Bible Review

For more on dating the year of Jesus’ birth, see Leonara Neville, “Fixing the Millennium,&rd; AO 03:01.

See the following BR articles: David R. Cartlidge, “The Christian Apocrypha: Preserved in Art,” BR 13:03; Ronald F. Hock, “The Favored One,” BR 17:03; and Charles W. Hedrick, “The 34 Gospels,” BR 18:03.

See Jonathan Klawans, “Was Jesus’ Last Supper a Seder?” BR 17:05.

See John Monson, “The New ‘Ain Dara Temple: Closest Solomonic Parallel,” BAR 26:03.

See Steven W. Holloway, “Mad to See the Monuments,” BR 17:06; and Bill T. Arnold and David B. Weisberg, “Babel und Bibel und Bias,” BR 18:01.

In the original Hebrew, Isaiah’s prophecy does not mention a “virgin.” But when the text was translated into Greek in the third century B.C., the Hebrew term almah (young woman) was replaced with Greek parthenos, which does mean virgin. See J. Edward Barrett, “Can Scholars Take the Virgin Birth Seriously?” BR 04:05.

See David R. Cartlidge, “The Christian Apocrypha: Preserved in Art,” BR 13:03; Cartlidge and J. Keith Elliott, Art and the Christian Apocrypha (New York: Routledge, 2001); and “The Favored One,” BR 17:03, by Ronald F. Hock with captions by David R. Cartlidge.

See Jerome Murphy-O’Connor, “Fishers of Fish, Fishers of Men,” BR 15:03.

See Hershel Shanks, “Escape and Rescue—An Oxford Don’s Peregrinations,” BR 10:03, and “Geza the Jew,” BR 15:03.