Bible Review

On the Hyksos, see Aharon Kempinski, “Jacob in History,” BAR 14:01.

See Abraham Malamat, “‘Love Your Neighbor as Yourself’—What It Really Means,” BAR 16:04.

The Hebrew term for “mixed multitude,” ‘eµreb_ rab_ (Exodus 12:38, which derives from the root ‘RB, meaning “to mix, mingle,” and the term for “riffraff,” ’asap_suµp_, (Numbers 11:4), from the root ’asp_, “to gather or collect,” each appear only once in the Bible.

See Leonard J. Greenspoon, “Mission to Alexandria: Truth and Legend About the Creation of the Septuagint, the First Bible Translation,” BR 05:04.

See Ronald S. Hendel, “When the Sons of God Cavorted with the Daughters of Men,” BR 03:02.

See Matthew Black, “The Strange Visions of Enoch,” BR 03:02.

At some later point, a preface was added to the Greek text stating that the text had been revealed to Moses by God—thus the title for the text, which is otherwise unrelated to Moses and is not apocalyptic.

See Hershel Shanks, “Don’t Let Pseudepigrapha Scare You,” BR 03:02.

To put these statistics in context, there are more Episcopalians (my own denomination) in church on a Sunday in Nigeria than in the whole of Europe and North America combined.