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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

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

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

The Aleppo Codex

Ancient bible from the ashes
By Harvey Minkoff
022 023 The date was December 2, 1947, four days after the United Nations decision to partition Palestine into a Jewish state and Arab state. Arab mobs in Syria were once again looting, burning...
Bible Review, August 1991

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

Searching for the Better Text

How errors crept into the Bible and what can be done to correct them
By Harvey Minkoff
Ancient versions of the Bible are far from error-free. Happily, a better understanding of the Dead Sea Scrolls and of how manuscripts evolved has helped resolve some of the vexing textual problems.
Bible Review, August 1999

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

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

Prisca and Aquila

Traveling tentmakers and church builders
By Jerome Murphy-O’Connor
040 Aquila and his wife Priscilla are the most prominent couple involved in the first-century expansion of Christianity. They were Paul’s hosts at Corinth (Acts 18:2–3). Subsequently they directed house-churches at Ephesus (1 Corinthians 16:19)...
Bible Review, December 1992

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Bible Review, December 1992

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Bible Review, April 2000

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