Dead Messiahs Who Don't Return

This special lecture from 2009 is an expansion an academic paper I gave at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion in 1997. You can download the notes at my blog: https://jamestabor.com/dead-messiahs-...

This lecture was part a Biblical Archaeology Society seminar, publishers of the premiere archaeology magazine, Biblical Archaeology Review. It is used with permission.

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