James Tabor

North Carolina · connectedBorn 1946

biblical scholar

Worked at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Worked at University of North Carolina at Charlotte

historian, university teacher, writer, theologian

Quotations with a citation

Historians are bound by their discipline to work within the parameters of a scientific view of reality. Women do not get pregnant without a male—ever. So Jesus had a human father, whether we can identify him or not. Dead bodies don't rise—not if one is clinically dead—as Jesus surely was after Roman crucifixion and three days in a tomb. So if the tomb was empty the historical conclusion is simple—Jesus' body was moved by someone and likely reburied in another location.

There is no evidence that James worshipped his brother or considered him divine. His emphasis in his letter was not upon the person of Jesus but upon what Jesus taught.

Christianity, as we came to know it, is Paul and Paul is Christianity.

In the libraries

Open Library A noble death · 1991 View library record ↗ Open Library Jesus Dynasty · 2006 View library record ↗ Open Library The Jesus Dynasty · 2006 View library record ↗ Open Library The Jesus discovery · 2011 View library record ↗ Open Library Things unutterable · 1981 View library record ↗ Open Library Why Waco? · 1995 View library record ↗

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