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.
Insight
Which Says What? A Thumbnail Guide to the Two Editions of Jeremiah
First EditionVersions: The Septuagint (LXX), Dead Sea Scrolls 4QJerb and 4QJerd Length: shorter (3,000 fewer words than the Second Edition) Textual Variations: Does not include the passage “Thus far are the words of Jeremiah” |
Jeremiah Revisioned
Which Came First?
How the Book of Jeremiah Came to Be: The Biblical Version of Events
“Thus Far the Words of Jeremiah”
A brief aside in the prophet’s book opens up a world of multiple authors, editors and textual strands within the Bible and provides a portrait of both Jeremiah and his faithful scribe.
Wish Upon a Stone
Leviticus bans the Israelites from bowing upon a maskit stone. But what is a maskit? A recently deciphered Assyrian inscription may hold the key to identifying this mysterious prohibited object.
The Parallel Lives of Buddha and Jesus…in Deed
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The similarities in the life stories of Jesus and the Buddha are as compelling as the parallels in their thoughts. The resemblances in their birth accounts are especially remarkable: Both were born of chaste women amid blinding light from the heavens. There is even a Buddhist legend that the newborn child was wrapped in swaddling clothes. |
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Part II
II. If Jesus did not travel to India, if the Buddha’s teachings did not enter Palestine via the Silk Road, then how can their similarities be explained? In the following essay, Marcus Borg contemplates the possibility that they derive not from cultural borrowing but from shared experiences.
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