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	<title>Jesus Dynasty / James Tabor</title>
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	<description>The Jesus Dynasty Blog by the author, Dr. James D. Tabor</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 12:25:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>How Jesus Became Christian</title>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2008/05/04/how-jesus-became-christian/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2008/05/04/how-jesus-became-christian/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 02:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Tabor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I want to highly, even extravagantly, recommend a book by Barrie Wilson, York University professor in Toronto, titled How Jesus Became Christian (New York: St. Martins Press, 2008; Random House in Canada). I will go so far as to say that I judge this single book to be one of the most important contributions to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Illahee Lectures in Portland, Oregon</title>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2008/04/29/illahee-lectures-in-portland-oregon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2008/04/29/illahee-lectures-in-portland-oregon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Tabor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I am in Portland, Oregon this week to give a lecture titled &#8220;Who Was Jesus?&#8221; as part of the Illahee Lecture Series. This fascinating and prestigious lecture series is in its ninth year and draws a local audience close to a thousand folks. I wanted to mention this since we have readers who live in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Talpiot Tomb Story Headlined in Toronto Globe &#038; Mail</title>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2008/04/23/talpiot-tomb-story-headlined-in-toronto-globe-mail/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2008/04/23/talpiot-tomb-story-headlined-in-toronto-globe-mail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:03:34 +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[The Toronto Globe and Mail, Canada&#8217;s leading newspaper, ran a story yesterday titled &#8220;University of Toronto Scientist Puts Odds on Lost Tomb&#8221; that headlines Prof. Andrey Feuerverger&#8217;s statistical conclusions on the Talpiot Jesus tomb. Award winning writer Michael Posner, author of the piece, also offers a kind of &#8220;state of the question&#8221; update on a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inside the Numbers on the Talpiot Tomb</title>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2008/04/16/inside-the-numbers-on-the-talpiot-tomb/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2008/04/16/inside-the-numbers-on-the-talpiot-tomb/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:54:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Tabor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a new article on the Web by historian Mark Elliot and mathematician Kevin Kilty. It is titled &#8220;Inside the Numbers on the Talpiot Tomb,&#8221; and is available for downloading on the Web. I quote here their modest opening paragraph:
Inside the Numbers of the Talpiot Tomb
By Mark Elliott and Kevin Kilty
March 20, 2008 
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feuerverger&#8217;s Paper on Talpiot Tomb Statistics Published</title>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2008/04/06/feuervergers-paper-on-talpiot-tomb-statistics-published/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2008/04/06/feuervergers-paper-on-talpiot-tomb-statistics-published/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 03:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Tabor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Talpiot Jesus Family Tomb]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At long last, just over a year after the initial publicity over the Talpiot &#8220;Jesus Family Tomb,&#8221; the formal paper of Prof. Andrey Feuerverger of the University of Toronto has appeared in The Annals of Applied Statistics, the academic journal of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (Vol. 2, no. 1, March, 2008). Feuerverger&#8217;s paper, titled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jesus Was Crucified 1978 Years Ago Today</title>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2008/04/03/jesus-was-crucified-1978-years-ago-today/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2008/04/03/jesus-was-crucified-1978-years-ago-today/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:56:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Tabor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Christian Origins]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>

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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 Jesus Dynasty Blog has been updated.</title>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2008/04/03/the-jesus-dynasty-blog-has-been-updated/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2008/04/03/the-jesus-dynasty-blog-has-been-updated/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jesusdynasty</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[We have moved forward, with an update to our software. Please let us know about any problems. We apologize for the delays in posting on the Blog. I have saved up a whole series of posts that I will begin to put up shortly.
James Tabor
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		<title>Monday after Easter</title>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2008/03/24/monday-after-easter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2008/03/24/monday-after-easter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 03:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Tabor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I was rather amazed to see the number of Blogs, articles, and media treatments over Easter weekend that triumphantly declared that the issue of whether the Talpiot &#8220;Jesus tomb&#8221; might have belonged to Jesus of Nazareth and his family to be &#8220;dead and buried&#8221; forever, to use a bad metaphor. It was as if one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Day Christ Died</title>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2008/03/20/the-day-christ-died/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2008/03/20/the-day-christ-died/#comments</comments>
		<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>The Three Marys</title>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2008/03/12/the-three-marys/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2008/03/12/the-three-marys/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 07:36:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Tabor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the Coptic Gospel of Philip, found in Egypt in 1945 as part of the Nag Hammadi collection, Jesus had three intimate woman named &#8220;Mary,&#8221; or Mariam, in his life, namely, his mother, his sister, and his &#8220;companion,&#8221; Mary Magdalene. However the passage that lists these three Marys is confusing, in that Jesus&#8217; sister [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mt Zion Stands Most Beautiful</title>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2008/03/03/mt-zion-stands-most-beautiful/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2008/03/03/mt-zion-stands-most-beautiful/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Tabor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There are three areas of Jerusalem that have had the name &#8220;Mount Zion&#8221; at various points in history: The City of David, or Ophel, to the south, that in the time of Jesus was called the &#8220;lower city&#8221;; the Temple Mount itself to the north; and the highest point in the city itself, today called [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mt Zion Day One&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2008/03/02/mt-zion-day-one/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2008/03/02/mt-zion-day-one/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 14:26:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Tabor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It is already Sunday afternoon here in Israel. We just completed our first day of digging at the Mt.Zion site. It has been a most wonderful and successful day. We have a exceptionally dedicated and hard working group of Team members/volunteers, ranging from my students to several adults, including two gentlemen in their 70s, who, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Jesus Dynasty Published in Chinese &#038; other News</title>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2008/02/28/the-jesus-dynasty-published-in-chinese-other-news/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2008/02/28/the-jesus-dynasty-published-in-chinese-other-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:59:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Tabor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I just received a copy of The Jesus Dynasty in Chinese produced by Locus Publishing Co. in Taiwan. This marks the 12th of an eventual 25 foreign languages in which the book has sold. It will circulate in all markets except the Mainland and is produced in Chinese Complex Characters. I am working with some [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2008/02/23/guest-post-on-sorting-out-the-marys/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<comments>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2008/02/17/the-two-marys/#comments</comments>
		<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 (&#8221;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>Digging Mount Zion</title>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2008/02/17/digging-mount-zion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2008/02/17/digging-mount-zion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Tabor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks from today, on March 2, which just happens to be my birthday, we will officially inaugurate our Mt Zion Excavation for 2008. We have three sessions planned this year, the first running March 2-28, the other two in the summer running June 15-July 25 and August 17-September 12. Minimum stay in March is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Finds in Magdala</title>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2008/02/13/new-finds-in-magdala/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2008/02/13/new-finds-in-magdala/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:19:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Tabor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I always enjoy reading Antonio Lombatti&#8217;s Web site and Blog, both the rich mixture of news and analysis he brings out as well as the chance to practice my Italian a bit. Antonio and I have our sharp disagreements on the matter of the Talpiot Tomb, but in recent personal e-mail exchanges we are trying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keith Akers on the Talpiot Tomb</title>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2008/02/03/keith-akers-on-the-talpiot-tomb/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2008/02/03/keith-akers-on-the-talpiot-tomb/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 15:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Tabor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Talpiot Jesus Family Tomb]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Keith Akers, author of The Lost Religion of Jesus: Simple Living and Nonviolence in Early Christianity, has written a thoughtful post titled &#8220;Implications of the Jesus Family Tomb at Talpiot&#8221; at his Website. I really appreciated Akers&#8217;s book on Jesus and learned a lot from him. I have found anything he writes to be well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Simcha Jacobovici Issues Statement on the Princeton Conference</title>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2008/01/29/simcha-jacobovici-issues-statement-on-the-princeton-conference/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2008/01/29/simcha-jacobovici-issues-statement-on-the-princeton-conference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Tabor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[At the invitation of Hershel Shanks, editor of Biblical Archaeology Review, filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici has issued a formal statement in reply to the various stories that appeared in the press, and in particularly to the Meyers/Magness declaration that he had manipulated the media covering the Princeton Talpiot tomb conference. His reply is now archived on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Charlesworth in the Jerusalem Post</title>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2008/01/27/interview-with-charlesworth-in-the-jerusalem-post/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2008/01/27/interview-with-charlesworth-in-the-jerusalem-post/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Tabor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a very informative and balanced interview with Princeton Theological Seminar Professor, James Charlesworth, in the Jerusalem Post yesterday. Charlesworth sits down with editor David Horovitz and talks about the aftermath of the Jewish Burial/Talpiot Tomb conference held in Jerusalem, January 13-16th, as well as potential ideas for the future.
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