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Julian the Apostate and His Plan to Rebuild the Jerusalem Temple

By Jeffrey Brodd
Of the Roman emperors after Constantine, only Julian (331–363) rejected Christianity in favor of the pagan gods. A nephew of Constantine, the first Christian emperor, Julian incurred the...
Bible Review, October 1995

Martyrius: Lavish Living for Monks

By Yitzhak Magen
Four miles east of Jerusalem on a hilltop in the Judean desert on the road to Jericho sits Ma‘ale Adummim, a modern city of over 20 thousand people. In its midst is one of the largest, most important and most elaborate ancient monasteries in...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1995

A Gospel Among the Scrolls?

Scholar claims to have identified a fragment of Mark among the Dead Sea scrolls and the oldest fragment of Matthew
By Graham Stanton
On December 24, 1994, the Times of London ran a front-page story entitled “Oxford papyrus is ‘eyewitness record of the life of Christ.’” The article reported the claim that three papyrus fragments of Matthew’s Gospel in Magdalen...
Bible Review, December 1995

The Search for (the wrong) Jesus

By Luke T. Johnson
The first half of this decade has been a busy one for questers after the historical Jesus. The Jesus Seminar capped a decade of self-promotion with the publication of The Five Gospels: The Search for the Authentic Words of Jesus.1...
Bible Review, December 1995

Abraham & Yahweh

A case of male bonding
By Philip R. Davies
This article will offend some readers. It will jar many more. Why then are we publishing it? Because it makes us think. If we...
Bible Review, August 1995