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Let this Cup Pass!
The Futile Quest for The Holy Grail
Most of us remember the dramatic ending of the last Indiana Jones movie, The Last Crusade, when good-guy Jones confronts a wicked quester for the Holy Grail in a room full of cups. A Knight Templar is guarding the vessels, some of...
Bible Review, August 2004
What Jesus Learned from the Essenes
The Blessing of Poverty the Bane of Divorce
Scholars have been cautious about drawing a direct line between Jesus and the Dead Sea Scroll sectarians. Indeed, perhaps the most criticized sentence in the vast literature about the Dead Sea Scrolls is one penned by the great American...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 2004
Reviews
The Romans: From Village to Empire: A History of Ancient Rome from Earliest Times to Constantine
Mary T. Boatwright, Daniel J. Gargola and Richard J.A. Talbert
Archaeology Odyssey, September/October 2004
Was Paul a Pro-Slavery Chauvinist?
Making sense of Paul’s seemingly mixed moral messages.
Bible Review, April 2004
It’s in the Details
A rich portrait of Simon the Cyrene can be pieced together from the few facts the Gospels provide
Bible Review, October 2004
Bible Books
The Five Books of Moses
Translation and Commentary by Robert Alter
Bible Review, October 2004
O Jerusalem
Jerusalem in Original Photographs 1850–1920
Shimon Gibson
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2004
Fruits of the Sea
The Ma‘agan Mikhael Ship: The Recovery of a 2,400-Year-Old Merchantman
Edited by Eve Black
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 2004
ReViews
Khirbet Qumrân et ‘Aïn Feshkha II
Jean-Baptiste Humbert and Jan Gunneweg, eds.
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 2004