Bible Review

C.E. (Common Era) and B.C.E. (Before the Common Era) are the scholarly alternate designations corresponding to A.D. and B.C.

“The Significance of the Scrolls,” BR 06:05.

The number 4 indicates that it was found in the fourth cave, Q refers to Qumran, and the letters MMT are an abbreviation for the Hebrew words Miqsat Ma‘ase Ha-torah (Some of the works of the Torah) which the editors, John Strugnell and Elisha Qimron, have suggested as a title for the work. These words appear near the end of the text.

B.C.E. (Before the Common Era) and C.E. (Common Era) are the scholarly alternate designations corresponding to B.C. and A.D.

Leviticus 19 is also based on the Decalogue. The chapter opens with a reference to the fifth, fourth, first and second commandments of the Decalogue: “You shall each fear his mother and his father, and keep my Sabbaths: I the Lord am your God. Do not turn to idols or make molten gods for yourselves: I the Lord am your God” (Leviticus 19:3–4).

See Lawrence E. Stager and Samuel R.Wolff, “Child Sacrifice at Carthage—Religious Rite or Population Control?” BAR 10:01.

B.C.E. (Before the common Era) and C.E. (Common Era) are the scholarly alternate designations corresponding to B.C. and A.D.

Here Romanos engages in typical word-play: from Hades’ point of view the Good Thief “stole” a place in paradise by acknowledging Christ on the cross.

Esther 8:7; Judges 4:21, 5:26–27; Joshua 10:26.

The important theologians and interpreters of Scripture in the early church (first-sixth centuries) are called church fathers (patres in Latin).