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Searching for the Better Text

How errors crept into the Bible and what can be done to correct them
By Harvey Minkoff
Ancient versions of the Bible are far from error-free. Happily, a better understanding of the Dead Sea Scrolls and of how manuscripts evolved has helped resolve some of the vexing textual problems.
Bible Review, August 1999

How to Buy a Bible

By Harvey Minkoff
040 To the uninitiated, the Bible is the Bible. To get one, you go to a bookstore and ask for a Bible. Readers of BR know better. The English-speaking student of the Bible is blessed with dozens of translations in hundreds of editions. What...
Bible Review, April 1992

Picturing Imageless Deities

Iconography in the Ancient Near East
By Victor Hurowitz
046 046 046 No Graven Image? Israelite Aniconism in Its Ancient Near Eastern Context Tryggve N.D....
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 1997

How Bible Translations Differ

By Harvey Minkoff
066 To the uninitiated, the Bible is the Bible. To get one, you go to a bookstore and ask for a Bible. Readers of BAR know better. The English-speaking student of the Bible is blessed with dozens of translations in hundreds of editions. What...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1992

The Man Who Wasn’t There

Textual mysteries created by Hebrew spelling
By Harvey Minkoff
026 Who was Masek? Where is Calneh? What do Adam, Satan, Malachi and Shiloh all have in common? What did Adam say when he saw Eve for the first time? The answers to this little quiz may be disconcerting to some students of the Bible. Masek,...
Bible Review, December 1990

Did King Solomon Violate the Second Commandment?

By Victor Hurowitz
Reader’s Letter Sparks Article When reading Victor Hurowitz’s “Inside Solomon’s Temple,” BR 10:02, a question suddenly occurred to me that I should have thought of years ago. In the shrine of the temple were “two huge, gold-plated, olive-wood cherubim,” writes...
Bible Review, October 1994

Solomon’s Temple in Context

By Victor Hurowitz
Although the Bible gives a detailed description of Solomon’s Temple, we have no physical remains of the building destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 B.C.E. Thanks to the recent excavation of several hitherto-unknown ancient Near Eastern temples, however, archaeologists are shedding new light on similarities and differences between these temples and King Solomon’s structure.
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2011

Inside Solomon’s Temple

By Victor Hurowitz
024 “Then Solomon said … ‘I have built thee an exalted house, a place for thee to dwell in forever.’” (1 Kings 8:12–13) A vision of Isaiah, “I beheld my Lord seated on a high and lofty throne; and the skirts of his robe filled the Temple.” (...
Bible Review, April 1994

As Simple as ABC

What acrostics in the Bible can demonstrate
By Harvey Minkoff
027 Acrostics are alphabetical texts. Bible scholars disagree on their purpose. Consequently, translations differ. Despite differences in emphasis, Every translator acknowledges that Form and meaning are connected. Given the strictures of...
Bible Review, April 1997

Coarse Language In The Bible?

It’s culture shocking!
By Harvey Minkoff
022023 022 In an article I recently wrote in Bible Reviewa on the problems of Bible translating, I distinguished two styles of translation:...
Bible Review, April 1989

P—Understanding the Priestly Source

By Victor Hurowitz
030 Reading an introduction to biblical criticism, a beginning student might well think he or she is peering into a bowl of alphabet soup—or perhaps perusing a catalogue of foundations and corporations. Letters are all over the place, especially...
Bible Review, June 1996

The Golden Calf

Made by Man...or God?
By Victor Hurowitz
028029 While Moses was up on Mt. Sinai receiving the first edition of the Ten Commandments, the people down below grew impatient and asked Aaron, Moses’ brother, to make them another god to...
Bible Review, April 2004

Wish Upon a Stone

Discovering the idolatry of the even maskit
By Victor Hurowitz
Leviticus bans the Israelites from bowing upon a maskit stone. But what is a maskit? A recently deciphered Assyrian inscription may hold the key to identifying this mysterious prohibited object.
Bible Review, October 1999

The Aleppo Codex

Ancient bible from the ashes
By Harvey Minkoff
022 023 The date was December 2, 1947, four days after the United Nations decision to partition Palestine into a Jewish state and Arab state. Arab mobs in Syria were once again looting, burning...
Bible Review, August 1991

From Storm God to Abstract Being

How the deity became more distant from Exodus to Deuteronomy
By Victor Hurowitz
040 A spectacular sound and light show greeted the Israelites when the new nation encountered God for the first time at Mt. Sinai.1 The awesome display of divine presence and power so terrified the Children of Israel that they begged God not to...
Bible Review, October 1998

Strata: Dan Urman, 1945–2004

Studied Synagogues and the Golan
By Victor Hurowitz
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 2004

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