James D. Tabor

Prof. James Daniel Tabor​ Links • Homepage @ uncc.edu   • Facebook • Tabor Blog   • Genesia - Pensées Tabor • Huffington Post Blog   • Books • James Tabor Page @ Closer to Truth • Articles @ Bible History Daily • 'Paul & Jesus' Talks @ WFAE 90.7

• Closer To Truth Interview :

James Tabor - Authentication and Conflict in Religious Belief?

Humanity's diverse religions have deeply opposing beliefs that conflict and contradict. How then to claim that any one is the 'true religion'?

More Closer To Truth Interviews with James Tabor




• Introduction to [ The Jesus Dynasty ]




• Interview : Paul and Jesus




• UNC Charlotte |  Interview on Talpiot Tombs, Jerusalem




• Interview : Restoring Abrahamic Faith




• Lecture : "Isaiah 40-66 : A Vision For Our Times"

United Israel 73rd Annual Meeting
April 16, 2016 Charlotte, NC

via Roots Of Faith




• Closer to Truth Interview :

James Tabor - Arguing God from Miracles & Revelations?




• Closer to Truth Interview :

James Tabor - A New Heaven & A New Earth?

Many religions envision a radical transformation of reality. The supernatural intervention of God or God-like forces changes everything. What, conceivably, could this new reality be?

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Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden by Wenzel Peter
Wenzel Peter (1745-1829) was an Austrian painter. He painted religious subject and animals. The Vatican has dedicated a room of the Pinacoteca to his work showing animals and scenes from the Bible.

Genesis 1:27f ; 2:15 ( NRSV )

So God created humankind in his image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.
God blessed them, and God said to them,
“Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth ..."
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The Lord God took the man and put him in
the garden of Eden to till it and keep it.


The five prime affirmations of the Hebrew Scriptures

  — by James Daniel Tabor  |  May 29, 2015

1. The Potential :
    Humans reflecting the image of God / Elohim

2. The Way :
    The eternal validity of the essence of the Torah

3. The Plan :
    The Restoration of all Israel
    with the nations transformed

4. The Revelation :
    The historical Manifestations of YHVH
    Above and Below

5. The Goal :
    The Kingdom of God filling the earth
    as the waters cover the seas

The Peaceable Kingdom ( 1826 ), Edward Hicks,
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Isaiah 11:6-9 ( NRSV )

The wolf shall live with the lamb,
the leopard shall lie down with the kid,
the calf and the lion and the fatling together,
and a little child shall lead them.

The cow and the bear shall graze,
their young shall lie down together;
and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

The nursing child shall play over the hole of the asp,
and the weaned child shall put its hand on the adder’s den.

They will not hurt or destroy
on all my holy mountain;
for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord
as the waters cover the sea.