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My View: On Becoming a Male Feminist Bible Scholar

By Marc Zvi Brettler
044 Had someone told me a decade ago that I would be teaching a course on “Women and the Bible,” I would have laughed. My academic training in Bible was quite traditional. The word “gender” never entered the classroom. Yet I have just completed...
Bible Review, April 1994

The Torah, The Prophets and The Writings—A New Jewish Translation

By Marc Zvi Brettler
063 The publication of the third section of the Hebrew Bible, The Writings (Kethubim), marks the completion of the new Jewish Publication Society Bible translation, abbreviated NJPS.a This is the first Bible translation executed by a panel...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1982

Profiles in Scholarly Courage

Early days of New Testament criticism
By Marcus J. Borg
More than two centuries ago, it occurred to a few European intellectuals that Jesus as a figure of history may have been quite different from Jesus as portrayed in the Gospels. With the awareness of that potential difference, the scholarly quest for the Jesus of history began. At that time and in...
Bible Review, October 1994

The World’s Oldest Poorbox

By Gabriel Barkay
048 I believe I may have discovered the world’s earliest poorbox—a tangible expression of Israel’s ancient concern for the needy among its people. On one of my frequent visits to Jerusalem’s Rockefeller Museum, I noticed an object that I had seen...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1992

Mounds of Mystery

Where the Kings of Judah Were Lamented
By Gabriel Barkay
032 At the beginning of the 20th century, when Jerusalem, still centered around its ancient core, was surrounded by agricultural land and orchards, 20 mysterious earth-and-stone mounds rose above the city’s western horizon, clearly visible from...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2003

Who Was Buried in the Tomb of Pharaoh’s Daughter?

By Gabriel Barkay
041 The Tomb of Pharaoh’s Daughter is one of Jerusalem’s most neglected sites, despite being one of the most complete, distinctive and magnificent First Temple period tombs in the city. Every year, hundreds of thousands of tourists visit the City...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 2013

Royal Palace, Royal Portrait?

The Tantalizing Possibilities of Ramat Raḥel
By Gabriel Barkay
034 The first Judahite royal palace ever exposed in an archaeological excavation is bei ng rediscovered. And with this renewed interest come echoes of what is probably one of the bitterest rivalries in the history of Israeli ar chaeology—between...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 2006

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

What’s an Egyptian Temple Doing in Jerusalem?

By Gabriel Barkay
048 049 Recent attacks on the historicity of the United Monarchy of David and Solomon (in the tenth century B.C.) have focused on the scant archaeological remains that have been discovered in...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2000

What Did Jesus Really Say?

By Marcus J. Borg
018 About 40 scholars, all specialists in the study of the historical Jesus, are seated around a table. They have just completed their discussion of a saying attributed to Jesus in the Gospels. The time has come for each to vote on a simple but...
Bible Review, October 1989

Burial Headrest as a Return to the Womb—A Reevaluation

By Gabriel Barkay
048 In “The Peculiar Headrests for the Dead in First Temple Times,” BAR 13:04, Professor Othmar Keel takes issue with an earlier BAR article in which Amos Kloner and I discussed these stone headrests carved on top of burial benches (“Jerusalem...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1988

The Riches of Ketef Hinnom

Jerusalem tomb yields Biblical text four centuries older than Dead Sea Scrolls
By Gabriel Barkay
023 I’ve lived in Jerusalem for more than 59 years. I sometimes feel I can put myself in the shoes (or minds) of ancient Jerusalemites. I think I can tell better than most where these ancient Jerusalemites would have located different facilities...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August September/October 2009

Jerusalem Tombs from the Days of the First Temple

A few hundred yards from Damascus Gate and over the wall from the Garden Tomb, magnificent burial cave lies beneath a Dominican monastery.
By Gabriel BarkayAmos Kloner
023 024 Damascus Gate, the most important entrance to Jerusalem’s Old City, fairly bustles with activity inside and out. Arab men in their robes and keffiyehs; Arab women in long embroidered...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1986

The Garden Tomb: Was Jesus Buried Here?

By Gabriel Barkay
040 First-time visitors to Jerusalem are often surprised to learn that two very different sites vie for recognition as the burial place of Jesus. One is, as its name implies, the Holy Sepulchre Church; it is located in a crowded area of the...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1986

Archaeological Views: The Necessary Partnership of the Bible and Archaeology

By Keith N. Schoville
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 2008

Biblical Views: Reaching Across the Great Divide

By Marc Zvi Brettler
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 2013

Biblical Views: Searching for a Woman’s Voice in Psalms

By Marc Zvi Brettler
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2010

Bible Books: The Bible as a Whole

Commentary on the Torah with a New English Translation
Richard Elliott Friedman
Reviewed by Marc Zvi Brettler
Bible Review, April 2002

Bible Books

Reviewed by Marc Zvi Brettler
Bible Review, August 1989

Bible Books

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

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