James Tabor on the Real Mother of Jesus83%
12/16/2025, 7:27:07 PM
Topics: Mary Mother Of Jesus, Biblical Scholarship, James Tabor, The Lost Mary Book, Radio Interview
Keywords: Christmas
BS Summary: This article contains 12 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Confirmation Bias, and Out-Group Homogeneity Bias, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 41.7% saturation with 78 hits. Analysis detected 456 faulty-reasoning hits from 187 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 75% and a BS Rank of 83% (2,985 of 16,813 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 82.30% of the article peer group.
Jesus’s mother Mary likely lived for over 40 years, but many believers only think of her in two places, the Nativity and the Crucifixion.
The scholar James Tabor wants to change that.
Tabor’s new book is called “The Lost Mary: Rediscovering the Mother of Jesus.”
It’s the result of many years of work, trying to piece together who Mary really was.
Which isn’t easy, because as Tabor says, the actual Mary — the Jewish woman living in Galilee, the mother of eight children and central figure in the Jesus movement — has been largely erased by a religious idea of Mary, the eternal virgin of the utmost purity.
James Tabor joins us to reintroduce her.
He calls Mary the best known, and least known, woman in history.
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James Tabor | He’s a biblical scholar and recently retired Professor of Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
His new book is called “The Lost Mary: Rediscovering the Mother of Jesus.”
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Airdate: Wed., Dec. 17, 2025 at 9 a.m. and 7 p.m.
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