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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.
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.
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 Original Bible Project is a project to produce a re-ordered new translation of the Bible into English led by James Tabor.The Project is a non-profit organisation. [1] The translation is expected to eventually be published under the name Transparent English Bible (TEB).
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).
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Christianity was foreshadowed by Judaism, and was seen as the first "religion of the book" in Western civilization. [3] Judaism, in its earliest years, was distinctive in some ways to other religions; it was the most-recognized monotheistic faith, set apart from all the other faiths that were polytheistic.
The Supreme Court ruled in a 7–2 decision on July 8, 2020 that reversed the Ninth Circuit's ruling, affirming that the principles of Hosanna-Tabor, that a person can be serving an important religious function even if not holding the title or training of a religious leader, satisfied the ministerial exception in employment discrimination.