Bible Review

See review of The Greek Minor Prophets Scroll from Nahal Hever, by Emanuel Tov, Books in Brief, BAR 17:02.

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

A genizah is a storage site for ancient Jewish books that are no longer fit for use. The Cairo genizah contained the remains of several thousand biblical manuscripts. See Raphael Levy, “First ‘Dead Sea Scroll’ Found in Egypt Fifty Years Before Qumran Discoveries,” BAR 08:05.

See for example, Harvey Minkoff, “The Aleppo Codex—Ancient Bible from the Ashes,” BR 07:04.

For more on Old Testament manuscripts, see Marc Brettler, “Glossary: Old Testament Manuscripts—From Qumran to Leningrad,” BR 06:04.

Tanakh is an acronym made up of the initial letter of the three parts of the Hebrew Bible: Torah (the five books of Moses), Nevi‘im (prophets) and Ketuvim (writings).

The Mishnah is the earliest rabbinic classic, the core of the oral Torah, compiled about 200 C.E.

See Beth Nakhai, “What’s a Bamah? How Sacred Space Functioned in Ancient Israel,” BAR 20:03.

Many scholars believe the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, consists of four major strands composed by different authors. These authors are referred to as P (the priestly source), J (from the German term for the Yahwist), E (for Elohist) and D (for the Deuteronomist).

The actor playing Jonah spit at the end of the line.