Bible Review

Nag Hammadi is the site of the chance discovery in 1945 of a hoard of early Gnostic Christian papyri, including the Gospel of Thomas, known as the Nag Hammadi codices. See Helmut Koester and Stephen J. Patterson, “The Gospel of Thomas—Does It Contain Authentic Sayings of Jesus?” BR 06:02.

The Masoretic text of the Hebrew Bible is the standard rabbinic textus receptus.

See the following articles in Biblical Archaeology Review: Lawrence E. Stager, “The Song of Deborah—Why Some Tribes Answered the Call and Others Did Not,” BAR 15:01; and Philip King and Stager, “Of Fathers, Kings and the Deity,” BAR 28:02.

Ariel and Chana Bloch, The Song of Songs: A New Translation (New York: Random House, 1995; repr. Berkeley, CA: Univ. of California Press, 2000). All translations used here, unless otherwise noted, are from this translation, ©2002 The Regents of the University of California.

For other Pauline passages misinterpreted in the Left Behind series, see N.T. Wright, “Farewell to the Rapture,” BR 17:04.

But see David Cartlidge, “The Christian Apocrypha: Preserved in Art,” BR 13:03.

See Ronald Hock, “The Favored One: How Mary Became the Mother of God,” BR 17:03.

See Robert J. Miller, “The Gospels that Didn’t Make the Cut,” BR 09:04.

See Roy W. Hoover, “How the Books of the New Testament Were Chosen,” BR 09:02; and George Howard, “Canon: Choosing the Books of the New Testament,” BR 05:05.