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		<title>Jesus Was Crucified 1978 Years Ago Today</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:56:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Tabor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our best historical evidence, based on the computer programs that reconstruct the astronomical past, as well as various ancient calendars, including the Jewish, indicate that Jesus was crucified on a Thursday, April 4, in the year 30 AD.
That means today at sundown, April 3/4, as Thursday fades into Friday by Jewish reckoning, marks the actual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Day Christ Died</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Tabor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The subject heading is the title of a most famous book by Jim Bishop, The Day Christ Died, published in 1957 by Harper Collins with an official Imprimatur by the famous Archbishop of New York Francis Cardinal Spellman&#8211;guaranteeing it &#8220;free of doctrinal or moral error.&#8221;  The book is still available in reprint editions. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forgotten Sources &amp; Lost Texts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Tabor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The research of many scholars of early Christianity over the past two centuries has enabled us to recover a lost and alternative perspective on the Jesus movement following the crucifixion. This perspective is in sharp contrast to the standard portrayal of Luke-Acts, in which Peter and Paul, as the two chief apostles, work in harmony [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Josephus on John, Jesus, and James</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Tabor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am of the view that the descriptions that Josephus, the 1st century CE Jewish historian, gives us of John the Baptizer, Jesus, and James, the brother of Jesus, are of immense value to the historian of early Christianity. These three figures, all brutally murdered by the political and religious establishment, just happen to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Josephus on Crucifixion</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 02:36:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Tabor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joseph bar Matthias, better known to English readers as Josephus (b. 37 C.E.), the 1st century Jewish historian, is our best literary source for the practice of crucifixion in Palestine during the 1st century CE. At one point he describes the practice as &#8220;that most wretched of deaths&#8221; (War 7. 203). As a general in [...]]]></description>
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