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How Bible Translations Differ

By Harvey Minkoff
066 To the uninitiated, the Bible is the Bible. To get one, you go to a bookstore and ask for a Bible. Readers of BAR know better. The English-speaking student of the Bible is blessed with dozens of translations in hundreds of editions. What...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1992

How to Buy a Bible

By Harvey Minkoff
040 To the uninitiated, the Bible is the Bible. To get one, you go to a bookstore and ask for a Bible. Readers of BR know better. The English-speaking student of the Bible is blessed with dozens of translations in hundreds of editions. What...
Bible Review, April 1992

Coarse Language In The Bible?

It’s culture shocking!
By Harvey Minkoff
022023 022 In an article I recently wrote in Bible Reviewa on the problems of Bible translating, I distinguished two styles of translation:...
Bible Review, April 1989

As Simple as ABC

What acrostics in the Bible can demonstrate
By Harvey Minkoff
027 Acrostics are alphabetical texts. Bible scholars disagree on their purpose. Consequently, translations differ. Despite differences in emphasis, Every translator acknowledges that Form and meaning are connected. Given the strictures of...
Bible Review, April 1997

Problems of Translations

Concern for the text versus concern for the reader
By Harvey Minkoff
034 The object of translating seems simple enough: to transfer meaning from one language to another. For public notices, traffic signs and other everyday needs, this is not difficult. But for literature—even such pseudo-literature as political...
Bible Review, August 1988

Jesus the Teetotaler

How Dr. Welch put the Lord on the wagon
By Michael M. HomanMark A. Gstohl
028 Jesus drank wine (Mark 14:23–25; Matthew 26:27–29; Luke 22:17–18). He even produced wine: When the alcohol supply dwindled at the wedding in Cana, a youthful Jesus turned six jars of water—holding 20 to 30 gallons each—into wine (John 2:1–11...
Bible Review, April 2002

The Man Who Wasn’t There

Textual mysteries created by Hebrew spelling
By Harvey Minkoff
026 Who was Masek? Where is Calneh? What do Adam, Satan, Malachi and Shiloh all have in common? What did Adam say when he saw Eve for the first time? The answers to this little quiz may be disconcerting to some students of the Bible. Masek,...
Bible Review, December 1990

Did the Ancient Israelites Drink Beer?

By Michael M. Homan
049 Ancient Israelites, with the possible exception of a few teetotaling Nazirites and their moms, proudly drank beer—and lots of it. Men, women and even children of all social classes drank it. Its consumption in ancient Israel was encouraged,...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 2010

Witnessing the Divine

The Magi in Art and Literature
By Robin M. Jensen
024 024 The magi lend an exotic and mysterious air to the Christmas story. The sweet domesticity of mother and child and the bucolic atmosphere of shepherds and stable are disturbed by the...
Bible Review, December 2001

Has Joshua’s Altar Been Found on Mt. Ebal?

By Adam Zertal
026 To appreciate fully the significance of the unique altar and cult center we are excavating on Mt. Ebal, one must first understand the archaeological context in which these discoveries were made. We found the altar and cult center, not in the...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 1985

What Are Pagan River Gods Doing in Scenes of Jesus’ Baptism?

By Robin M. Jensen
035 From its earliest days, one of the most popular scenes in Christian art has been John the Baptist baptizing Jesus in the Jordan River—and understandably so. Jesus’ baptism is a central moment in the Gospel narrative. The standard cast of...
Bible Review, February 1993

The Binding or Sacrifice of Isaac

How Jews and Christians see differently
By Robin M. Jensen
042 The Akedah (ah-kay-DAH), or binding of Isaac, is one of the most powerful narratives in the Hebrew Bible. For nearly 2,000 years, however, it has been read somewhat differently by Jews and Christians. It is even portrayed differently...
Bible Review, October 1993

Israel Enters Canaan—Following the Pottery Trail

By Adam Zertal
028 030 After 12 years of surveying and excavating in the land allotted in the Bible to the tribe of Manasseh, it is now possible to suggest new ideas on the emergence of Israel in Canaan,...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1991

Philistine Kin Found in Early Israel

By Adam Zertal
018 018 Almost from the beginning, the site of el-Ahwat was different—or, shall we say, strange. We first discovered it in 1992 during our archaeological survey of the hill country of Manasseh...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2002

Dining in Heaven

The earliest Christian visions of paradise
By Robin M. Jensen
032 Dusty skeletons in burial niches once lined the narrow passageways that lead into the Catacomb of Callistus, the earliest official cemetery of the Christian community in Rome. Deep underground, in the oldest part of the catacomb, the austere...
Bible Review, October 1998

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Bible Review, April 1996

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Bible Review, June 1990

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Reviewed by Michael M. HomanEric Wargo
Bible Review, December 2002

Glossary

Semite, Semitic, Semitic languages
By Harvey Minkoff
Bible Review, June 1989

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Archaeology Odyssey, January/February 2005

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