Noted biblical scholar to appear at Trilith

Noted Biblical Scholar Dr. James Tabor will appear at The Shipyard in the Town at Trilith in Fayetteville, Georgia, on Tuesday, November 4^th, at 6:30 p.m. The ticketed event, sponsored by Scholar & Scribe Bookshop and the Friends of the Peachtree City Library, is in support of Tabor’s latest book, The Lost Mary: Rediscovering the Mother of Jesus (Knopf, 2025). 

Ticketing is tiered with $15 for event only, $45 for event and pre-signed book, and $100 VIP ticket which includes priority seating, heavy hors d’oeuvres from Enzo, and a selection of beverages. VIP guests will also enjoy an exclusive meet and greet with Dr. Tabor and a personalized book signing. VIP spots are limited and available on a first-come basis. Tickets can be purchased at: https://scholarandscribe.com/event/author-event-dr-james-d-tabor/

Tabor describes The Lost Mary as a historical investigation into, “the most known, least known, woman in history.” Based on academic research and archaeological experience, his book recently received coverage from Candida Moss of National Geographic (“Who was the real Virgin Mary?” 09/25/25) and endorsements from fellow scholar and author Bart Ehrman as well as film director James Cameron who called Tabor’s book, “A great leap forward in understanding and contextualizing Mary’s life, after two millennia of her being dismissed and rewritten by patriarchal power structures.”    

While The Lost Mary covers sensitive issues such as Mary’s humanity and as well as the role she played in the first-century messianic movement, Tabor says he is a strong advocate of the position that, “good history never needs to be the enemy of devoted faith.”   

Dr. James Tabor retired (2022) as a full-Professor from the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he taught Christian origins and ancient Judaism, for 33 years, serving as Chair for a decade. He is currently a Distinguished Fellow in the Faculty of Humanities at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Tabor’s MA/Ph.D. is from the University of Chicago (1981). He previously taught at the University of Notre Dame and the College of William and Mary. Tabor has combined his work on ancient texts with extensive fieldwork in archaeology in Israel and Jordan. Since 2008 he has been co-director, with Shimon Gibson, of the acclaimed Mt. Zion excavation in Jerusalem. He was also involved in the 1993 Waco tragedy drawing upon his expertise in understanding ancient Biblical apocalyptic ideas and testifying before Congress in the 1995 Waco Hearings.

Over the past three decades Tabor has combined his work on ancient texts with field work in archaeology. He has worked at a number of sites in Israel and Jordan including Qumran, site of the Dead Sea Scrolls (1991, 1996), Wadi el-Yabis in Jordan (1992, 1996), Masada (1994), and Sepphoris (1996, 1999, 2000). In 2000 he teamed up with Dr. Shimon Gibson to excavate a newly discovered cave at Suba, west of Jerusalem that dates back to the Iron Age but was used for ritual rites in the early Roman period (2000-2006). Tabor and Gibson were also the principals involved in the discovery a 1st century Jewish burial shroud in a looted tomb at Akeldama. Their latest project is an ongoing excavation in Jerusalem on Mt Zion (Southwestern Hill) just outside Mt Zion Gate along the Turkish city wall (2006-2022).

Tabor is a popular public lecturer and writer and is often consulted by the national and international media (Time, Newsweek, USNews&World Report (cover story), NYTimes, LATimes, WashPost, Wall St. Journal, Harpers, Vanity Fair, AP, NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX, Der Spiegel, Profil, The London Times). He is a regular blogger at the Huffington Post  and does lectures, blog posts, and articles for the Biblical Archaeology Society. His work has been featured in dozens of TV documentaries (PBS Frontline, Discovery Channel, Nightline, 20/20, Learning Channel, History Channel, National Geographic, Smithsonian, BBC, Channel 4 UK, ZDF).