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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

Caution: Bible Critic at Work

By David Noel Freedman
042 The task of the biblical text critic is to try to make sense of biblical verses. The text critic faces many kinds of problems. I would like to offer as illustrations two cases where I would recommend emending the text—actually changing the...
Bible Review, February 1999

My View: On Becoming a Male Feminist Bible Scholar

By Marc Zvi Brettler
044 Had someone told me a decade ago that I would be teaching a course on “Women and the Bible,” I would have laughed. My academic training in Bible was quite traditional. The word “gender” never entered the classroom. Yet I have just completed...
Bible Review, April 1994

Is It Possible to Understand the Book of Job?

A sensitive new reading of one of the most puzzling and powerful books in the Bible
By David Noel Freedman
026 026 The book of Job, one of the world’s greatest literary works, is better known for the problems it poses and the issues it spawns than for its answers and resolutions. While to the...
Bible Review, April 1988

The Torah, The Prophets and The Writings—A New Jewish Translation

By Marc Zvi Brettler
063 The publication of the third section of the Hebrew Bible, The Writings (Kethubim), marks the completion of the new Jewish Publication Society Bible translation, abbreviated NJPS.a This is the first Bible translation executed by a panel...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1982

But Did King David Invent Musical Instruments?

He composed Psalms and played the lyre…
By David Noel Freedman
048049 While the dividing line between poetry and prose in the Hebrew Bible is imprecise, and the two types tend to blend into each other, especially in the prophetic writings, certain features...
Bible Review, Summer 1985

“House of David” Is There!

By David Noel FreedmanJeffrey C. Geoghegan
078 BAR recently published an article by Philip R. Davies in which he claims that the now famous six letters of the Tel Dan inscription, bytdwd, do not mean “the House of David” after all.a The tone and content of the article are an...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1995

Don’t Rush to Judgment

Jehoash Inscription May Be Authentic
By David Noel Freedman
048 049 BAR’s reports on the so-called Jehoash inscription—which describes repairs to the Solomonic Temple by King Jehoash in the ninth century B.C.E.—are unhesitatingly condemnatory: It is a...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2004

What the Ass and the Ox Know—But the Scholars Don’t

By David Noel Freedman
042 The first chapter of Isaiah contains one of the most powerful prophetic passages in the entire Bible. The Lord, through the prophet, castigates his people Israel for rebelling. As a result, the country lies desolate, devoured by Israel’s...
Bible Review, Spring 1985

The Nine Commandments

The secret progress of Israel’s sins
By David Noel Freedman
028 Embedded in the sequence of books from Genesis through Kings is a hitherto unnoticed sequence of violations of the Ten Commandments, one by one, book by book, by the community of Israel, leading, in the end, to her Exile. I would like to...
Bible Review, December 1989

Who Asks (or Tells) God to Repent?

Other than Moses…
By David Noel Freedman
056 For several years now, I have been working jointly with Frank Andersen of the University of Queensland in Australia on a translation and commentary of Amos, the great eighth-century B.C. prophet. In the course of our detailed work, we have...
Bible Review, Winter 1985

Leading Scholar Calls for Prompt Publication

By David Noel Freedman
002 How quickly should ancient texts be published after they come into a scholar’s hands? Within one year—at most, says Professor David Noel Freedman in a forthcoming issue of the Biblical Archaeologist. This is a statement of...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March 1978

Did God Play a Dirty Trick on Jonah at the End?

By David Noel Freedman
026 027 To the modern critical scholar, the Book of Jonah may be a romance, a short fictional delight with a moral. But that’s not what the author—whoever he or she was—intended. According to...
Bible Review, August 1990

Biblical Views: Reaching Across the Great Divide

By Marc Zvi Brettler
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 2013

Biblical Views: Searching for a Woman’s Voice in Psalms

By Marc Zvi Brettler
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2010

Glossary

Canon—How books of the Hebrew Bible were chosen
By Marc Zvi Brettler
Bible Review, August 1989

Bible Books: The Bible as a Whole

Commentary on the Torah with a New English Translation
Richard Elliott Friedman
Reviewed by Marc Zvi Brettler
Bible Review, April 2002

Bible Books

Reviewed by James S. AckermanMarcus J. BorgGeorge Howard
Bible Review, December 1990

Bible Books

Reviewed by Marc Zvi Brettler
Bible Review, August 1989

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