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Beasts or Bugs?

Solving the Problem of the Fourth Plague
By Gary A. Rendsburg
019 Blood, frogs, lice, cattle disease, boils … Every spring at the Jewish holiday of Passover, the ten nasties that plagued Egypt are described in the Haggadah, the midrashic retelling of the Exodus from Egypt that is read aloud during the...
Bible Review, April 2003

A Rare Torah in the Library of Congress

By Gary A. Rendsburg
The oldest Torah manuscripts survive incomplete and barely legible. But not the scroll sheet acquired recently by the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Penned more than a millennium ago, this uniquely preserved parchment represents the oldest complete Torah scroll sheet totally legible by the naked eye. Explore the manuscript’s history and what makes it such a remarkable artifact.
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 2019

Unlikely Heroes

Women as Israel
By Gary A. Rendsburg
016 Open your Bible at random and you will notice something striking: Female characters abound. And it’s not simply a lot of women, it’s a lot of strong women. These women are the antithesis of what we might expect from a patriarchal society...
Bible Review, February 2003

Did the Author of Chronicles Also Write the Books of Ezra and Nehemiah?

Clutching at catchlines
By Hugh G. M. Williamson
056 The Book of Ezra/Nehemiah begins where the two books of Chronicles end—at the proclamation of Cyrus, king of Persia, allowing the Jews to return to their land after the Babylonian Exile. The conventional wisdom—for the past 150 years—has it...
Bible Review, Spring 1987

Reading David in Genesis

How we know the Torah was written in the tenth century B.C.E.
By Gary A. Rendsburg
020 For the last two hundred years, a central question in biblical studies has been the authorship of the Torah (or Pentateuch). The Age of Enlightenment led scholars to realize that the traditional Jewish and Christian belief in Moses’...
Bible Review, February 2001

Mendenhall Disavows Paternity

Says he didn’t father Gottwald’s Marxist theory
By Bernhard W. Anderson
046 Israel emerged as a people just before the period of the Judges, at the end of what archaeologists call the Late Bronze Age (1550–1200 B.C.) and the beginning of Iron Age I (1200–1000 B.C.)—the time when the Israelite tribes settled in the...
Bible Review, Summer 1986

Laments at the Destroyed Temple

Excavating the biblical text reveals ancient Jewish prayers
By Hugh G. M. Williamson
012 In 586 B.C.E.a Jerusalem lay devastated—the Temple in ruins, the king’s palace destroyed. The Babylonians, led by the fearsome Nebuchadnezzar, had deported Judah’s most prominent citizens to Babylonia. There they lived in exile for 50 years...
Bible Review, August 1990

The Bible Within the Bible

Some think that congregations should be more critical in selecting scripture readings. They insist upon creating a canon within the canon. But this bases the authority of the Bible not on the Bible itself, but on the Bible as read by a particular communit
By Bernhard W. Anderson
Bible Review, February 1997

When God Repents

God’s repentance is not only an expression of divine freedom, but also of divine compassion.
By Bernhard W. Anderson
Bible Review, June 1996

Israel and Revelation

The particularity of God’s revelation to the ethnic group Israel and the universality of the Christian community need not be in conflict.
By Bernhard W. Anderson
Bible Review, October 1997

A Teacher Like Elijah

A rare teacher, James Muilenburg was able to hold together the historical meaning, the literary form and the theological significance of biblical texts.
By Bernhard W. Anderson
Bible Review, February 1998

Taking the Lord’s Name in Vain—Which Name?

God’s name is wrongfully used whenever it is invoked to support social injustice or to serve national interests.
By Bernhard W. Anderson
Bible Review, June 1995

Miriam’s Challenge

Why was Miriam severely punished for challenging Moses’ authority while Aaron got off scot-free? There is no way to avoid the fact that the story presupposes a patriarchal society.
By Bernhard W. Anderson
Bible Review, June 1994

The Changing Scene in Biblical Theology

The Old Testament/Hebrew Bible has an independence that should not be compromised by either Christianizing or Judaizing it. Together, we need to discuss what it says about God and God’s relationship to human beings and the world.
By Bernhard W. Anderson
Bible Review, February 1994

The Role of the Messiah

The terms “Christ” and “Messiah” do not refer to a divine being but to the function an agent of God plays in bringing the kingdom that is to come on earth as in heaven.
By Bernhard W. Anderson
Bible Review, October 1995

The Bible: Word of God in Human Words

The Greek word synkatabasis refers to God’s “stooping” to meet human beings at their own level, just as a parent gets down on the floor and “lisps” to a child.
By Bernhard W. Anderson
Bible Review, June 1997

My View

The newness of the Old Testament
By Bernhard W. Anderson
Bible Review, Fall 1986

A Worldwide Pilgrimage to Jerusalem

Not to result in a religious conversion, but to hearing the “teaching” that goes forth from Zion in the name of the God who is worshipped there. The universal is to be found in the particular.
By Bernhard W. Anderson
Bible Review, June 1992

The Biblical Circle of Homosexual Prohibition

Is Heterosexuality—the biological norm for reproduction—also the ethical norm for human sexual relations? My proposal does not provide answers, but gives a basis for discussion in terms of biblical theology.
By Bernhard W. Anderson
Bible Review, June 1993

Promised Land

In the presence of native Americans who lost their land to invaders, I took a new interest in those forgotten peoples of the Bible who were dispossessed by the fulfillment of God’s promise to the Israelites to give them “a land flowing with milk and honey
By Bernhard W. Anderson
Bible Review, February 1993

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