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Ancient Records and the Exodus Plagues

By Robert R. Stieglitz
046 047 Twentieth-century Americans find it difficult to comprehend the notion of plagues. Plagues border on the realm of the unreal; they are the stuff of tall tales, myths and legends. But in...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1987

Radical Exodus Redating Fatally Flawed

By Baruch Halpern
056 In the September/October BAR, John Bimson and David Livingston wrote an article entitled “Redating the Exodus,” BAR 13:05, in which they radically revise a number of generally accepted dates and conclude that the Exodus occurred in the latter...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1987

The Lowdown on the Riffraff

Do these obscure figures preserve a memory of a historical Exodus?
By Robert R. Stieglitz
When the Israelites fled Egypt, they were accompanied by a slew of dubious characters—an odd detail that may lend credibility to the biblical account.
Bible Review, August 1999

Eyewitness Testimony

Parts of Exodus Written Within Living Memory of the Event
By Baruch Halpern
050 How old are the Bible’s narratives of the Exodus from Egypt? Can we really date the texts that preserve those narratives? And if so, what is the oldest Biblical text that discusses the Exodus? To start with the answer, we can date...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 2003

Happy Birthday, BR!

By Michael M. Homan
012013 If Bible Review were a male Israelite, today it would leave adolescence behind and officially become an adult. That’s because with this issue, Bible Review turns 20—a...
Bible Review, Anniversary Issue

The Divine Warrior in His Tent

A military model for Yahweh’s tabernacle
By Michael M. Homan
022 022 022 Yahweh could have asked Moses for just about anything—a temple, a palace, even a pyramid. Instead, Yahweh requests that Moses...
Bible Review, December 2000

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

The Documentary Hypothesis in Trouble

By Joseph Blenkinsopp
022023 The Pentateuch, or the five books of Moses—Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy—how was it formed? What is the history of its composition? The traditional view of both...
Bible Review, Winter 1985

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

The Contemporary English Version: inaccurate translation tries to soften Anti-Judaic sentiment

By Joseph Blenkinsopp
042 Many BR readers will by now have a copy of the Contemporary English Version of the Bible (CEV), published last year by the American Bible Society. They may even be using it for teaching or preaching. It is being actively sponsored by...
Bible Review, October 1996

“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

Jesus the Teetotaler

How Dr. Welch put the Lord on the wagon
By Michael M. HomanMark A. Gstohl
028 Jesus drank wine (Mark 14:23–25; Matthew 26:27–29; Luke 22:17–18). He even produced wine: When the alcohol supply dwindled at the wedding in Cana, a youthful Jesus turned six jars of water—holding 20 to 30 gallons each—into wine (John 2:1–11...
Bible Review, April 2002

Erasing History

The minimalist assault on ancient Israel
By Baruch Halpern
026 The recent discovery at Tel Dan of a ninth-century B.C.E. inscription—the first extra-biblical reference to the House of David—is causing extraordinary contortions among scholars who have maintained that the Bible’s history of the early...
Bible Review, December 1995

The Sea Peoples and Their Contributions to Civilization

By Avner RabanRobert R. Stieglitz
035 The Sea Peoples are unappreciated. This is in part because the most famous of them, the Philistines, received such bad press in the Bible. But the other Sea Peoples—among them the Shardana, Sikila, Lukka and the Danuna—have also been treated...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1991

The Rise of Ancient Israel

This work is composed of three outstanding lectures about the emergence of the ancient Israelites and their religion presented at a symposium held at the Smithsonian Institution in the fall of 1991. Professors William Dever, Baruch Halpern, and P. Kyle McCarter Jr., specialists in the fields of...

The Exodus from Egypt: Myth or Reality?

By Baruch Halpern
The Rise of Ancient Israel
1991

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

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