Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780007220595
ISBN: 0007220596
Label: Harper Element
Manufacturer: Harper Element
Number Of Pages: 464
Publication Date: June 04, 2007
Publisher: Harper Element
Studio: Harper Element

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Rating: - The Jesus Dynasty - James D. Tabor
This was an excellent and highly informative read. Previous reviewers have pretty much covered the aspects and arguments of the book so I won't repeat what has already been said.

Along with E P Sanders' "The Historical Figure of Jesus", I consider Tabor has got the closest to the real Jesus, that is, the Jesus living in first century Galilee. I have no trouble viewing Jesus as both a "viceroy for God" (as Sanders asserts Jesus saw his role as) and a would-be king of an independent ... Read More

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Rating: - A Good Read for an Un-Decided
Although some of the findings here are also mentioned in the book; "Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code", this is an excellent read.

As mentioned in other reviews, Tabor clearly states when he's expressing views, and presents some compelling evidence.

Thoroughly recommended. Even if like me, you know very little about religion, or history for that matter.

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Rating: - Discounting God, not a good thing to do
If you liked The Da Vinci Code for its historical questioning of Jesus, His life and His linage, then you will probably like another "conspiracy" novel, The Jesus Dynasty, by James D. Tabor. With that said, ironically, Tabor himself blasts The Da Vinci Code for lack of evidence. At the outset Tabor lets us know that "The Jesus Dynasty has no connection to the recently popularized notions that Jesus married and fathered children through Mary Magdalene. While gripping fiction, this idea is long on ... Read More

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Rating: - A splendid book, but ....
I completely agree with all the other reviewers about what an informative, well written, thought-provoking book this is. I especially admire the way in which Professor Tabor is so scrupulous in attaching his own estimates of certainty to the statements which he makes: quite likely to be true ... possibly true ... mere conjecture. This is a refreshing contrast to the way in which so many other searchers after the 'historical Jesus' set about their work - orthodox believers and non-believers alike. ... Read More

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Rating: - Albert Schweitzer has a successor.
Having read Schweitzer's Quest for the Historical Jesus fifty years ago, I have been disappointed by almost everything I have read on the subject since then - until James Tabor came along. He seems at last to have taken the quest forward and found a credible Jesus, rooted in a family and a society, shaped by its beliefs and expectations, a real human being whose virtues are highlighted by his shortcomings. One of the most striking things is that Tabor makes it clear how much Jesus was an exile, ... Read More

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