Bible Review

Casemate walls consist of two parallel walls divided by transverse partitions at regular intervals; the resultant small chambers served for storage or were filled with rubble for strengthening the wall.

Offset-inset walls were massive city-walls consisting of salients and recesses; such walls were constructed in unaligned sections, or zigzag, as a way of minimizing damage to the walls under assault. See Neil Asher Silberman, “Glossary: A Question of Defense,” BAR 15:03.

B.C.E. is the scholarly, religiously neutral designation corresponding to B.C. It stands for “Before the Common Era.”

Although persons thought to be dead do occasionally revive, these cases are hardly comparable to the transcendent resurrection of Jesus.

A Greek word meaning “proclamation,” “kerygma” as used in modem New Testament scholarship generally refers to the content of the early Christian message. Kerygmatic formulas are the specific forms in which the kerygma was preached.

B.C.E. and C.E. are the scholarly, religiously neutral designations corresponding to B.C. and A.D. They stand for “Before the Common Era” and “Common Era.”

Two vertical lines is the standard geometric sign to denote parallel relationships.

B.C.E. is the scholarly, religiously neutral designation corresponding to B.C. It stands for “Before the Common Era.”

The New English Bible translators conjecture that the word ben (÷B), which means “son”, actually consists of an abbrevation for son (B) and the letter nun (÷), which is the Hebrew sign for 50.

The idiom ben shanah literally means “son of a year” Since an age older than one would be expressed as “son of X year” (using the singular), a strong case can be made that a number may have been omitted accidentally by a careless scribe.