Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
James Daniel Tabor (born 1946) is an American Biblical scholar and retired Professor of Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he taught from 1989 until 2022 and served as chair from 2004 to 2014.
Why Waco?: Cults and the Battle for Religious Freedom in America is a 1995 non-fiction book written by James D. Tabor and Eugene V. Gallagher on the Waco siege and the anti-cult movement in America. It was published by the University of California Press. [1] The same press reprinted it in 1997 in paperback. [2]
The Jesus Dynasty is a 2006 book written by James Tabor in which he develops the hypothesis that the original Jesus movement was a dynastic one, with the intention of overthrowing the rule of Herod Antipas; that Jesus of Nazareth was a royal messiah, while his cousin John the Baptist planned to be a priestly messiah.
James D. Tabor for Nova Religio believes that Newport provides a strong historical account of the Branch Davidian and Davidian Seventh-day Adventist movements, but Newport's analysis of the last two weeks of the siege are very weak. [3]
In the book Theorising Religion: Classical and Contemporary Debates edited by James A. Beckford and John Walliss, Hassan is described as a "scholar" belonging to the faction of "cult bashers." [121] George D. Chryssides: 1945– Religious studies Chryssides is the author, contributor and editor for several references covering new religious ...
James D. Tabor [51] argues that the beloved disciple is James, brother of Jesus (the type of relative to Jesus, brother or cousin, depends on how one translates the word). One of several pieces of evidence Tabor offers is a literal interpretation of John 19:26: [ 52 ] "Then when Jesus saw His mother and the disciple whom He loved standing by ...
Tabor, James D. "Ancient Judaism: Nazarenes and Ebionites" Archived 2010-06-10 at the Wayback Machine, The Jewish Roman World of Jesus. Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (1998). Taylor, Joan E. Christians and the Holy Places: The Myth of Jewish-Christian Origins. Oxford University Press (1993).
The Jesus Project, announced in December 2007, was intended as a five-year investigation to examine whether Jesus existed as a historical figure. Plans envisaged that a group of 32 scholars from a variety of disciplines would meet regularly with no preconceived ideas, funded by the Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion, part of the Center for Inquiry.