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Of Hems and Tassels

Rank, authority and holiness were expressed in antiquity by fringes on garments
By Jacob Milgrom
061 In the book of Numbers, the Lord speaks to the Israelites through his servant Moses and commands them to wear tassels (or tsitsit) on the corners of their garments. The tassels must include a blue thread. The Biblical passage reads as...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 1983

How Jesus Saw Himself

By N. T. Wright
022 The quest for the historical Jesus began as a protest against traditional Christian dogma. But when the supposedly “neutral” historians peered into the well, all they saw was a featureless Jesus. Even when these scholars decided that...
Bible Review, June 1996

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

Challenge to Sun-Worship Interpretation of Temple Scroll’s Gilded Staircase

By Jacob Milgrom
070 In “The Case of the Gilded Staircase,” BAR 10:05, Professor Morton Smith attempts to prove that the Temple envisioned by the Essenes had a gilded staircase to reach the roof of the Temple where members of the Dead Sea sect worshipped the sun...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 1985

“You Shall Not Boil a Kid in Its Mother’s Milk”

An archaeological myth destroyed
By Jacob Milgrom
048 One of the oldest prohibitions in the entire Bible is the injunction against boiling a kid in the milk of its mother. It is repeated three times in identical words: “You shall not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.”a From these words, the...
Bible Review, Fall 1985

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 New Inheritance According to Paul

The Letter to the Romans re-enacts for all peoples the Israelite Exodus from Egypt to the Promised Land—from slavery to freedom.
By N. T. Wright
Bible Review, June 1998

An Amputated Bible, Peradventure?

The publishing house of Simon and Schuster has come up with a radical solution to the problem of "boring" passages in the Bible: Eliminate them.
By Jacob Milgrom
Bible Review, August 1994

The Most Basic Law in the Bible

It is easy to “love” the war-ravaged Bosnians, the AIDS-stricken Zaireans or the bereaved of Oklahoma City. But what of the strangers in our midst, the vagrants on our sidewalks?
By Jacob Milgrom
Bible Review, August 1995

“The Alien in Your Midst”

Every nation has its ger: the permanent resident. The Torah commands us, first, not to oppress the ger, and then to befriend and love him.
By Jacob Milgrom
Bible Review, December 1995

Food and Faith: The Ethical Foundations of the Biblical Diet Laws

The Bible has worked out a system of restrictions whereby humans may satiate their lust for animal flesh and not be dehumanized. These laws teach reverence for life.
By Jacob Milgrom
Bible Review, December 1992

Lex Talionis and the Rabbis

The Talmud reflects an uneasy rabbinic conscience toward the ancient law of talion, “eye for eye, tooth for tooth.”
By Jacob Milgrom
Bible Review, April 1996

A Husband’s Pride, A Mob’s Prejudice

The public ordeal undergone by a suspected adulteress in Numbers 5 was meant not to humiliate her but to protect her.
By Jacob Milgrom
Bible Review, August 1996

Jubilee: A Rallying Cry for Today’s Oppressed

The laws of the Jubilee year offer a blueprint for bridging the gap between the have and have-not nations.
By Jacob Milgrom
Bible Review, April 1997

Paul, Leader of a Jewish Revolution

Paul’s theology—grounded in Jewish thought and scriptures—propelled him to confront the powers of Rome and the pagan gods that stood behind them.
By N. T. Wright
Bible Review, December 2000

Good News for a Pagan World

Those who explain Paul as a Hellenizer are swimming against the tide. The arguments for his essential Jewishness are overwhelming.
By N. T. Wright
Bible Review, June 1997

Speaking of Good and Evil

How can we gain a biblical understanding of the social and political events of our day?
By N. T. Wright
Bible Review, December 2001

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