In this presentation to my "Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls" course I go through the various ways in which scholars have sought to position, situate and understand the Dead Sea scrolls in the wider contexts of various forms of Judaism and the emerging 1st century John the Baptist/Jesus/James the Just movement.

In this final video in my mini-series on the Final Week of Jesus' Life I offer an overview of his arrests, trials before the Jewish and Roman authorities, his crucifixion, and his burial.

In this new series I have gathered together a list of fateful New Testament passages that have been both understood and misunderstood over subsequent ages in ways that reinforce and foster incalculable harm to our lives. I did not try to order these into any kind of priority and I think that would be a difficult thing to determine. These "affirmations" have so direly affected so many billions of people over the past two thousand years I would not want to even attempt to put one above the other in terms of fateful impact. Keep in mind that this series is not about what any of these passages in fact mean, but rather how they have been understood and applied to our personal, social, civil, and spiritual lives with great harmful consequence and effect. The simple phrase--"The Bible tells me so" has justified and covered a multitude of sins!

A critical historical examination of our various sources both in the New Testament and outside regarding Jesus' Empty Tomb on Easter Morning.

In this podcast I offer my own very personal overview of the way my forty year academic career began to shift once I began to work on the Dead Sea Scrolls and doing archaeology here. For an archive video of those early days see: https://youtu.be/DbrufyTudxo