Bible Review

These examples are from Frank M. Cross, “The Development of the Jewish Scripts” in The Bible and the Ancient Near East, ed. G. Ernest Wright (Garden City: Doubleday, 1965).

For more on Borowski and his recently opened museum, see “Against All Odds: Elie Borowski Builds His Museum,” BAR 18:02.

A Roman knight, patron of the arts and friend and counselor of Augustus, Maecenas (d: 8 B.C.) had a reputation for luxurious habits and apparent indolence.

See my “On the Road and on the Sea with Saint Paul: Traveling Conditions in the First Century,” BR 01:02.

Enoch was the seventh descendant from Adam. Unlike other early descendants, the Bible does not say Enoch died; instead it says that after living 365 years, “he was no more, for God took him” (Genesis 5:24). In the Book of Jubilees, we learn that he was transported to paradise where he writes down the deeds of humans.

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

See Maureen A. Tilley, “Typological Numbers: Taking a Count of the Bible,” BR 08:03.

By “tradent” we mean the receiver, shaper and transmitter of tradition.

B.C.E. (Before the Common Era) is the alternate designation corresponding to B.C. often used in scholarly literature.

Koine Greek developed in late antiquity; it differs from the classical Greek of Plato.