Tabor always manages to capture my respect and admiration. I usually consider that American good old boy approach as an immediate red flag when watching Biblical scholars, but Tabor seems to have an actual hungering for the truth of things which sets him apart!

Reading the comments from Christians about blood and being saved from eternal sin by the death of the son of god and why God had to kill his son is just so weird. Been reading the Bible for decades and marvel at what people believe....and condemn others for not believing.

Dear James. I just want want to say how your knowledge and passion has helped, u tube will reach millions. Your work will not be in vain. Thank you I can listen to you for hours.

Wow. A lot of apologists who have zero understanding of biblical scholarship commenting here. Why?

Thank you. As a jew, this adds so much context.

This was a fantastic lecture, and the information got more and more exciting as it went on. Thanks, Dr. Tabor!

Dr Tabor is always good.

Dr. Tabor was easily my favorite professor. This guy's knowledge is incredible.

Very good stuff, thank you very much,

I so enjoyed this, Dr Tabor. Thank you!

This was very, very good.

Your work is so important. Thank you 🙏🏼

Thank you so much.

Brilliant. You are my favorite NT scholar. Thanks for this Dr Tabor!

EXCELLENT!!! Thank you. 🔥🔥🔥

Thank you 👁️

Fascinating!

Excellent, I wondered how to pronounce it in today’s Torah Portion

This is fascinating. You have such an easy teaching style, your students should count themselves lucky...

Very interesting lecture. Recommended by Mythvision

Heard of this channel from MythVision

Heard some of his views I definitely agree on!

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Thank you for these amazing videos Dr Tabor. On the off chance that you read these comments, I hope you won't mind if I ask a question: The Habakkuk Pesher mentions someone called "Absalom". Josephus also uses that name when describing "Menachem The Essene". Are they the same person?

Might not "gathering" be referring to raising up an army? What is the Hebrew/Aramaic word being used? Strong's number would be very helpful. Thanks.

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Interesting timing in watching this. I bought olive oil soap this morning made in Palestine. I never made that connection with the woman's anointing of Yeshua.

Can one suggest challenging the translation of 'speedily' to mean instead 'lively/enthusiastically' , ie not running hurriedly, but steadfastly, in it's non-immobile rendering?

If your thoughts are sinful the same as actions.how can you stop the thought before it even comes? You can stop the thought once it starts but it's already to late.how do you be holy if you can't stop thought right away?

Does anyone know if the area around the caves has been surveyed with ground penetrating radar?

Thank you for this! That's a great price for digital access to the BAR.

Re: Habakkuk 2:4... The part about "If any man draw back..." only appears in one of the six versions extant in Greek. It is not part of the Hebrew, DSS or the majority of extant texts. Also, the LXX I have has, "the just shall live by MY faith"! Hab 2:4 is a faith-killing verse re: reliable transmission.

This artwork ischemic first I’ve seen that is likely accurate of the naked state of those being crucified.

What about 1 Thess? Paul says Jesus will return in a time of peace when no one is looking for him. And that was written long before 70 AD. I think all the violent prophecies are about the fall of Jerusalem. I think what you’re talking about is what the first believers *thought.* Not what Jesus actually said.

Neal brought me here. But Derek brought me to Neal 🤔

One of my favorite games, like waiting to spot Hitchcock in a film, is waiting for Dr. Tabor to mention that he's been to Israel recently...😅

What a heart rending scene it is.! A prophet of God is presented naked on cross. God cannot be so cruel to punish an innocent that too a messenger He sent to implement His commandments especially when he fulfilled His oder letter and spirit.

Dr Tabor, do you think that "Jesus" could have had a different name, or was Paul just making something up about being given the name above all names?

@9:00 I do believe they were also "partying it up ", as compared to those you speak of.

What is he trying to prove or disprove??

It’s worth pointing out that he points to the “timeline” of preceding historical documents to cast shade on the validity of Christianity, but fails to point out in his acceptance of Islam that it came about some 653 years after Christianity.

I’ve read the Babylonian Talmud’s account of Jesus bar Panthera. To the oddest part of it, it seemed to me, was that it placed Jesus a century too early. Has anyone investigated whether the writer of that story was confusing Jesus with the teacher of righteousness?

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Great video! Thanks for helping me in my deconstruction process

He may have?,I have seen much strange stuff that cannot be explained by logic or science.

Air as a source of life and existence (Anaximenes) was pretty close ...Maybe the omnipresence of magnetism which permeates the whole universe manifesting itself in different patterns of vibration (including light) is the source of everything...

LOVE

Dead messiahs who don't return -- you mean, like, all of them?

No where in Deuteronomy 22 is divorcing and remarrying permitted, even conditionally, but rather it focuses on marriage violations.

In the first centuries BC and AD, how many Jewish and Israelite groups believed that a messiah had died and would return?

Which ones have come back?

Thank you for mentioning the Branch Dravidian’s. I had imagined they would present a new martyrdom that has not, apparently, happened. “They didn’t have a Paul” explained it for me

I find your picture disrespectful of the crusfiction

Matthew 24:36 “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only. "

As a Catalan, I can see a parallel with our always waiting for liberation of our nation, generation after generation, the teacher being killed and so on. Maybe Judaism is more entrenched in our society and culture than we ourselves think. No signs either.

In my comment i intend to refute your statement about Mathew 24 concerning "this generation". But before I do, I would like to add your credentials and experience are both respectable and impressive. Thank you for this content. Now to the pressing matter; Your statement would be true about "This generation" (Genea:Gevec) if Jesus didn't allude to Jeremiah. We know that Jesus and the gospel writters often times alluded to the Neviim indirectly without the use of key phrases such as "In the scriptures". Once you find such indirect pharaphrased instances of the OT, then we can confidently stablish this was the common practice of the gospel authors. This generation refers to Israel as a whole, as a race, Genea in greek, as you already know, can mean group of people, social class, race. In its immidiate context translated to english the intent of genea is lost. By extension, Jesus essentially was echoing the promise made that israel would not dissapear or cease to be a race keeping in mind he mentioned death and destruction in the previous verses. I can give you many examples were idioms lose their original intent when traslated to another language. Example in spanish is this; El artista lanza su disco pronto. When translated in a literal fashion the word "Lanza" would literally be translated to english as spear. So its english redering would read like this. The artist spear his new album. Please note that words in the translation aren't present in its spanish original counterpart. Yet I had to add words to convey the same message with the exception of the word "lanza" which in its literal sense means spear, yet the message conveyed in spanish is "release". If we translate the word "release" back to spanish assuming we dont have the original in spanish it would not be translated back to "lanza" but probably to "suelta". In this brief example we can see some idioms or phrases cannot be translated literally from their original counterpart.Jesus uses keyphrases such as "seas roaring" Stars "falling to give light". Since the end will come when he shows up, the very heavens will be shaken, but in the meantime israel will not cease to exist only until the end when the heavens are shaken out of place. He echoes a promise made in Jeremiah 31 that israel will exist until the end of time, since he mentioned death and destruction he is assuring that thought these things will come upon the nation it will not disapear, cease exist. "My words will not pass away" is to reinforce the promise. "This is what the Lord says, he who appoints the sun to shine by day, who decrees the moon and stars to shine by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar- the Lord Almighty is his name: “Only if these decrees vanish from my sight,” declares the Lord, “will Israel ever cease being a nation before me.” This is what the Lord says: “Only if the heavens above can be measured and the foundations of the earth below be searched out will I reject all the descendants of Israel because of all they have done,” declares the Lord." Jeremiah 31:35‭-‬37 NIV bible.com/bible/111/jer.31.35-37.NIV

LOL, I was reading that Torah bit you told us about and the researchers used psychedelic mushrooms to read it. LOL, what a good joke. Is it true that "religious" researchers are allowed to use magic mushrooms but the rest of us are not? Hypocrisy. Maybe Joseph Smith REALLY DID read the "golden tablets"?!

Someone said truth was bitter and hard to accept and it is so ,if people have a lot of hard time beliebe the scientific method atleast to predict the working of the material world ,how will they even have the ability to judge a truth like morality etc which are slippery but yet important to humans

I have yet to figure out what the point of this talk and video is?

Look at the Hebrew Matthew - the kingdom parables - he went away on a long trip - not to pretend otherwise as Paul did.

Maybe the resurrection of the dead messiah is in the raising up of the next?

The Day of the Gathering refers to the return of the Dwellers of the Cave who led the Essene rebellion of Simone Bar Kokhba as referred to in the 18th chapter of The Quran and The Prophet like Moses was Prophet Muhammad who became a prophet to this community who were living in the deserts of Hijaz.

How can one compare the anointing of the Ruach HaKodesh on the incarnate Son of Man just after His tevilah on Chag Tirosh in 34 CE with that of mere anointing oil reserved specifically for human male priests and kings? That’s why the incarnate Yehoshu’a HaMashiach will return at the beginning of the third age in 5881 AM-immediately AFTER the Tribulation as He prophesied-to establish His Millennial Reign ON EARTH. But, the story doesn’t end there… #QuestionEverything BTW, it was three literal yomim (15-17 Abib) after His crucifixion and burial on Pesach (14 Abib) in 36 CE-before the annual Sabbath which was the first day of Chag HaMatzot (15 Abib)-when He was resurrected as Lord of the weekly Sabbath on 18 Abib. You know nothing about Torah nor the Enochian calendar employed by the “sect” called THE WAY (Gr. tēn Hodon/Heb. HaDerech) mentioned throughout Acts as well as the sectarian manuscripts of the DSS. The Maccabees/Hasmoneans usurped the Levitical priesthood from the sons of Zadok, who considered Jerusalem and the Second Temple to be defiled. They founded Qumran in the desert wilderness of Judea (i.e., the prophesied “voices crying out in the wilderness” and true “wise mean of the east”). Yochanan went there to study; see Luke 1:80. The married members of this “sect” resided in Damascus. Where was Sha’ul going to persecute the men and women of THE WAY? ALL modern churches and synagogues (as well as schools of “higher education”) are chock full of false traditions (embellishments not in Scripture), precepts of men (manufactured theology), and doctrines of demons (assimilated paganism) as was prophesied. Tabor is just another false teacher!

70 ce - 1967 ce "The times of the Gentiles". Now what?

That's the first time that I have seen a real depiction of the crucified Christ completely naked on a cross.

Maybe the Son of Man did return in 79 AD. What Christian would have been there to report on it. There seems to be a lot of missing history in those days.

Many Christians reject the Jewishness of Jesus, because of Paul. "...and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ..." Philippians 3:8

I'm 3 min into this video and you left us hanging wondering who anointed Jesus.

More to the point in practical terms: I think "jesus meek and mild" and being a dead messiah were, from a life-in-the-streets point of view a necessary marketing decision. Why? By at least 117 C.E. you I doubt you could SELL a warrior messiah (the traditional motif) because far too many had already in the last century and a quarter had been ending up on crosses and taking thousands, sometimes tens of thousands of their fellow Jews with them to the crosses, death in the mines or arena or simply lifelong slavery. Whether they were followers or not. The stomach for rebellion was seriously wounded by the 66 revolt, deeply soured by the Kitos war and retribution (115-117) and completely sick of by the time Bar-Kokhba's revolt was put down. Many of the revolt leaders messiahs, whether self proclaimed, claimed by the populace or just believed by their armies. And all of them brought devastation and misery to Judaism itself. Because: Just because you were a Jew not living in Judea in 66 you were still far from safe. Namely when a province revolted ethnic enclaves in Roman cities stood a very good chance of getting a visit from the "torch and pitchfork brigade." Mob violence against ethnicities for the actions of a far-flung province was common and often state sanctioned. The Gauls for example were frequent recipients of pogrom violence and mass death. The motif for a Jew to deny Judaism and/or start a new branch to avoid direct association was never higher in their history.

Been here the whole time neverleft

God spoke to my right ear from Heaven above. My thoughts did not make my right ear drum tickle nor did my thoughts create a burning Spiderweb that did not burn 8.4.2015 when God spoke to me. It is my birthday 3.11.

I still believe Jesus rised from the dead and He is coming back fiscally with a glorious body . Is about faith . This world is a hot mess .

So many fanatics commenting here...

Were Helenized rabbis the wicked ones?

BAR (Biblical Archaeology Review) has no problem in publishing negative opinions about the Shroud of Turin which inform the reader that "sober observers" think that the Shroud's carbon fourteen evidence in irrefutable proof of a medieval date. Prof. Tabor apparently shares the viewpoint of the BAR editors.

These comments are gold

The Teacher is Yeshua, student of Joshua ben Perachiah! Jesus is 100 Before of AD.

James, I accept that the term 'gathering in' IS used in biblical useage to refer to the gathering of the soul back to the Universal Spirit on High (or back to God); BUT the same term 'gathering in' is used in parables of Jesus in relation to gathering/garnering believers into the community as well; so could the useage in the documents also refer to the re-gathering of the community back after the scattering in physical life as well as souls into spiritual life? Indeed, the parallels in two meanings may have been a key understanding in setting the text down for remembering. It still follows the standard that there is one superficial understanding for those who 'do not hear/see', and a different and deeper one for those who do?

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15:38 teacher of righteousness

The picture shows naked men??

Ecclesiastes 1:1-18

There seems to be an inherent danger in connecting the Jewish writings with the later New Testament writings. The Christian teacher Paul probably had the most extensive formal Jewish training in the Torah than any of the disciples of Jesus BUT it is clear that his understanding of the deeper QBLH of the Torah (like most jews) was not complete or he would not have switched sects to the Jesus sect. It would seem Paul switched for egoic reasons as he would have been viewed as an intellectual powerhouse compared to the other members of this text.

Did you see him die? Or were told he did, what if they gotten wrong guy namely Lazarus?

I’m right here and been “out” since 2/22/22. I suggest you contact me Mr. Tabor.

Our esteemed professor certainly doesn’t waste much money on clothes ! Never seen him wear anything but a T shirt. Maybe he’s always on his way to or from an archaeological dig ...

God the Father is Spirit and manifested fully in Christ the "Son". Simple. Through Christ, God gave us back the divine life mankind lost in its fall. Hence the divine healing miracles and casting out of demons, we experience up to this day. To not see God in Christ.... is impossible. "The Father and I are one!" "If you see Me, you see the Father!" "Don't you believe that the Father is IN Me?" "ALL (!) AUTHORITY in heaven and earth has been given to Me!". (Only God has all authority). At healing the paralytic: "Your sins have been forgiven you!" (Only God can forgive sins). "I am THE (not a) light of the world"......: God. "I have come to give you Zoë (=divine life) in abundance".... Only God can give Zoë life. "I am from above, you are from beneath. You are from this world, I am not from this world"..... Etc, etc, etc, When He explained these things, healed the sick, casted out demons, raised the dead, controlled nature for 3 years, they all worshipped Him as God/Messiah.... except for the critical scholars and farisees! He NEVER said: "Don't worship Me, I am just a prophet!". The Jews wanted to stone Him because: "You claim to be God". So Jesus is God manifesting in Human form. Period. Glad He did. So now we finally know the sayings and actions of God. Next step. To not see Jesus bringing the divine life of the ages back to you-manity.... is impossible. "I will send Holy Spirit, the same as Me, He will be IN you, guide you into truth and give you explosive power to heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out demons, etc, etc" "Follow Me, the miracles I do, you will do too" "God is IN you" "The Kingdom of God is IN you" "He who meets you, meets Me". "You and I are one" "You will understand that the Father is IN Me and I am in you" "See, I have given you power over all the forces of the enemy" "I have come to give you Zoë (=divine life) in abundance!" Etc, etc, etc. Hence the divine healing miracles and casting out of demons with His first 12+72 friends. As i understood these things, i experienced healing miracles and the casting out of demons already thousands of times and many other true believers do too. Yay! Conclusion of Paul after having revelation and healing all on Malta: "Jesus, the exact image of the invisible God. The fullness of deity dwells in Jesus bodily" and you have been made complete IN Him (the last Adam), who is the head of every principality and power". John (who had seen, touched, heard Jesus and walked in the same power and love): "the invisible God manifested in human form, in Christ and now in us". Thomas having revelation saying to Jesus: "My Lord and My God!". Jesus being God did NOT correct Him. Etc, etc, etc. His life totally proves He is God in human form. Begotten by the Spirit of God, filled with the spirit of God, healing all, raising the dead, casting out demons, controlling nature, raised from the dead, pouring out His Spirit for us to be indwelled by to be empowered to heal the sick and cast out demons, etc, etc, etc. Way to much to degrade Him to "just a prophet". So... Jesus is the manifestation of God in a human body.... "the Son" of God. He came to take the alienation away mankind got trapped in after the fall. He came to give us back the divine life Adam/mankind lost in its fall. Because of this fall, a perfect Holy sacrifice had to be made. That is what God did in Christ! It shows His deep, pure, affectionate passion from Him to you/His creation, to restore you back to origin: Christlikeness. Walking in divine power and unselfish divine love. Jesus walked flawless. Muhammed on the other hand.... Muhammed came after Jesus. He unfortunately never understood God's resolve for mankind's fall, wrote another story, called it the only truth, cutting of the real truth, leading millions astray from their godly identity in Christ. Heartbreaking. But for those who take Jesus for who He is and ask to be filled by His godly Holy Spirit.....: divine life. Tangible presence of God, healings, demons running for cover, etc. Just as with His first 12+72 friends. God will make you experience the full (godly) Life made possible through Holy Spirit. So don't be afraid to leave islam. God can only be found in/through Jesus Christ. Ask Him to fill you with His/God's Holy Spirit so He can guide you into truth and transform your life. You and God/Jesus are finally one again. He will open your eyes and give you Zoë (divine life). You will be growing into Him in all things. The life you see in Him and His first 12+72 friends. I experience it since 25 years and so will you.

How many Messiah's did the Jews expect?

Didn’t Caesar anoint himself when he was in Egypt 🇪🇬? He had a discourse in a lighthouse, they made a movie 🎥 about it.. every once in a while the people have a leader. There is always a snake 🐍. Good and evil.

HOSEA 6:2 NOT VERSE 6

"apocalypticism stage one is acute imminent expectation so you don't even get married you don't even have your teeth filled you don't buy insurance this is all paul first corinthians 7. you stay as you are if you're a slave don't worry you'll be free so quickly you don't even need to give it any thought that's stage one stage two is saying wait a minute it's going to be a lot longer than we thought maybe we calculated wrong often some recalculations right and stage three is finally saying you know really we don't know when it's going to come but look at the quote if it carries weight for it it will surely come and not be late it's laid according to you but it's not late according to god that's exactly luke chapter one disciples will you at this time restore the kingdom to israel what luke is saying is that's what we thought during the first generation so what does jesus now say ah it's not for you to know the times and the seasons what the father has put in his own authority you just need to do yourjob at preaching the gospel to the world ..."

i would call John the baptist as the messiah from aaron since he is a levite and Yeshua is from from israel.

48:24 I wonder if the christian community living in the mid-60s would know about this text. If Mark was written in the 60s or 70s, they almost certainly wouldn't have access to mark... But is it reasonable to assume that they would have had access to this speech of Jesus? (Or, maybe Mark placed the speech in Jesus' mouth right around the time the Jerusalem and the temple were being destroyed?)

Depends on how you define GENERATION! I think Jeshua JUST means the genealogical tree of Israel and Jehuda.

That would be a redundant question, All of then are nailed to the cross an never returned lol..

Where is your PhD in religion a doctrine?

Zechariah 13:7 "Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered, and I will turn my hand against the little ones." This is the reason why the Lord states in Matthew 12:30 "Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters." Also relating to "smite the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered" is Matthew 24:43 "But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into." Sounds like the Peter falling asleep incident. My point is Christ the real Christ would have left before judas returned, why? John 14:30-31 "I will not say much more to you, for the prince of this world is coming. He has no hold over me, I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise let us go from here." This is eternal Life referring to death by saying "he has no hold on me" Christ never died however did ascend. This is the true meaning for the phrase "the old king is dead, long live the King." the "King of kings."

The death of Jesus brought the baptism of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. He is come into His holy temple; the body of the born again believer. The Shroud of Turin is not a stand alone artifact. It is the Gospel written on The Tabernacle. His "Tent". Paul preached the Passover Lamb has come to take away the sins of the world not cover the sins but remove them. The heart of the Law is Mercy. The Mercy Seat has been covered with His blood.

Jesus tells His disciplines in the verses leading up to Luke 21 they will be persecuted and killed for His sake. Then He says: “They [the Jews] will fall by the edge of the sword and be taken as prisoners to all nations. Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.” Did this happen? Yes, 40 years after Jesus was crucified the Temple was destroyed and the Jewish diaspora began. In 1967, following the establishment of Israel in 1948 and the Six Day war, the Jews regained Israel. The words of Jesus were fulfilled, no way around it. Furthermore, in verse 25 Jesus says: “On the Earth nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea.” Interesting how, in the years since Israel regained Jerusalem, the world’s nations have been in anguish and perplexed over the rising levels of our roaring seas and climate change. If Jesus was a false prophet He sure was good at getting future predictions spot on correct. Maybe that’s just another coincidence surrounding Him, too.

Unless a church or religion is started That is based on common sense, Other religions based on absurdities will continue to Flourish worldwide