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Here's John Batchelor.

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I'm John Batchel.

Continuing with Professor James D. Tabor,

his new book, The Lost Mary,

rediscovering the Mother of Jesus, the

historical Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, a new historical investigation of the most

powerful woman in the world. We are now past the crucifixion, past the rising from

the tomb on the third day, past the ascension,

where does the energy, the momentum, the genius of founding the Christian church come from?

Where?

It's a place.

Mount Zion in Jerusalem.

The professor has been there many times, as pointed to the excavation in and around

where, and also remember the phrase, the upper room. Professor, take us to Mount Zion. It's just

before dawn in Jerusalem. I think you spent some quiet time there when you arrive for excavation.

What is that, what is that, where is that house

and what happens there after Jesus is dead? Good evening to you. And we're gone to heaven.

So you've got to imagine Jerusalem four square, north, southeast, and west. So this would be the

southwest area.

It's the highest hill in Jerusalem.

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