Bible Review

See Marc Brettler, “The Masoretes at Work,” sidebar to “The Leningrad Codex,” BR 13:04.

Carolyn Sanquist Mull and Kenneth Mull, “Biblical Leprosy: Is It Really?” BR 08:02.

YHWH, known as the tetragrammaton, is the unpronounceable name of the Israelite God, often vocalized “Yahweh.”

On Midian, see “Frank Moore Cross, An Interview, Part I: Israelite Origins,” BR 08:04; and Allen Kerkeslager, “Mt. Sinai—in Arabia?” BR 16:02.

See Phyllis Trible, “Bringing Miriam Out of the Shadows,” BR 05:01.

Two clay impressions of Baruch’s personal seal have been discovered. One belongs to the Israel Museum, in Jerusalem. The second, which is marked with what appears to be the scribe’s fingerprint, is in a private London collection. See “Fingerprint of Jeremiah’s Scribe,” BAR 22:02.

But see David Noel Freedman, “Caution: Bible Critic at Work,” BR 15:01.

Both versions are readily available in English translations. The longer Hebrew version, based on MT, is represented, with minor differences, in almost all modern Bible translations, starting with the 17th-century King James Version. The shorter version, which served as the model for the LXX, is found in modern translations of the Septuagint, such as Sir Launcelot C.L. Brenton, The Septuagint Version of the Old Testament with an English Translation (1851; Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1986).