Bible Review

Terence C. Mitchell, “The Meaning of the Noun HTN in the Old Testament,” Vetus Testamentum 19 (1969), p. 105.

The Assyrian text reads, “Esarhaddon, great king, legitimate king, king of the world, king of Assyria, regent of Babylon, king of Sumer and Akkad, king of the four rims (of the earth), the true shepherd,” in James B. Pritchard, ed., Ancient Near Eastern Texts, 3rd ed. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1969), p. 289.

George W. Coats, “Moses in Midian,” Journal of Biblical Literature 92 (1973), p. 5; Rita J. Burns, “Zipporah,” The Anchor Bible Dictionary, 6 vols. (New York: Doubleday, 1992), vol. 6, p. 1105.

It is thus misleading to describe this view as “a resolute view of death as resurrection,” as does Jon Davies, in Death, Burial and Rebirth in the Religions of Antiquity (London: Routledge, 1999), p. 122.

Philo, On the Giants 14.

Passages such as Job 19:25–27, which in the King James Version seems to predict bodily resurrection more solidly than the Hebrew warrants, may have gained this meaning when read in the Septuagint.