Bible Review

For a popular treatment, see Frank M. Cross, Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1973), pp. 3–75.

For a discussion of the inscription, see Ruth Hestrin, “Understanding Asherah—Exploring Semitic Iconography,” BAR 17:05.

Lucian of Samosata, The Syrian Goddess 49, trans. Harold W. Attridge and Robert A. Oden, Society of Biblical Literature Texts and Translations, Graeco-Roman Religion Series (Missoula, MT: Scholars Press, 1976), pp. 52–55. Because it is composed in Ionic, rather than Lucian’s usual Attic Greek, the work is widely believed to be misattributed. Possibly it was written by Lycias of Sarasota, with whom Lucian is often confused.

Here I emend the text, which actually says “beginning of spring.”

A.G. Newell, “Too Many Modern Versions?” The Evangelical Quarterly 53 (1981), pp. 227–236.

Gordon D. Fee (The First Epistle to the Corinthians [Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1987], pp. 234–236) makes a strong case for punctuating this verse as a question.

Augustinus Merk’s Novum Testamentum Graece et Latine, 10th ed. (Rome: Sumptibus Pontificii Instituti Biblici, 1984), begins a new paragraph with these same words, as do most modern translations.

This translation appears in The Bible: An American Translation (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1935). The New Testament was translated by Edgar J. Goodspeed and the Old Testament by a group of scholars under the editorship of J.M. Powis Smith.

Several recent English-language commentaries support the translation “Junia.” See James D.G. Dunn, Romans 9–16 (Dallas: Word Books, 1988), pp. 894–895; John Ziesler, Paul’s Letter to the Romans (Philadelphia: Trinity Press International, 1989), p. 351; and Joseph Fitzmyer, Romans (New York: Doubleday, 1993), pp. 737–739. On women as apostles, see Roger L. Omanson, “The Role of Women in the New Testament Church,” Review and Expositor 83 (1986), p. 17.