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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

The Great Gulf Between Scholars and the Pew

By Michael D. Coogan
044 Three great intellectual revolutions of the 19th and early 20th centuries have profoundly shaped and transformed the way we think of ourselves and our world. The first is Marxism and its derivative, socialism. The dissolution of the Soviet...
Bible Review, June 1994

Wish Upon a Stone

Discovering the idolatry of the even maskit
By Victor Hurowitz
Leviticus bans the Israelites from bowing upon a maskit stone. But what is a maskit? A recently deciphered Assyrian inscription may hold the key to identifying this mysterious prohibited object.
Bible Review, October 1999

Assessing David & Solomon

From the Hypothetical to the Improbable to the Absurd
By Michael D. Coogan
056 056 056 David and Solomon: In Search of the Bible’s Sacred Kings and the Roots of the Western Tradition...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 2006

Did King Solomon Violate the Second Commandment?

By Victor Hurowitz
Reader’s Letter Sparks Article When reading Victor Hurowitz’s “Inside Solomon’s Temple,” BR 10:02, a question suddenly occurred to me that I should have thought of years ago. In the shrine of the temple were “two huge, gold-plated, olive-wood cherubim,” writes...
Bible Review, October 1994

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

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

The Genesis of Genesis

Is the Creation Story Babylonian?
By Victor Hurowitz
037 On December 3, 1872, George Smith, a former bank-note engraver turned Assyriologist, stunned the Western world by announcing that he had discovered a Babylonian story of a great Flood resembling the well-known account of the Deluge in the...
Bible Review, Anniversary Issue

10 Great Finds

By Michael D. Coogan
036 When BAR’s editors invited me to prepare a list of significant finds for the 20th anniversary issue, I thought the task would be easy. I had already been developing the forthcoming BAS Slide Set on the Hebrew Bible and archaeology, so I...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 1995

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

Inside Solomon’s Temple

By Victor Hurowitz
024 “Then Solomon said … ‘I have built thee an exalted house, a place for thee to dwell in forever.’” (1 Kings 8:12–13) A vision of Isaiah, “I beheld my Lord seated on a high and lofty throne; and the skirts of his robe filled the Temple.” (...
Bible Review, April 1994

From Storm God to Abstract Being

How the deity became more distant from Exodus to Deuteronomy
By Victor Hurowitz
040 A spectacular sound and light show greeted the Israelites when the new nation encountered God for the first time at Mt. Sinai.1 The awesome display of divine presence and power so terrified the Children of Israel that they begged God not to...
Bible Review, October 1998

Archaeological Views: Question Authority!

By Michael D. Coogan
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2006

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

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