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		<title>PBS Interviews &#8220;Closer to Truth&#8221; Hosted by Dr. Robert L. Kuhn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My interviews on the PBS Series “Closer to Truth,” hosted by Dr. Robert L. Kuhn, have now been posted on line–twelve topics in all on topics ranging from the historical to the theological. This amazing show is in its third season and the new series on  “Cosmos, God, &#38; Consciousness” pulls together top experts from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2010/02/23/pbs-interviews-closer-to-truth-hosted-by-dr-robert-l-kuhn/</link>
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		<title>New Book by Jeffrey Bütz: The Secret Legacy of Jesus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometime in Spring, 2006 I was browsing one of the local bookstores here in Charlotte and came across a title that seemed to jump of the shelves&#8211;The Brother of Jesus and the Lost Teachings of Christianity by Jeffrey Bütz. In thumbing through the book I immediately realized that the brother in question was none other [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2010/01/26/new-book-by-jeffrey-butz-the-secret-legacy-of-jesus/</link>
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		<title>Latest on the Talpiot Tomb: Doing the Numbers&#8211;Again!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a most interesting and helpful article on the Talpiot &#8220;Jesus&#8221; tomb titled &#8220;Talpiot Dethroned&#8221; by Kevin Kilty and Mark Elliot on the Web site The Bible and Interpretation. Kilty and Elliot have previously  published two papers on the subject of the statistical probabilities of the names-cluster found in the tomb, &#8220;Probability, Statistics, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2010/01/25/latest-on-the-talpiot-tomb-doing-the-numbers-again/</link>
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		<title>Nazareth in the time of Jesus Exposed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was away in Israel on two separate trips in December, 2009 and want to catch up on quite a few news items, books, and notices that I have not had time to post. Some of this might be old news by now but I wanted to go ahead with a series of posts, for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2010/01/06/nazareth-in-the-time-of-jesus-exposed/</link>
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		<title>A Different Sort of &#8220;Silent Night&#8221;</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2009/12/22/a-different-sort-of-silent-night/</link>
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		<title>The Tomb of the Shroud: A Scientific Analysis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is the link to the academic peer-reviewed paper that can be dowloaded as a PDF or printed, that has generated the various news stories about the Akeldama &#8220;Tomb of the Shroud&#8221; around the world. Although much of the media focus has been on the &#8220;shroud&#8221; material and how it differs from that of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2009/12/17/the-tomb-of-the-shroud-a-scientific-analysis/</link>
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		<title>The Tomb of the Shroud: Earliest Case of Leprosy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;Tomb of the Shroud&#8221; which was discovered and investigated in 2000 by Shimon Gibson, Boaz Zissu, and me, with a team of our UNC Charlotte students  in the summer of 2000, continues to yield up many scientific secrets about life and death in Jerusalem in the time of Jesus. I related the basic story [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2009/12/16/the-tomb-of-the-shroud-earliest-case-of-leprosy/</link>
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		<title>James Ossuary in the News Again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in October, 2002 when Hershel Shanks, editor of Biblical Archaeology Review revealed the existence of an ossuary that had once held the bones of &#8220;James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus,&#8221; few in the media or the public knew what an ossuary was or that Jesus even had any brothers. A lot has happened [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2009/09/10/james-ossuary-in-the-news-again/</link>
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		<title>Personal Reflections on the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2009/08/21/personal-reflections-on-the-hebrew-bible-and-the-new-testament/</link>
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		<title>The Jesus Dynasty in Swedish and Remembering Olof Ribb</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am most pleased to have in hand a copy of Jesus-Dynastin: Den dolda historien om Jesus, hans kungliga familj och kristendoms foedelse, namely The Jesus Dynasty in Swedish, published by Schibsted Foerlagan in Stockholm. It is a most handsome edition, hard cover, nicely printed, with the the illustrations and photos produced in high quality. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2009/03/25/jesus-dynastin-published-swedish-translation/</link>
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		<title>Update on The Jesus Dynasty in Many Tongues&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to update readers on the various foreign editions of The Jesus Dynasty. Just yesterday I received a copy of the new paperback of the Italian edition. The book has done very well in Italy and has been on bestseller lists, so having it out in a handsome paper edition is most welcome indeed. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2009/03/10/update-on-the-jesus-dynasty-in-many-tongues/</link>
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		<title>A Facebook Group:The Jesus Dynasty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who have a Facebook account, and if you do not you can create one by going to Facebook.com, I have created a new Facebook Group called The Jesus Dynasty. The following is a general description of the group:
&#8220;The Jesus Dynasty Facebook group draws together those who have learned and benefited from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2009/03/07/a-facebook-groupthe-jesus-dynasty/</link>
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		<title>Check TaborBlog for Latest Posts&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Please go to my new TaborBlog for latest regular posts.
I am pleased and humbly surprised to report that this new Blog, only a month old this week, made the latest listing of “Top 50 Biblioblogs,” coming in modestly at number 24. Since most of my regular readers were habitually wedded to this Jesus Dynasty site, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2009/03/05/check-taborblog-for-latest-posts/</link>
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		<title>Latest Report on Jerusalem Mt Zion Excavation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Mark Elliot and the editors of the newly revived Web site Bible Interpretation for carrying a featured article on the latest report on our very exciting Mt Zion excavation in Jerusalem. You can read the report with pictures here. Bible Interpretation was, in my view, one of the finest sites on-line and it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2009/03/03/latest-report-on-jerusalem-mt-zion-excavation/</link>
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		<title>Sad News for Academic Freedom in Germany</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am reposting a link here to Thomas Verenna&#8217;s Blog, just up this morning, regarding the late breaking news of the decision of the Supreme Court of Germany regarding the case of Professor Gerd Luedemann, historian, theologian, and New Testament scholar. I have known professor Luedemann for many years and most recently have enjoyed contact [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2009/02/22/sad-news-for-academic-freedom-in-germany/</link>
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		<title>Paternity of Jesus: An Interview in Profil Magazine</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2009/01/22/profile-on-jesus-father-in-profil/</link>
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		<title>Old and New Covnants</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2009/01/18/old-and-new-covnants/</link>
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		<title>Integrating and Expanding My Web and Blog Sites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to announce a new &#8220;landing page,&#8221; at the domain jamestabor.com, that integrates four web sites that I maintain related to my academic work, including a new one, TaborBlog, that begins today.
This Jesus Dynasty blog will continue, including its rich archive of materials posted since its inception in April, 2006. However, its focus will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2009/01/01/integrating-and-expanding-my-web-and-blog-sites/</link>
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		<title>The Place of Jesus&#8217; Crucifixion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are two traditional sites in Jerusalem that tourists and pilgrims revere as the likely location of Golgotha&#8211;the place where Jesus was crucified. The oldest and most revered is of course the 4th century Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the holiest site in Christendom. It is located in the Christian Quarter, inside the present Old [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2008/08/24/the-place-of-jesus-crucifixion/</link>
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		<title>The Extraordinary Work of Balage Baloge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to highlight the extraordinary artistic work of Balage Baloge and his contributions to our visualization of the ancient Roman World of Jesus and early Christianity. I first encountered his work in the wonderful volume by John Crossan and Jonathan Reed, Excavating Jesus: Beneath the Stones, Behind the Texts. There one finds dozens of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2008/08/03/the-extraordinary-work-of-balage-baloge/</link>
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