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Tabor, James D. 1946-
PERSONAL:
Born 1946; children: five. Education: Pepperdine University, B.A., M.A.; University of Chicago, Ph.D.
ADDRESSES:
Home—Charlotte, NC. Office— University of North Carolina, 9201 University City Blvd., Charlotte, NC 28223-0001. E-mail—[email protected].
CAREER:
University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, faculty member, 1979-85; College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, faculty member, 1985-89; University of North Carolina, Charlotte, faculty member and chair of the department of religious studies, 1989—.
AWARDS, HONORS:
Things Unutterable was named one of the ten best scholarly studies on Paul of the 1980s by the Journal of Religion.
WRITINGS:
Things Unutterable: Paul's Ascent to Paradise in Its Greco-Roman, Judaic, and Early Christian Contexts, University Press of America (Lanham, MD), 1986.
(With Arthur J. Droge) A Noble Death: Suicide and Martyrdom among Christians and Jews in Antiquity, HarperSanFrancisco (San Francisco, CA), 1992.
(With Eugene V. Gallagher) Why Waco? Cults and the Battle for Religious Freedom in America,University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), 1995.
The Jesus Dynasty: The Hidden History of Jesus, His Royal Family, and the Birth of Christianity, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY
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Dr. James D. Tabor Research
Enjoy the silly cartoon--all in fun--and I thank Jonathan Sheffield for creating it for me. Here is a short Bio about my academic career:
Dr. James Tabor is a retired Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte where he taught Christian origins and ancient Judaism for thirty-three years, serving as Chair of the Department for a decade. His Ph.D. is from the University of Chicago. He now devotes himself full-time to research, archaeological field work, and publishing. Tabor previously taught at the University of Notre Dame and the College of William and Mary. Tabor combines his work on ancient texts with extensive field work in archaeology in Israel and Jordan. Since 2008 he has been co-director of the acclaimed Mt Zion excavation in Jerusalem and been involved in a half dozen other archaeological projects in the Holy Land over the past thirty years. In the early 1990s he was involved in the release of the unpublished Dead Sea Scrolls and was one of the first scholars to examine and publish several very important ones. In 1995 he testified before the US Congress on the Waco tragedy, drawing upon his expertise in understanding ancient Biblical apocalyptic ideas. His popular TaborBlog has a fre