Bible Review

See Ze’ev Meshel, “Did Yahweh Have a Consort?” BAR 05:02.

See “‘David’ Found at Dan,” BAR 20:02.

The date of the Book of Jonah is disputed: Some claim that it is not the work of the eighth- century prophet mentioned in 2 Kings. Most would date the composition of the book to the sixth to fourth century B.C.E. Yet in the Bible’s own terms—presented in the Book of Jonah and in 2 Kings—Jonah is clearly an eighth-century B.C.E. prophet.

From Richard Elliott Friedman, The Hidden Book in the Bible (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1998), pp. 69, 287.

Frank Moore Cross is the Hancock Professor Emeritus of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages at Harvard University. See Frank Moore Cross, From Epic to Canon: History and Literature in Ancient Israel (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1998).

See Baruch Halpern, “Text and Artifact: Two Monologues?” in The Archaeology of Israel: Constructing the Past, Interpreting the Present, ed. Neil A. Silberman and D. Small (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997), pp. 311–341; and Halpern, “Erasing History: The Minimalist Assault on Ancient Israel,” BR 11:06.

See Patrick Miller and Jimmy Roberts, The Hand of the Lord: A Reassessment of the “Ark Narrative,” Johns Hopkins Near Eastern Studies (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1977).

See Leonhard Rost, The Succession of the Throne of David (Sheffield, UK: Almond Press, 1982).

See “Interview with David Noel Freedman,” BAR 06:03; “How the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament Differ: An Interview with David Noel Freedman, Part I,” BR 09:06; “The Undiscovered Symmetry of the Bible: An Interview with David Noel Freedman, Part II,” BR 10:01.

See Harold O. Forshey, “Court Narrative (2 Samuel 9–1—2 Kings 1) in Anchor Bible Dictionary, vol. 1, pp. 1172–1179. Friedman does not cite Rost.