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.
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Glossary
Masoretic text (MAZ-a-RET-ik) (MT)-the traditional Hebrew Bible, as preserved and transmitted by Jewish scholars, known as masoretes (from the Hebrew word masorah, tradition), during the Middle Ages. Masoretes standardized traditions of punctuation, pronunciation, accentuation and divisions of the consonantal text of the medieval Hebrew Bible. The MT is today the accepted text of the Hebrew Bible.
Bible Lands
My View
Bible Books
The Jews in the Greek Age
Elias J. Bickerman (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988) 338 pp., $30.00
Bible Quiz
Verdict on Quizzes
The jury is in, and we have heard its unambiguous verdict: “Keep giving us the Bible Quiz in BR.”
One hundred-seven readers responded by sending in the answers to the December quiz (we withheld the answers in that issue) and by filling out the questionnaire. Here is a summary of the results.
First Glance
“If Pharaoh had recognized the power of women,” says Phyllis Trible, “he might well have reversed his decree and had daughters killed rather than sons.” However, as the Bible relates, thanks to the intervention of Moses’ sister Miriam, the future of one Hebrew baby is made secure.
Numbers 12:2–14, 20:1–2
Exodus 15:1–21
Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the Lord, saying.
“I will sing to the Lord, for he has
triumphed gloriously;
the horse and his rider he has
thrown into the sea.
The Lord is my strength and my song,
and he has become my salvation;
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