Friday, March 7, 2025

Bible scholar: Jesus was vegetarian

What proof is there for this claim? Everyone knows J was a killer, or was he? (jesusveg.com)

Why I think Jesus was a vegetarian
(James Tabor) In this interview with Derek Lambert, host of ‪the Myth Vision Podcast‬, [Prof. Tabor] presents arguments, almost never explored (other than by Keith Akers and just a few others), that Jesus and his followers followed a vegetarian (vegan) diet and did not eat any living creature -- not even fish.

What's Lent got to do with it? We're Protestant
I realize there are a very few passages in the New Testament gospels -- three in total -- that imply otherwise, but they are late and do not stand any test of authenticity.
  • Q: What the difference between a vegetarian and a vegan? A: Neither word comes from the English word vegetable but rather from the Latin vegetus — "whole, sound, fresh, lively." A vegetarian eats no creatures but may eat creature products like dairy, whereas a vegan is purely plant-based, avoiding animal products and byproducts (many of which are hidden ingredients in common foods and products), often also avoiding leather and cruelty to animals of all kinds.
It is generally acknowledged that his cousin John the Baptizer -- as well as his [twin] brother James, who grew up in his household, never ate meat. But Jesus is made an exception by many.

In Eden, things were wonderful.
Jesus was in fact very much a "Back to Eden" figure who always emphasized, within the varieties of Judaism of his day, "from the beginning it has not been so."

Over the years I have noticed that people get very emotionally involved in dietary questions, every bit as much as the proverbial forbidden topics "religion and politics," as around the table discussions.

I hope folks [Christians] will objectively consider the undeniable evidence.
What kind of Bible "scholar" is this?
Do not make of thy body a blood-soaked "cemetery" by eating the corpses of the dead.
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About Dr. Tabor (jamestabor.com)
ABOUT: Dr. James Daniel Tabor, Ph.D. (jamestabor.com) is the founder and director of the Original Bible Project, a non-profit organization aiming to produce a new and reordered translation of the Bible in English. He is a retired professor of Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he taught from 1989–2022 and where he was chair of the department from 2004–2014. He previously held positions at Ambassador College (1968–1970, while a student at Pepperdine University), the University of Notre Dame (1979–1985), and the College of William and Mary (1985–1989). More
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