In this interview with Megan Lewis, host of the Youtube channel  @DigitalHammurabi   I offer an overview of a more extensive lecture on the topic of "The Making of a Messiah," I discuss some of the methods scholars use to peer through our historical and material evidence to try to get at what we call the "historical figure of Jesus," not so much what people came to believe theologically, but what he in fact was in his own time, within his Jewish-Greco-Roman contexts.  Be sure and check out Megan's Youtube channel for much more! She and I have done several interviews and I find her to be among the best interlocutors out there. 

For a more extensive treatment and a free link to my major published article on the subject, see: jamestabor.com/messiahmaking

https://youtu.be/M-7l73i1DTw

In this continuing series of Jesus' last week the activities of Jesus in the Jerusalem Temple led to the "plot to kill" by a select "mafia-like" gang of priests who are even viewed negatively in Jewish sources.

In this new series of podcasts beginning today, April 8th, five days before Passover on the Jewish calendar, I begin to trace the last journey of Jesus to Jerusalem. Subsequent podcasts will carry us through his crucifixion and the aftermath of both despair and faith, in the future and significance of his message.

Millions of Christians for nearly 2000 years have assumed, based on faulty translations--and frankly, Handel's Messiah--that Jesus is referred to as the Mighty God and Everlasting Father by the Prophet Isaiah...Here is the back story.f

A plain historical reading of Isaiah 7 and 8 in context reveals that Immanuel is NOT Jesus or any Messiah--it is Isaiah's Son!

Millions have read the quotation in Matthew from Isaiah 7:14 that reads in the King James Version--"A Virgin shall conceive," and taken that text as predicting Jesus' virgin birth. As it turns out the Isaiah text says nothing of the kind, and has not only been poorly translated, but read totally out of content.

You can download a free PDF of my notes here:

https://jamestabor.com/virginbirth

In this new series on my Youtube channel, to run concurrently with the present series, "Lost in Translation," we work on learning how to spot and identify texts of the Bible, whether Hebrew Bible/O.T. or New Testament, that have been overlaid with what appear to be disjunctive interpolations inserted for polemical reasons. .

Millions sing the old evangelical Christian hymn "I Know that My Redeemer Lives," referring to Jesus. However, the idea comes from Job 19 and it turns out it has been seriously mistranslated in Christian versions of the Bible and the actual meaning is something totally different--but equally amazing!

Millions for centuries--and into our own time, read Genesis 2 and the creation of Adam from the dust as referring only to his body--but then he receives the "breath of life" from God and becomes a living soul--special and above the animals, who are only beasts who perish.

The traditional translation of "Den of Thieves" is misleading both in the mouth of Jesus in the Jerusalem Temple--but more significant,--in the mouth of the Prophet Jeremiah whom Jesus quotes. Here is the back-story on what was really going on, both in the time of Jeremiah and of Jesus.