# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-tabor
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:11:30.885Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-tabor"
name: "James Tabor"
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description: "James Daniel Tabor is an American Biblical scholar and 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 until 2022 and was chair from 2004 to 2014. He previously held positions at Ambassador College, the University of Notre Dame (1979–85), and the College of William and Mary (1985–89). Tabor is the founder and director of the Original Bible Project, a non-profit organization aimed to produce a re-ordered new translation of the Bible in English."
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gender: "male"
country:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1946-03-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump