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Why Doesn’t God Answer Prayers?

How the First Christians Dealt with Divine Silence
By Jerome Murphy-O’Connor
014 We are told that God hears our prayers. Then why doesn’t he listen? The most consoling words in the New Testament are, “Ask and you will receive. Seek and you will find. Knock and it will be opened to you” (Matthew 7:7 = Luke 11:9). The...
Bible Review, April 2004

The Dead Sea Scrolls: How They Changed My Life

By James H. CharlesworthJames C. VanderKam
060 35 Scrolls Still in Private Hands By James H. Charlesworth In 1954, at the age of 14, I was living with my family in Delray Beach, Florida. I would spend summers exploring the Everglades in my kayak, wondering wide-eyed at the alligators and...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 2007

Bah, Humbug!

A scholar rips Handel’s Messiah
By William H.C. Propp
043 Every December, concert halls and churches throughout the English-speaking world resound with the strains of George Frederic Handel‘s mighty Messiah. For centuries, music lovers have gone home humming the arias and choruses that Handel‘s...
Bible Review, December 2002

Bethlehem…Of Course

By Jerome Murphy-O’Connor
041 040 Steve Mason has probably made the best case possible that we should adopt an “agnostic” position regarding the birthplace of Jesus. But although Mason has examined the literary data...
Bible Review, February 2000

Exorcising Demons

By William H.C. Propp
014 Pazuzu...Lamashtu...Khatyu...Sheseru...Sasam...Lilith...Asmodeus...Beelzebub.... Names to conjure with. Literally. Years ago, when I was a student at Harvard, my teacher Frank Moore Cross raised a puzzling question: Why do demons—so prominent...
Bible Review, October 2004

Where Was James Buried?

Making sense of contradictory accounts
By Jerome Murphy-O’Connor
034 Controversy over the burial of James, the brother of Jesus, is nothing new. As early as the fourth century A.D., the location of James’s tomb was disputed. In the words of the church father Jerome, writing in 392 A.D.: “Some monks think James...
Bible Review, June 2003

Reinterpreting John

How the Dead Sea Scrolls have revolutionized our understanding of the Gospel of John
By James H. Charlesworth
019 Before the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, many scholars considered the Fourth Gospel—the Gospel According to John—to be a mid-to-late-second-century composition inspired by Greek philosophy. Today, 45 years later, a growing scholarly...
Bible Review, February 1993

Prisca and Aquila

Traveling tentmakers and church builders
By Jerome Murphy-O’Connor
040 Aquila and his wife Priscilla are the most prominent couple involved in the first-century expansion of Christianity. They were Paul’s hosts at Corinth (Acts 18:2–3). Subsequently they directed house-churches at Ephesus (1 Corinthians 16:19)...
Bible Review, December 1992

What Really Happened at the Transfiguration?

A Literary Critic Deepens Our Understanding
By Jerome Murphy-O’Connor
0008009 In the Gospel miracle stories, Jesus does wonderful things. But the divine power that he dispenses flows through his person while leaving him untouched. In the Transfiguration episode,...
Bible Review, Fall 1987

Triumph over Temptation

The historical core behind the testing of Jesus
By Jerome Murphy-O’Connor
Three gospels tell of the devil testing Jesus in the wilderness, an incident so remarkable as to seem almost certainly unreal. But is it? Our author suggests a historical core to the tale, a substratum reflecting struggles Jesus faced in his lifetime.
Bible Review, August 1999

Fishers of Fish, Fishers of Men

What we know of the first disciples from their profession
By Jerome Murphy-O’Connor
What sorts of men were Simon Peter, Andrew, James and John—crude, ignorant laborers or savvy and practical men of the world? The reliability of much of the Gospels rides on the answer.
Bible Review, June 1999

On the Road and on the Sea with St. Paul

Travelling conditions in the first century
By Jerome Murphy-O’Connor
038 In the Acts of the Apostles, we are told that Paul made three missionary journeys. In almost every introduction to the New Testament I have seen, the author discusses St. Paul’s journeys in terms of places and dates; his concern is to...
Bible Review, Summer 1985

What Really Happened at Gethsemane?

By Jerome Murphy-O’Connor
028 029 The scene has stimulated the imagination of great painters. The light of a full moon accentuates the shadows in a garden at the foot of the Mount of Olives. A lonely figure prays in...
Bible Review, April 1998

Hershel Shanks Interviews Scholars on the Scrolls

Three video interviews with prominent Dead Sea Scrolls scholars
Weston W. FieldsGeorge J. BrookeJames H. CharlesworthSidnie White CrawfordJoseph A. Fitzmyer

Jots & Tittles

By William H.C. ProppKarl P. Donfried
Bible Review, October 1998

ReViews: Rediscovering “Lost” Literature

Reviewed by James H. Charlesworth
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 2015

ReViews: Plan a Biblical Trip to Turkey or Jordan

Reviewed by Jerome Murphy-O’Connor
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2011

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Bible Review, October 1996

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Bible Review, April 2000

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