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Using Quintilian to Interpret Mark

By Helmut Koester
044 The passage from Mark which follows, has always been a puzzle: If your hand offends you, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life crippled, than with both hands to depart for hell, to the unquenchable fire. And if your foot offends...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 1980

The Holy Bible: A Buyer’s Guide

By Leonard J. Greenspoon
37 Walk through the religion section of any major bookstore, and you’ll see an amazing array of Bibles. The broad selection of translations (also called versions)—and the seemingly endless ways in which they are packaged—is without historical...
Bible Review, Fall 2005

What America Believes About the Bible

By Leonard J. Greenspoon
Late 20th century and (thus far) early 21st century Americans are surely the most prodded, probed and polled people in history. Pollsters contact, calculate and communicate Americans’ views on every topic imaginable (and some that, frankly, I couldn’t imagine), from political persuasions to sexual...
Bible Review, Winter 2005

How the Bible Became the Kynge’s Owne English

By Leonard J. Greenspoon
015 016 In the Beginning: The Story of the King James Bible and How It Changed a Nation, a Language, and a Culture Alister McGrath...
Bible Review, December 2003

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

The Search Begins: The Fathers of Historical Jesus Scholarship

By Marcus J. Borg
17 During the Enlightenment, the historian’s job changed dramatically. It was no longer enough simply to chronicle events reported in earlier, authoritative texts. Tradition and authority had become suspect, as investigation and reason became the...
Bible Review, Summer 2005

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

The Gospel of Thomas

Does it contain authentic sayings of Jesus?
By Helmut KoesterStephen J. Patterson
028 Scholars have long theorized that collections of Jesus’ sayings circulated in the decades following his death and that therefore they would be among the earliest witnesses to his message. Modern critical scholars have even been able to...
Bible Review, April 1990

Biblical Views: Text Archaeology: The Finding of Lightfoot’s Lost Manuscripts

By Ben Witherington III
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2014

Biblical Views: It’s About Time—Easter Time

By Ben Witherington III
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2016

Biblical Views: Sacred Texts in an Oral Culture: How Did They Function?

By Ben Witherington III
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 2007

The Bible in the News: Post-Babel Babble

By Leonard J. Greenspoon
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 2016

Strata: The Bible In the News: The Royal Treatment

By Leonard J. Greenspoon
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 2013

Strata: The Bible In the News: Who’s Afraid of Abishag?

By Leonard J. Greenspoon
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2011

What Gets Lost in Translation

Never forget that every translation is an interpretation.
By Ben Witherington III
Bible Review, April 2002

Bible Books

Reviewed by Marcus J. BorgMicheal FishbaneRonald S. HendelJames LimburgJane Schaberg
Bible Review, June 1992

Bible Books

Reviewed by James S. AckermanMarcus J. BorgGeorge Howard
Bible Review, December 1990

Faith and Scholarship

How can I be a Christian and say the things I say? … The truth of Christianity does not depend on the literal troth or historical infallibility of the Bible.
By Marcus J. Borg
Bible Review, August 1993

Paul, Christian Community and the Jews

As a 14-year-old boy in Nazi Germany, I had to choose a verse from the Bible for my confirmation. My choice was Romans 1:16.
By Helmut Koester
Bible Review, June 1996

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