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Bible Review
Bible Review opens the realm of Biblical scholarship to a non-academic audience. World-renown scholars detail the latest in Biblical interpretation and why it matters. These important pieces are paired with stunning art, which makes the text come to life before your eyes. Anyone interested in the Bible should read this seminal magazine.
Books in Brief
A spate of recent books encourages Bible enthusiasts to read Scripture alongside the sacred texts of other world religions, to compare Jesus and Moses with eastern leaders, and to contrast the Judeo-Christian belief systems with, well, just about anything under the sun.—Ed.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
Bible Books: A Postmodern Pilate
Jots & Tittles
David Flusser (1917–2000)
After a period of declining health, biblical scholar David Flusser succumbed to heart failure in Jerusalem on September 15, his 83rd birthday.
King David Loves Bathsheba
In his final volume of poetry before he died last year, the Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai wrote:
Sperm Stealing
Putting Spin on Genesis
History with a Past
The accompanying article attempts to uncover the political agenda of the Torah. The narrative describes an earlier historical period, but imbedded into the narrative is the political message of an author from a later period. Obviously, the biblical material can be read without its later political agenda, simply as great literature or as insightful theology or as embellished history.
Reading David in Genesis
The Last Words of Avercius
Several sources have aided author Laurence Kant in piecing together and translating Avercius’s entire poem. The lines shown in red are copied from the extant remains of Avercius’s funerary monument; lines 1–3 and 20–22 match the few lines quoted a few years later in the funerary monument of a Christian man named Alexander. The bulk of the Greek poem is based heavily on versions recorded in medieval manuscripts of the bishop’s Life.
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