Bible Review

In the Joseph story (Genesis 39), we have a variation on this theme: Potiphar’s wife invites Joseph to “lie with me.” When he declines the invitation, she accuses him of attacking her and he is jailed.

See Carey Moore, “Eight Questions Most Frequently Asked About me Book of Esther,” BR 03:01.

Pseudepigrapha are Bible-like books often attributed to an ancient worthy. See Hershel Shanks, “Don’t Let Pseudepigrapha Scare You,” BR 03:02.

The Prayer of Azariah and me Song of the Three (between Daniel 3:23 and 3:24) and Daniel, Bel and the Snake.

See Michael Heltzer, “The Book of Esther: Where Does Fiction Stand and History End?” BR 08:01.

See James L. Crenshaw, “Ecclesiastes—Odd Book In,” and Daniel Pawley, “Ecclesiastes—Reaching Out to the 20th Century,” both in BR 06:05.

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

B.C.E. (Before the Common Era) and C.E. (Common Era), used by this author, are the alternate designations corresponding to B.C. and A.D. often used in scholarly literature.

The Revised Standard Version translation is used in this article, with the substitution of “Yahweh,” the Hebrew name of God, where the RSV uses “the Lord.”

Eldon Epp, “Should ‘The Book’ Be Panned?” BR 02:02.