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Was The Gospel of Matthew Originally Written In Hebrew?

By George Howard
015 New evidence indicates that the Gospel of Matthew was an original Hebrew composition. Indeed, it is now possible to recover much of this original Hebrew composition from an extant manuscript. But before explaining how this can be done, let me...
Bible Review, Winter 1986

The Name of God in the New Testament

Did the earliest Gospels use Hebrew letters for the Tetragrammaton?
By George Howard
012 Many early copies of the New Testament abbreviate sacred words (nomina sacra). The earliest of these abbreviations stand for “God,” “Lord,” “Christ,” and “Jesus.” Abbreviations of these...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March 1978

“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

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

In the Beginning: Religion at the Dawn of Civilization

By Ben Witherington III
057 Some call it Turkey’s Stonehenge. In fact, the circles of massive stones standing high on a hill are more than 5,000 years older than Britain’s famous megaliths. From Göbekli Tepe (“Potbelly Hill”) in southeastern Turkey, you can see 50 or...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 2013

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

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 Assassination of Eglon

The first locked-room murder mystery
By Baruch Halpern
033 Ancient Israel’s authors wrote for Israelites, in Israelite language, with Israelite assumptions. That audiences on distant continents, millennia later, would be trying to piece together what they meant was a thought that never occurred to...
Bible Review, December 1988

Biblical Views: Spirited Discourse About God Language in the New Testament

By Ben Witherington III
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2012

Biblical Views: Text Archaeology: The Finding of Lightfoot’s Lost Manuscripts

By Ben Witherington III
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2014

Biblical Views: It’s About Time—Easter Time

By Ben Witherington III
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2016

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Bible Review, December 1990

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Bible Review, February 1988

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Bible Review, February 1995

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

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Reviewed by Jacob MilgromElizabeth JohnsonPhilip J. KingAlbert C. Winn
Bible Review, October 1994

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

How Not to Read the Bible

I am not for homosexuality, but I am for homosexuals. When the Bible is distorted to make God their enemy I must speak out to set the record straight.
By Jacob Milgrom
Bible Review, April 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

Seeing the Ethical Within the Ritual

Israel’s priests spoke in rituals, not in words. Their basic values are in the main ethical, and are ensconced in the rituals prescribed in the priestly texts of the Pentateuch.
By Jacob Milgrom
Bible Review, August 1992

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