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A Pre-Christian “Son of God” Among the Dead Sea Scrolls

By John J. Collins
034 035 The Dead Sea Scroll Son of God text from Qumran Cave 4 has attracted attention both in scholarly publications and in the press because it contains remarkable parallels to the...
Bible Review, June 1993

A Visit with M. Jozef T. Milik, Dead Sea Scroll Editor

By Joseph A. Fitzmyer
047 It had been almost 32 years since I last saw Jozef T. Milik. We were in Jerusalem, and we had both been working on the Dead Sea Scrolls. My work consisted of helping to prepare a concordance of the non-Biblical texts from Cave 4 by placing...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1990

The Salome No One Knows

Long-time Ruler of a Prosperous and Peaceful Judea Mentioned in Dead Sea Scrolls
By Kenneth Atkinson
061 When people hear the name Salome, they immediately think of the infamous dancing girl of the Gospels. Herod Antipas—the man Jesus denounced as a “fox”—had married his brother’s wife, Herodias. When John the Baptist denounced this illicit...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 2008

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

Another View: Do Josephus’s Writings Support the “Essene Hypothesis”?

By Kenneth AtkinsonHanan EshelJodi Magness
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2009

The Suffering Servant at Qumran

By John J. Collins
025 Much of the current interest in the Dead Sea Scrolls is stimulated by parallels, real or imagined, between passages in the scrolls and New Testament statements about Jesus. A new text has recently been published that, its editor claims,...
Bible Review, December 1993

Two Dogs, a Goat and a Partridge: An Archaeologist’s Best Friends

By Kenneth Atkinson
042 Modern archaeology has a long history of colorful characters and serendipitous discoveries. Occasionally, the two go hand in hand. Or should I say, paw in paw, for some of the greatest and luckiest finds have resulted from chance discoveries...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 1996

Did Jesus Speak Greek?

By Joseph A. Fitzmyer
058 That Jesus spoke Aramaic there is no doubt. By Jesus’ time numerous local dialects of Aramaic had emerged. Jesus, like other Palestinian Jews, would have spoken a local form of Middle Aramaic1 called Palestinian Aramaic. Palestinian Aramaic...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 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

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

The Oxyrhynchus Papyri

The Remarkable Discovery You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
By Stephen J. Patterson
Discovered in the Egyptian desert over a century ago, the Oxyrhynchus Papyri have provided invaluable insights into the life and times of an early Roman Christian community of the Nile Valley. As our author explains, these priceless documents, which include everything from little-known gospels to revealing personal letters, intimately portray the beliefs and daily lives of ordinary Romans and Christians, making them one of the greatest archaeological finds ever.
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2011

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

Now Playing: The Gospel of Thomas

By Stephen J. Patterson
038 One Sunday morning several years ago, a most astonishing thing happened to me. I was attending services at a local church in Claremont, California, where I was a graduate student working on a (then) relatively obscure text known as the Gospel...
Bible Review, December 2000

Hershel Shanks Interviews Scholars on the Scrolls

Three video interviews with prominent Dead Sea Scrolls scholars
Weston W. FieldsGeorge J. BrookeJames H. CharlesworthSidnie White CrawfordJoseph A. Fitzmyer

Father Joseph A. Fitzmyer

In this wide-ranging interview, Hershel Shanks sits down with 90-year-old priest and New Testament scholar Joseph Fitzmyer to reflect on Fitzmyer’s work with the Dead Sea Scrolls in Jerusalem in 1957 and 1958. The still-lively Fitzmyer recalls those years and more while relating anecdotes about the creation of a concordance from the scroll fragments and the publication team’s tentative transcriptions of the texts. It was these valuable transcriptions that eventually allowed the scrolls to be released to the public.

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Retrieving the World of Ancient Judaism

For the historian of religion, the closing of the canon was an unmitigated disaster, leading to the loss of a rich literature.
By John J. Collins
Bible Review, August 1996

Bible Books

Reviewed by Baruch HalpernJoseph GutmannHershel ShanksJoseph A. FitzmyerJack T. SandersHarold BrodskySteven FeldmanHugh G. M. Williamson
Bible Review, February 1991

Jewish Monotheism and Christian Theology

By John J. Collins
Aspects of Monotheism
1996

Bible Books

Reviewed by John J. CollinsGeorge HowardStuart S. Miller
Bible Review, February 1988

Books in Brief

Reviewed by James F. StrangeNeil Asher SilbermanRobert A. WildKeith N. SchovilleJohn J. Collins
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1986

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