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	<title>The Jesus Dynasty / James Tabor &#187; Biblical Expositions</title>
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		<title>Was Jesus&#8217; Last Meal a Jewish Passover Seder?</title>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2010/03/18/was-jesus-last-meal-a-jewish-passover-seder/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2010/03/18/was-jesus-last-meal-a-jewish-passover-seder/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Tabor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Was the Last Supper a Jewish Passover Seder? Millions of Christians who are happily and profitably discovering their &#8220;Hebraic roots&#8221; by studying, participating in, and even reenacting &#8220;Passover&#8221; services have equated it with the final evening meal Jesus had with his disciples. Indeed, many so-called &#8220;messianic&#8221; groups have developed an extensive interpretation of the traditional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Different Sort of &#8220;Silent Night&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2009/12/22/a-different-sort-of-silent-night/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2009/12/22/a-different-sort-of-silent-night/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:51:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Tabor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tis the Season&#8221; love it or not but for an alternative take on Jesus&#8217; birth, December 25th, and a different kind of &#8220;Silent Night&#8221; see my essay, just up on the Web at Bible&#38;Interpretation, a site well worth a bit of browsing:
http://www.bibleinterp.com/opeds/xmas357921.shtml
I love this wonderful Armenian portrayal of the meeting of Miriam with her kinswoman [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Personal Reflections on the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament</title>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2009/08/21/personal-reflections-on-the-hebrew-bible-and-the-new-testament/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2009/08/21/personal-reflections-on-the-hebrew-bible-and-the-new-testament/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Tabor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been thinking lately about the essential differences between Judaism and Christianity, or more properly, the kind of religion reﬂected in the Hebrew Bible and that of the Greek New Testament. I have long ago rejected as personal options the major contemporary manifestations of Judaism and Christianity &#8212; by that I mean the Mishnaic-Talmudic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paternity of Jesus: An Interview in Profil Magazine</title>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2009/01/22/profile-on-jesus-father-in-profil/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2009/01/22/profile-on-jesus-father-in-profil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 03:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Tabor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am honored to report that I was given a full page interview with photo in the cover story (translated: &#8220;What Really Happened in Bethlehem?) of the December 15, 2008 issue of Profil magazine.  Profil is the #1 newsweekly of Austria, also read widely in Germany, equivalent to Time or Newsweek. An image of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old and New Covnants</title>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2009/01/18/old-and-new-covnants/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2009/01/18/old-and-new-covnants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 04:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Tabor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biblical Expositions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although there are examples of the Covenant God made with all Israel through Moses at Horeb/Sinai being &#8220;renewed&#8221; at various points (e.g. Deuteronomy 29:1; 2 Kings 23:1-3), the &#8220;New Covenant&#8221; of which Jeremiah speaks (31:31-34) seems to stand out in terms of how it is both described and placed in context.
If one reads carefully that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guest Post on Sorting out the Marys&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2008/02/23/guest-post-on-sorting-out-the-marys/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Tabor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an informal post sent to me by e-mail from Wendy Pond. I asked her for her permission to pass it on. This matter of sorting out the Marys in the three anointing scenes in our gospels (Mark/Matt; Luke, and John) is a complex one. I have shied away from identifying Mary &#8220;called Magdalene&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sorting out the Marys&#8230;**Updated</title>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2008/02/17/the-two-marys/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:34:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Tabor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a most intriguing stained glass window in the Kilmore church (&#8220;Church of Mary&#8221;) in the village of Dervaig on the Scottish Isle of Mull. The scene shows a Jesus figure in a most intimate pose with a woman named Mary who appears to be pregnant. Under the figures is a quotation from Luke [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resurrection Means &#8220;Participation&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2008/01/06/resurrection-means-participation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2008/01/06/resurrection-means-participation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2008 17:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Tabor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For some years now I have made the point to my students that the earliest Christian teaching about the &#8220;resurrection of the dead&#8221; was not so much about the dead &#8220;living&#8221; again in some state, but rather an affirmation about the participation of the dead, along with the living, in the events of the &#8220;last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is a &#8220;Son of God&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2007/12/08/what-is-a-son-of-god/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2007/12/08/what-is-a-son-of-god/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2007 16:39:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Tabor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scholars are aware of the rich and diverse ways in which the term &#8220;Son of God&#8221; is used in the Hebrew Bible, in subsequent Jewish literature, and in the New Testament writings themselves, not to mention various non-Jewish texts (including inscriptions and coins) of the Greco-Roman period. Most of us who teach in the field [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mary Magdalene as &#8220;First Witness&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2007/11/24/mary-magdalene-as-first-witness/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2007/11/24/mary-magdalene-as-first-witness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2007 18:17:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Tabor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carefully re-reading Jane Schaberg&#8217;s book, The Resurrection of Mary Magdalene, has set me to thinking and working through all the texts related to her once again, particularly those in our New Testament gospels. I wanted to do a bit of &#8220;thinking aloud&#8221; here, covering various thoughts and ideas that have come to me of late.
I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What the Bible Says about Death, Afterlife, and the Future, Part Two</title>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2007/10/08/what-the-bible-says-about-death-afterlife-and-the-future-part-two/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2007/10/08/what-the-bible-says-about-death-afterlife-and-the-future-part-two/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2007 23:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Tabor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continued from the previous post&#8230;
THE TIME OF THE EXILE AND BEYOND
Beginning in the eighth century, and well down into the sixth century B.C.E., the nation of Israel suffered through political, social, and military catastrophes. First under the Assyrians, then successively under the Babylonians and Persians, large parts of the population were exiled and their land [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What the Bible Says about Death, Afterlife, and the Future, Part One</title>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2007/10/05/what-the-bible-says-about-death-afterlife-and-the-future-part-one/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2007/10/05/what-the-bible-says-about-death-afterlife-and-the-future-part-one/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 16:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Tabor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in 1989 I had a call from the late Professor Morton Smith of Columbia University. He was editing a book with Joseph Hoffman called What the Bible Really Says. It was a topical treatment of various subjects (Marriage, Divorce, Capital Punishment, et al.) intended to provide readers with a broad survey, running from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sifting Traditions&#8211;Mark and John: Jesus Beyond the Jordan</title>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2007/07/16/sifting-traditions-mark-and-john-jesus-beyond-the-jordan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2007/07/16/sifting-traditions-mark-and-john-jesus-beyond-the-jordan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Tabor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have mentioned a number of times in this series of posts that the gospel of John appears to have an underlying narrative framework that is most useful to the historian when it comes to matters of chronology and geography. In contrast, Mark has few chronological markers, so much so that halfway through his account [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evaluating the Lost Gospel of Peter</title>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2007/07/13/evaluating-the-lost-gospel-of-peter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2007/07/13/evaluating-the-lost-gospel-of-peter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:57:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Tabor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A precious fragmented copy of a portion of the lost Gospel of Peter was discovered in 1886 by the French archaeologist Urbain Bouriant, buried in the tomb of a monk at Akhmim in Upper Egypt. On the basis of the cursive script this copy dates to the 8th or 9th century CE. We don’t know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sifting Traditions&#8211;Mark and John: The Names in our Texts</title>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2007/07/01/sifting-traditions-mark-and-john-the-names-in-our-texts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2007/07/01/sifting-traditions-mark-and-john-the-names-in-our-texts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2007 17:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Tabor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am reading with the greatest benefit, pleasure, and admiration, Richard Bauckham&#8217;s massive new study, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony (Eerdmans, 2006).

For those who know my own work, and that of Bauckham, this high praise might come as a surprise, since it seems Richard and I are on opposite poles of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Empty Tomb: How Traditions Grow</title>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2007/06/26/the-empty-tomb-how-traditions-grow/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2007/06/26/the-empty-tomb-how-traditions-grow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Tabor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is most interesting to compare Mark, Matthew, and Luke, side-by-side, in &#8220;Synoptic&#8221; fashion, when it comes to their accounts of the empty tomb of Jesus and the subsequent &#8220;appearances&#8221; of Jesus to his various followers.
Mark 16:1-8 provides the early core account with what scholars consider to be the original version of Mark ending abruptly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sifting Traditions&#8211;Mark and John: Last Days of Jesus</title>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2007/06/20/sifting-traditions-mark-and-johnlast-days-of-jesus/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2007/06/20/sifting-traditions-mark-and-johnlast-days-of-jesus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Tabor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Christian believers and scholars alike, many of whom are also Christian believers, the most dramatic and riveting section of our N.T. Gospels is the &#8220;Passion Narrative,&#8221; found in three versions in the Synoptics (Mark, Matthew, Luke), as well as in the gospel of John. Whether John&#8217;s Gospel offers an independent version of the narrative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sifting Traditions-Mark and John:The First Burial of Jesus</title>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2007/05/23/sifting-traditions-mark-and-johnthe-first-burial-of-jesus/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2007/05/23/sifting-traditions-mark-and-johnthe-first-burial-of-jesus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2007 00:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Tabor</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Talpiot Jesus Family Tomb]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have been amazed over the years at what one can assume is in the New Testament Gospels and what is actually there. I have been teaching these texts for over 25 years and hardly a year goes by when I don&#8217;t see something I had missed, or have something pointed out by my students [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sifting Traditions&#8211;Mark &amp; John: Mary&#8217;s Memorial</title>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2007/05/20/sifting-traditions-mark-john-marys-memorial/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2007/05/20/sifting-traditions-mark-john-marys-memorial/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2007 23:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Tabor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the more intriguing stories that Mark preserves is that of an unnamed woman who anoints Jesus&#8217; head with an alabaster flask of perfumed oil of pure nard, a fragrant Near Eastern plant, a few days before his death (Mark 14:1-9). The scene takes place at Bethany, a small village on the east slope [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sifting Traditions&#8211;Mark &amp; John: Jesus&#8217; Brothers &amp; Sisters</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2007 23:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Tabor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Mark 6:3 the brothers of Jesus are named as James, Joses, Judas, and Simon and his sisters are mentioned but not named.
Matthew changes this to read: James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas (Matthew 13:55). Luke, true to his desire to marginalize James and the brothers of Jesus in favor of Peter and Paul, drops the [...]]]></description>
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