Bible Review

I am preparing a critical commentary that will update many of the readings in my Ph.D. dissertation; see Laurence Kant, “The Interpretation of Religious Symbolism in the Graeco-Roman World: A Case Study of Early Christian Fish Symbolism” (Yale Univ., 1993), pp. 761–764. My work stands on the shoulders of giants such as Sir William Ramsay and A. Abel (“Étude sur l’inscription d’Abercius,” Byzantion 3 [1926], pp. 321–411).

The fragments were found 2.5 miles south-southwest of Koçhisar.

The other cities of the Pentapolis were Brouzos, Otrous, Eukarpia and Stektorion.

I am paraphrasing Aristotle, Poetics 51.b.6–8.

For a different reaction, see Hershel Shanks, “King David, Serial Murderer,” BR 16:06.

Steven L. McKenzie, King David: A Biography (New York and Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2000).

Yehuda Amichai, “David, King of Israel, Is Alive: Thou Art the Man,” Open Closed Open: Poems, trans. Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld (New York: Harcourt, 2000), p. 51.

Dalley, “Hebrew Tah\asï,” p. 14.