Footnote 1 - How Pilate Became a Saint
See Robin M. Jensen, “The Binding of Isaac: How Jews and Christians See Differently,” BR 09:05.
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See Robin M. Jensen, “The Binding of Isaac: How Jews and Christians See Differently,” BR 09:05.
See Bezalel Porten, “Did the Ark Stop at Elephantine?” BAR 21:03.
On the taking of Ai, see Avraham Malamat, “How Inferior Israelite Forces Conquered Fortified Canaanite Cities,” BAR 08:02.
On Rahab, see Gary A. Rendsburg, “Unlikely Heroes: Women as Israel,” BR 19:01; and Frank Anthony Spina, “Reversal of Fortune,” BR 17:04.
God-Fearers” are gentiles who befriend Jews, or who observe Jewish ways, or who support the Jewish community, to a degree unusual for a gentile. The name derives from Acts 16:14 and 18:7 and other texts. See Louis H. Feldman, “The Omnipresence of the God-Fearers,” BAR 12:05.