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A Major New Introduction to the Bible

Norman Gottwald’s sociological-literary perspective
By P. Kyle McCarter Jr.
042 Norman Gottwald is one of North America’s leading biblical scholars, and he has just published a comprehensive introduction to the Hebrew Bible that will soon make his name known to a very wide audience. It is titled The Hebrew Bible—...
Bible Review, Summer 1986

Biblical Detective Work Identifies the Eunuch

By P. Kyle McCarter Jr.
046 In the preceding article Phil King and Larry Stager explain that the Hebrew term ‘ebed, literally “servant,” can designate anything from a slave or household servant to a high royal official, a servant of the king. The same is true in...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2002

A New Challenge to the Documentary Hypothesis

Have modern scholars failed to appreciate the overall structure in Genesis 1–11?
By P. Kyle McCarter Jr.
034 The documentary hypothesis states that the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Bible, is a compilation of several originally independent documents. Ancient editors or redactors collected these documents, which had been composed at various...
Bible Review, April 1988

Scribe Links Qumran and Masada

By Sidnie White Crawford
039 Recently Ada Yardeni, the foremost paleographer working in Israel today, made a startling claim: More than 50 Dead Sea Scroll manuscripts were copied by the same scribe.1 The 54 manuscripts came from six different caves: Qumran Caves 1, 2, 3...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 2012

Creating Woman

By Mary Joan Winn Leith
How was the first woman created in Genesis 2? Was she made from the man’s rib or, as recently suggested in BAR, from his os baculum (penis bone)?
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2016

Esther Not Judith

Why one made it and the other didn’t
By Sidnie White Crawford
022023 Brave, wise and stunningly beautiful, Esther and Judith have much in common. Both Jewish heroines live under foreign domination. Both risk their lives to save their people from...
Bible Review, February 2002

Pieces of the Puzzle

By P. Kyle McCarter Jr.
039 I sometimes think of Biblical studies as a vast jigsaw puzzle with most of the pieces missing. The book just published by Robert Deutsch and Michael Heltzer gives us 40 new pieces of that puzzle. In comparison with the slow pace at which...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1996

The Dead Sea Scrolls: How They Changed My Life

By Frank Moore CrossEmanuel TovSidnie White CrawfordMartin Abegg, Jr.
038 In this issue four prominent scholars tell BAR readers how the scrolls changed their lives. Harvard’s Frank Cross is the doyen of Dead Sea Scroll scholars; his views come in an interview with BAR editor Hershel Shanks. In the pages that...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2007

Has Every Book of the Bible Been Found Among the Dead Sea Scrolls?

By Sidnie White Crawford
028 029 It is a commonplace that every book of the Hebrew Bible except Esther has been found among the Dead Sea Scrolls. Actually, this is true only if you count Ezra-Nehemiah as one book—as,...
Bible Review, October 1996

The Fluid Bible

The blurry line between biblical and nonbiblical texts
By Sidnie White Crawford
We like to think of Holy Writ as unchanging, but the ancients didn’t. A study of the Dead Sea Scrolls reveals that texts could exist in different forms—even be consciously modified—without losing their sanctity.
Bible Review, June 1999

The Mysterious Copper Scroll

Clues to hidden temple treasure?
By P. Kyle McCarter Jr.
034 035 The Copper Scroll (3Q15 or 3QTreasure) is an anomaly in the inventory of scrolls from Qumran. It does not fit readily into any of the categories customarily included when the scrolls...
Bible Review, August 1992

Biblical Views: How a People Forms

By Mary Joan Winn Leith
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2006

Biblical Views: The Archaeology of Rahab

By Mary Joan Winn Leith
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 2007

Biblical Views: Who Did Cain Marry?

By Mary Joan Winn Leith
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 2013

Biblical Views: Of Philistines and Phalluses

By Mary Joan Winn Leith
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 2008

Biblical Views: The Bible Divide

By Mary Joan Winn Leith
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2012

The Rise of Ancient Israel

This work is composed of three outstanding lectures about the emergence of the ancient Israelites and their religion presented at a symposium held at the Smithsonian Institution in the fall of 1991. Professors William Dever, Baruch Halpern, and P. Kyle McCarter Jr., specialists in the fields of...

Divine Scents

God doesn’t just see and hear the Israelites, he can smell them too.
By Mary Joan Winn Leith
Bible Review, August 2003

Glossary: Standing Stones

By Neil Asher Silberman
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1989

Hitchhiking and the Bible

Reading the Bible is like traveling in a foreign land.
By Mary Joan Winn Leith
Bible Review, April 2003

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