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.

Hebrew for Bible Readers

With little or no knowledge of Hebrew you can acquire a basic understanding of the language in which the Bible was originally written. This lesson will introduce you to the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Subsequent lessons will introduce you to other aspects of the language, with illustrations from the biblical text.

Bible Quiz

Perchance to Dream

1. Who dreamed first about cows and then about ears of grain?

2. Soon after Jesus’ birth, an angel appeared to Joseph in a dream. What did the angel tell him to do?

3. Name the military leader who was encouraged when he overheard an enemy soldier’s dream.

4. What group of travelers changed its itinerary after receiving instructions in a dream?

Biblical Law

The Torah—the five books of Moses—has rightly been called a book of Law. It is, however, idealized Law—what should be, or, more precisely, what God intended. In the second section of the Hebrew Bible—the Prophets—we learn about the reality.

Glossary

Byte: the smallest unit of information meaningful to a computer, usually equal to one character.

Hardware: a computer’s components: keyboard, monitor, memory chips, processor, power supply, printer, etc.

Hypertext: a computer technique that links a series of related texts and graphics and allows for swift movement between them.

Megabyte [Mb]: a measure of computer’s storage capacity; 1,048,576 bytes.

Computers and the Bible

Computers promise to revolutionize how we study the Bible. The last decade has witnessed the development of a variety of Bible-related programs—simple games for children, vocabulary drills for students of Hebrew and Greek, sermon preparation, sophisticated concordances, lectionary software, computer-assisted learning, church management software, multilingual Greek and Hebrew word processors and much more.

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