James Tabor

James Daniel Tabor was born 1946 in Texas and is said to be a Biblical scholar and Professor of Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina.

He retired in 2022 but also was employed at Ambassador College (1968–70), the University of Notre Dame (1979–85), and the College of William and Mary (1985–89).

Tabor is the founder and director of the Original Bible Project.

James Tabor shared this video which speaks about "James the Just" suggesting he disagreed with Paul.

Peter stated;

"14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless. 15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; 16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction. 17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness. 18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen." 2 Peter 3:

Paul and James were not in disagreement with each other but they would both be in disagreement with the Pharisees and modern Christians who take Paul out of the context of Paul and Christ.

James Tabor does not understanding Paul is understandable these days. He does not know what the phrase Son of God means.

But the worst problem I see with Dr Tabor is that he leaves inconvenient facts out all the time in his studies to make his points seem more credible or valid.

He certainly does not know what the kingdom of God is or how it works. He has so many things wrong it is hard to know where to begin except he has the Sadducees approach to religion.

All these writings mention in his video are in agreement once you factor in the gospel of the kingdom.

https://preparingyou.com/wiki/James

https://preparingyou.com/wiki/Gospel_of_James

https://preparingyou.com/wiki/Didache

https://preparingyou.com/wiki/Joseph_of_Arimathea

Dreams and nightmares

Galatians 3:28 "Neither Jew nor Greek, Slave nor Free, Male and Female

"How would we live together in an ideal society?" was published by Karin Neutel in January/February 2018 issue of BAR and republished by James Tabor January 09, 2024.

They see "Paul expected an imminent cosmic change, a new creation ushered in by the death and resurrection of the Messiah." Of course Nicodemus thought Jesus required people to reenter their mothers womb to be born again.

The apostle call upon gentiles "to abandon their "gods", to accept God’s Messiah, and to live" according to the way of Christ. Neither Karin nor James understand who these "gods" were or what the objection Paul had with them.

The objection was what Christ said about the covetous practices of their systems of Corban run through their own temples. Peter and Paul expressed their same concerns about those tables of welfare were a snare.

In the charitable network set up by Christ and the apostles there was "neither Jew nor Greek, neither slave nor free, nor male and female” (Galatians 3:28).

Karen mentioned "Contemporary interpreters" updating Paul with woke phrases like “neither gay nor straight,” “neither healthy nor disabled,” and “neither black nor white.” While these creative rewritings make Paul’s statement speak to new situations, they also highlight something about the original: These three pairs must have been as relevant in the first century, as the additional categories are today.

Karen and James imagine first-century ideal utopian community as one homogeneous group not divided into households and families. This the exact opposite of what Christ was to restore.

• "And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout [all] the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family." Leviticus 25:10

The family was sacred unit of God from the beginning and Jesus is clear that no man should divide or put asunder that family unite. Of course a hundred years of legal charity by men who exercise authority in systems of modern Corban has destroyed liberty and divided the family especially in the black community.

What you were not to do is make those rulers of nations your fathers and benefactors who takes from one group by force to buy the loyalty and allegiance of another or just bring them back into the bondage of Egypt. To covet the dainties and benefits of these rulers or agree to all have one purse goes against all the prophets and are the covetous practices Peter warned would make you merchandise and entangle the masses in the yoke of bondage, curse their children.

Karen and James clearly preach that "Such (first-century) communities could reject property, slavery, and marriage, since in the minds of first-century philosophers, doing away with possessions, slaves, and wives meant removing the major causes of social conflict."

This nonsense not only rejects the idea that true liberty which includes returning "every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family", but it also rejects the teaching of capitalism found in the story of the talents in Matthew 25.

Because these hypocrites refuse to see the nature of the kingdom of God preached by Christ which bound people through the righteous social bonds of love and charity their seared conscience and false ideologies has allowed them to covet their neighbors goods through men who exercise authority one over the other and has delivered them all back into the bondage of Egypt.

So while they are suggesting they oppose slavery they are the first to deliver their neighbor into bondage so they can collect benefits from their authoritarian benefactors at the pagan temples of public religion.