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		<title>Jesus son of Pantera: Poetic Remembrances</title>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2008/05/13/488/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 02:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Tabor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have recounted previously on this Blog the remarkable story of my discovery of the late great Poet James Whitehead and his historical and literary interest in the sources that refer to Jesus of Nazareth as &#8220;Yeshua ben Pantera.&#8221; Whitehead, who died in 2003, co-founded the prestigious Creative Writing Program at the University of Arkansas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thomas Hardy on Panthera</title>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2007/01/15/thomas-hardy-on-panthera/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2007 04:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Tabor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For years I have considered Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) one of the most moving, informative, and influential novelists of my own reading experience. I remember first reading Tess of the d&#8217;Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure over 30 years ago and the images and power of those tragically realistic portrayals of human life on planet earth still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>James Whitehead on &#8220;The Panther&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2007 01:23:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Tabor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want to share an amazing story.
Not too long after the publication of my book The Jesus Dynasty in April, 2006 I heard from an old friend who shared my interest in Pantera. This friend moves in literary circles and told me that she had heard of a professor in Arkansas who had recently died [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Mormon Perspective &amp; More on Pantera</title>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2006/12/30/a-mormon-perspective-more-on-pantera/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Dec 2006 15:34:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Tabor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kerry Shirts, who goes by the tag &#8220;The Backyard Professor,&#8221; has an extensive review of The Jesus Dynasty on his latest Blog. Kerry is a Christian and a Mormon, a exceptionally wide reader of books and ancient sources related to ancient Judaism and early Christianity. He has the refreshingly rare ability to profitably engage with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exploring Pantera Possibilities &amp; Remembering Hugh J. Schonfield</title>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2006/12/26/exploring-pantera-possibilities-remembering-hugh-j-schonfield/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Dec 2006 17:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Tabor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my graduate students, Chad Day, who has been working on the Pantera materials in antiquity, recently reminded me of the treatment of the Pantera tradition by the late and great Hugh J. Schonfield, a somewhat maverick UK scholar and author of the best-selling The Passover Plot, just re-released in a special 40th anniversary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The James Ossuary and Pantera (Again!)</title>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2006/12/10/the-james-ossuary-and-pantera-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Dec 2006 22:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Tabor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted here to offer a few notes and observations in response to Jack Poirier’s on-line review of my book, The Jesus Dynasty on the Jerusalem Perspectives Web site. I would not attempt to respond here to the underlying theological differences between us, and how Mr. Poirier’s assumptions differ from my own as a “liberal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joining the Slanderers</title>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2006/09/29/joining-the-slanderers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 21:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Tabor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We know nothing about the circumstances of Mary&#8217;s pregnancy other than the two accounts in Matthew 1 and Luke 2, and the traditions that Jesus was called &#8220;Yeshu ben Pantera,&#8221; son of a Roman soldier named Pantera. If Jesus had a human father, and Joseph, who later married his mother Mary/Miriam, was not responsible for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mystery of the Missing Joseph</title>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2006/09/24/the-mystery-of-the-missing-joseph/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2006/09/24/the-mystery-of-the-missing-joseph/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Sep 2006 16:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Tabor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most intriguing subjects in our New Testament Gospels is the near silence about Joseph, husband of Mary. If one reads the Gospels in the order in which we think they were written, that is Mark first, then Matthew, then Luke, then John, the case of the &#8220;missing Joseph&#8221; is even more obvious. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More from a Reader on Pantera</title>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2006/08/06/more-from-a-reader-on-pantera/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2006/08/06/more-from-a-reader-on-pantera/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Aug 2006 02:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Tabor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently received the following e-mail message from a reader of my book in Germany. I thought his research and comments were worth passing along. Some of the issues he raises I have addressed in previous posts at this site, but I pass it on as is, unedited, for what it might contribute to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Origin of the Idea that &#8220;Pantera&#8221; is a Not a Real Name</title>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2006/08/02/the-origin-of-the-idea-that-pantera-is-a-not-a-real-name/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2006/08/02/the-origin-of-the-idea-that-pantera-is-a-not-a-real-name/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Aug 2006 00:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Tabor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As some of you know, and as I mention in my book, The Jesus Dynasty, the most commonly accepted explanation for the tradition that Jesus is &#8220;son of Pantera&#8221; is that the word pantera is a pun for the Greek word parthenos or &#8220;virgin&#8221; in Greek and not a &#8220;real name.&#8221; In other words, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Unnamed Father of Jesus?</title>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2006/07/26/an-unnamed-father-of-jesus/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2006/07/26/an-unnamed-father-of-jesus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jul 2006 04:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Tabor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jesus was born of a woman, of that everyone but the most extreme docetic Gnostic would seem to agree. But how was it that Mary became pregnant?
There are three basic positions that have been offered in response to the two birth stories we get in Matthew and Luke: 1) Jesus had no human father; 2) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More on the German Panthera Tombstone</title>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2006/07/20/more-on-the-german-panthera-tombstone/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2006/07/20/more-on-the-german-panthera-tombstone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2006 23:48:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Tabor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I pointed out in a recent post on this Blog, the term &#8220;Jesus son of Pantera&#8221; comes up in 2nd century AD Greek and Jewish sources, including texts associated with stories set in the city of Sepporis, just four miles from Nazareth where Jesus grew up. In chapter 3 of The Jesus Dynasty, titled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;Jesus son of Panthera&#8221; Traditions</title>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2006/07/13/the-jesus-son-of-panthera-traditions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2006/07/13/the-jesus-son-of-panthera-traditions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 21:35:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Tabor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Predictably one of the more controversial topics in my book The Jesus Dynasty is my discussion in chapter 3 titled &#8220;An Unnamed Father of Jesus?&#8221; in which I treat the &#8220;Jesus son of Pantera/Pantira&#8221; traditions. The topic has generated more than one sensational headline as well as lots of disdainful treatment, particularly from evangelical Christian [...]]]></description>
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