The Jesus Dynasty

James D. Tabor Paperback, $16.00 Simon & Schuster April 2006 400 pages James D. Tabor is a biblical scholar and archaeologist who spent decades studying the earliest extant documents concerning Jesus, his movement, and the beginnings of Christianity.  In this book, he uses those documents and his archaeological finds to construct the history of Jesus’s [...]

Where My Time Goes

I have long been in the habit of reading at least two books at a time.  Sometimes the reason is technical: I’m reading a large book that won’t fit in my purse, so I take a smaller one to read on the subway.  Sometimes the reason is geographical: The book I’ve been reading is in [...]