a book event at Triith, the film production community and studios south of the city. I had never heard of it–check out the link–but we had a fabulous evening centered on my new book, The Lost Mary, I want to thank the main sponsors, the Peachtree [...]

I thank Derek Lambert, host of the Youtube channel  @MythVisionPodcast, for moderating this discussion between the illustrious Dr. John Dominick Crossan, perhaps the best known “historical Jesus” scholar in the world, and me, focusing on my latest book, The Lost Mary: Rediscovering the Mother of Jesus. It was such a pleasure to spend this time [...]

Have you ever noticed that the language Jesus uses of finding “rest for your souls” is based on Jeremiah 6:16, check it out. Seems like Jesus had his nose in Jeremiah 6-8 in a focused and central way, especially in his final confrontation with his enemies. Notice the phrase in Jeremiah is plural–“ancient paths.” In [...]

In this second segment of a more extended interview I did recently with Jacob Berman, host of the History-Valley channel on Youtube, we discuss some of the sources, which like missing puzzle pieces, can be put together for a better understanding of the historical Mary, mother of Jesus. The results are presented in my new [...]

In this segment of a more extended interview I did recently with Jacob Berman, host of  @History-Valley  on Youtube, we discuss a number of key issues related to my new book, The Lost Mary: Rediscovering the Mother of Jesus. You can find the complete interview at this link on Jacob’s channel here:

I have known for several weeks that the National Catholic Reporter would be reviewing my book. I never got a call from the reporter, which made me worry even more. I just assumed, given the Catholic establishment, plus my book, The Jesus Dynasty being denounced from the pulpit of St. Paul’s in NY by the [...]

In this first major interview on my new book, The Lost Mary, I speak with Dr. Robert L. Kuhn, host of the international program “Closer to Truth,” available on PBS TV, Youtube, all major podcast outlets, and the amazing web site: Closertotruth.com. A quick overview of what the book is all about. This is the [...]