James Tabor | How, When, and Why I Got "Hooked on Paul" For Life @JamesTaborVideos | Uploaded December 2023 | Updated October 2024, 16 hours ago.
A professional narration of my personal account of how I got "hooked on Paul" as a 18 year old student in a college Greek course. I rather like the professional voice...Haven't you ever read a book out loud to another person. Lots of people read together like this. It is great fun. Many of us have done it with our children. My wife and I have read all my books--and other favorites--that way. I like to listen...even though I wrote it! Just listen and enjoy!
Also, for all the Paul haters out there--and I know there are many of them, over the years I have found that whether one loves or "lumps" Paul--this book, Paul and Jesus--is liked by both. I think that means I "get Paul right." And some like what he was, and others don't. If I am right that he is the most influential person in history--then we need to "get him right," and then judge accordingly.
It was mainly to READ Paul that I ended up majoring in Greek! Imagine explaining the practical use of that to parents and friends! For more on my Quest and its results see:
James D. Tabor, Paul and Jesus (Simon & Schuster, 2010)
jamestabor.com/books
A personal note to my Youtube Community:
Since retiring and expanding my public connections via Youtube, on-line courses, interviews, and blog posts, I can’t always answer emails directly—I just get too many—right now 50-75 a day, with a backlog of many more. As you may know, many academics don’t respond to emails at all, but I do read them all.
These varied emails often have a wide variety of questions about my work and field of research. Often, what people write me about I have dealt with on my TaborBlog (jamestabor.com) or in my Youtube videos (@jamestaborvideos), or my on-line public courses—and of course in the many books I have published ( jamestabor.com/books) which can be searched or consulted. You will find these and lots of other links below.
In terms of more direct personal contact I have a Patreon account (patreon.com/jamesdtabor), that I use not so much for major fund raising, but as a way of identifying a group of really engaged folk with whom I can deal more directly. All levels of paid membership receive the same benefits—contributions go into a research fund—so you are advancing scholarship. I respond to messages and I also meet on Zoom with Q&A once a month with patrons—I call it my “Research Community.” I
In addition I meet once a month via Zoom with students signed up for latest on-line course, currently that is “Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls.”
I also have a monthly newsletter connected to my blog—you can go there and sign up, and also for notifications when I post something new. See jamestabor.com. Emails are secure and never shared. And you can subscribe to my Youtube channel and choose notifications for new posts—there is a lot coming on a wide variety of topics.
The links to all these methods of outreach and communication listed below.
On-line Courses:
"Jesus & Dead Sea Scrolls”
mvp-courses.com/tabor-dss
Creating Jesus: Gospel of Mark
mythvisionpodcast.com/firstgospel
__________________________________________
About Dr. James D. Tabor: jamestabor.com/about-dr-tabor
Tabor Books: jamestabor.com/books
Academic Blog: jamestabor.com
Personal Blog: genesia.org
Youtube: youtube.com/user/jamestaborvideos
Public Facebook: facebook.com/TaborPublic
Join Tabor Research Community: patreon.com/jamesdtabor
Academia:https://independent.academia.edu/JamesTabor8
Instagram: instagram.com/drjdtabor
Twitter: twitter.com/Jamesdtabor
LinkedIn:
linkedin.com/in/james-tabor-12119324
A professional narration of my personal account of how I got "hooked on Paul" as a 18 year old student in a college Greek course. I rather like the professional voice...Haven't you ever read a book out loud to another person. Lots of people read together like this. It is great fun. Many of us have done it with our children. My wife and I have read all my books--and other favorites--that way. I like to listen...even though I wrote it! Just listen and enjoy!
Also, for all the Paul haters out there--and I know there are many of them, over the years I have found that whether one loves or "lumps" Paul--this book, Paul and Jesus--is liked by both. I think that means I "get Paul right." And some like what he was, and others don't. If I am right that he is the most influential person in history--then we need to "get him right," and then judge accordingly.
It was mainly to READ Paul that I ended up majoring in Greek! Imagine explaining the practical use of that to parents and friends! For more on my Quest and its results see:
James D. Tabor, Paul and Jesus (Simon & Schuster, 2010)
jamestabor.com/books
A personal note to my Youtube Community:
Since retiring and expanding my public connections via Youtube, on-line courses, interviews, and blog posts, I can’t always answer emails directly—I just get too many—right now 50-75 a day, with a backlog of many more. As you may know, many academics don’t respond to emails at all, but I do read them all.
These varied emails often have a wide variety of questions about my work and field of research. Often, what people write me about I have dealt with on my TaborBlog (jamestabor.com) or in my Youtube videos (@jamestaborvideos), or my on-line public courses—and of course in the many books I have published ( jamestabor.com/books) which can be searched or consulted. You will find these and lots of other links below.
In terms of more direct personal contact I have a Patreon account (patreon.com/jamesdtabor), that I use not so much for major fund raising, but as a way of identifying a group of really engaged folk with whom I can deal more directly. All levels of paid membership receive the same benefits—contributions go into a research fund—so you are advancing scholarship. I respond to messages and I also meet on Zoom with Q&A once a month with patrons—I call it my “Research Community.” I
In addition I meet once a month via Zoom with students signed up for latest on-line course, currently that is “Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls.”
I also have a monthly newsletter connected to my blog—you can go there and sign up, and also for notifications when I post something new. See jamestabor.com. Emails are secure and never shared. And you can subscribe to my Youtube channel and choose notifications for new posts—there is a lot coming on a wide variety of topics.
The links to all these methods of outreach and communication listed below.
On-line Courses:
"Jesus & Dead Sea Scrolls”
mvp-courses.com/tabor-dss
Creating Jesus: Gospel of Mark
mythvisionpodcast.com/firstgospel
__________________________________________
About Dr. James D. Tabor: jamestabor.com/about-dr-tabor
Tabor Books: jamestabor.com/books
Academic Blog: jamestabor.com
Personal Blog: genesia.org
Youtube: youtube.com/user/jamestaborvideos
Public Facebook: facebook.com/TaborPublic
Join Tabor Research Community: patreon.com/jamesdtabor
Academia:https://independent.academia.edu/JamesTabor8
Instagram: instagram.com/drjdtabor
Twitter: twitter.com/Jamesdtabor
LinkedIn:
linkedin.com/in/james-tabor-12119324
