Bible Review, June 1999
Special Section
The Israelites
The Bible’s portrayal of the Chosen People preserves the good and the bad.Read more ›
Features
Fishers of Fish, Fishers of Men
What we know of the first disciples from their profession
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.Read more ›
Geza The Jew
Cats can have nine lives, not people. But the case of Dead Sea Scroll specialist Geza Vermes will make you wonder. His remarkable life is now encapsulated in an autobiography, reviewed herein.Read more ›
The Fluid Bible
The blurry line between biblical and nonbiblical texts
We like to think of Holy Writ as unchanging, but the ancients didn’t. A study of the Dead Sea Scrolls reveals that texts could exist in different forms—even be consciously modified—without losing their sanctity.Read more ›
In Death as in Life
What the biblical portraits of Moses, Aaron and Miriam share
We expect to learn from the lives of great people, not from their deaths. But in the case of Miriam, Aaron and Moses, their deaths reflect their lives.Read more ›