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Bible Review: 2005

February 2005 Happy Birthday, BR! Sister Wendy’s Top Twenty Biblical Paintings The Genesis of Genesis Twenty Years That Have Passed	Spring 2005 Joanna The Exodus of Abraham Saints Men Did Jesus Marry? When Forever Isn't Forever	Summer 2005 Jesus Lives! The Search Begins: The Fathers of Historical Jesus Scholarship A Woman Equal to Paul Of Time and Immortality Dating Creation
Fall 2005 Jude Taking the Biblical Text Apart The Fall and Rise of Simon Magus The Holy Bible: A Buyer’s Guide Text and Tradition	Winter 2005 Mary, Simeon or Anna Did Jesus Get Angry or Agonize? What America Believes About the Bible Song of Songs: Not Just a Dirty Book Genesis and the Cathedrals

Bible Review: 2004

February 2004 Peter: How a Flawed Disciple Became Jesus’ Successor on Earth Peter in Rome How Hosea Transformed the Lord of the Realm into a Temperamental Spouse What’s in a Name? The Ten Commandments and the Courthouse	April 2004 Why Doesn’t God Answer Prayers? Caleb the Dog The Golden Calf Made by Man...or God? Is Psalm 45 an Erotic Poem? A God of Love and Justice Was Paul a Pro-Slavery Chauvinist?	June 2004 Pilate on the Dock For the Defense For the Prosecution Paul L. Maier Responds... Samson et Dalila Dealing with the Devil Acting Like Apes Eve Ate the Apple
August 2004 Let this Cup Pass! From Symbol to Relic Circumcision Dinner with Jesus & Paul First Lady Jezebel	October 2004 Exorcising Demons John What's a Pleasing Sacrifice? Amending Marriage It's in the Details	December 2004 Before Mary Thecla Zephaniah From Seraph to Satan The Nativity According to Luke

Bible Review: 2003

February 2003 Unlikely Heroes - Women in Israel Jews and Christians The Search for Biblical Blue Moses - From Vigilante to Lawgiver What Difference Does a Century Make? Gods and the One God	April 2003 What Jesus Really Meant by “Render Unto Caesar” Beasts or Bugs? Parallel Paths to Heaven Enoch’s Vision of the Next World That’s No Gospel, It’s Enoch! Hitchhiking and the Bible Asking the Right Question	June 2003 James, the Brother of Jesus Bringing James Out of the Shadows Where Was James Buried? Moses' Egyptian Name The Harrowing of Hell The Search for Noah's Flood
August 2003 David and Joab The True Cross The Chapel of the True Cross Did Ancient Jews Missionize Why God Has So Many Names Divine Scents Vision Quest	October 2003 Spy Tales Photographing Jesus Cyrus the Messiah Who Wrote Second Isaiah? Was There a Temple in Jerusalem?	December 2003 How the Bible Became the Kynge’s Owne English How Pilate Became a Saint The Dark Side of Pilate Mel Gibson’s Passion Play Should Cheeseburgers Be Kosher? Seeing God From Hesed to Agape

Bible Review: 2002

February 2002 The Un-Gospel of John Esther Not Judith Babel und Bibel und Bias The Birth of the Canon	April 2002 Abraham’s Sons Sharing in the Divine Jesus the Teetotaler Worshiping Idols Restored Back to the Garden What Gets Lost in Translation	June 2002 Ways of Knowing God The 34 Gospels Can God Read Minds? When Gods Go Hungry It Ain't Necessarily So Paul at the Races
August 2002 Seven Luminous Days The Song of Songs How an American Coal Miner Acquired Sacred Biblical Papyri Exodus What the Left Behind Series Left Out From Storm to Scroll	October 2002 David’s Threat to Nabal David - A model medieval king Unwrapping the Torah Christian and Jewish Views of the Holy Land The Two Faces of Jesus That Old Time Religion Dining with the Divine	December 2002 Agent of the Lord, Warrior for the People How Can This Be? Lions, Lilies and Mousetraps Bah, Humbug! How December 25 Became Christmas Rhetorically Writing Alphabet and Internet

Bible Review: 2001

February 2001 Earliest Christian Inscription Reading David in Genesis Sperm Stealing King David Loves Bathsheba	April 2001 Who Wrote the Gospel of Luke? Searching for Saul The Un-Moralized Bible The Bible Through a Poet’s Prism The Shape of Justification	June 2001 The Favored One Genesis as Rashomon Why Deborah’s Different It’s Elementary Of Doubt, Gadflies and Minimalists
August 2001 To Be Continued… Reversal of Fortune Whose Earrings Did Jacob Bury? Adam Meets the Evil Archon Farewell to the Rapture	October 2001 Lilith The Seductress of Qumran Was Jesus’ Last Supper a Seder? What’s in a Name? The Empre of David—or Not?	December 2001 The Magi and the Star Witnessing the Divine Was the Early Church Jewish? Mad to See the Monuments Speaking of Good and Evil

Bible Review: 2000

February 2000 When Was Jesus Born? O Little Town of...Nazareth? Bethlehem... Of Course Response and Surresponse Van Gogh's Bible Did Ecclesiastes Copy Gilgamesh? Teaching Creation in Kansas Imagining a New Millennium	April 2000 The Man Moses All in the Family Mt. Sinai—in Arabia? Casting Genesis Judgement and Mercy	June 2000 Korah Why Did God Choose Abraham? Why Megiddo? The Book of Jeremiah: A Work in Progress Harry Potter and the Bible: Should they both be banned? Where Is Mount Sinai?
August 2000 The Most Original Bible Text: How to Get There Combine the Best from Each Tradition Keep Each Tradition Separate Moses - The Private Man Behind the Public Leader Extra! Extra! Philistines in the Newsroom How Pharaoh Learned His Lesson in Nineveh Discovering Women in Scripture	October 2000 How Bad Was Jezebel? The Bad Boy of Historical Jesus Studies And the Winner Is…BR’s Short Story Contest Results Are In Iconoclasm When the Bible Enters the Fray Of Sacred Leopards and Abominable Pigs	December 2000 Mary, Martha and the Kitchen Maid The Desert Tabernacle The Divine Warrior in His Tent King David: Serial Murderer Now Playing: The Gospel of Thomas Paul, Leader of a Jewish Revolution

Bible Review: 1999

February 1999 Esther and Samson Proclaim Liberty Throughout the Land Lights, Camera, Plagues! Caution: Bible Critic At Work Toxic Knowledge	April 1999 Eldad and Medad Has Richard Friedman Really Discovered a Long-Hidden Book in the Bible? Friedman’s Thesis: An Overview Bible Critics Respond: An Interview Parallel Lives Who Is the Teacher of Righteousness? Laying Down the Law Our Bodies, Our Bibles Paul’s Challenge to Caesar	June 1999 The Israelites Fishers of Fish, Fishers of Men Geza the Jew The Fluid Bible In Death as in Life Milk and Honey What Price the Uniqueness of Jesus?
August 1999 Did Eve Fall or Was She Pushed? Searching for the Better Text The Lowdown on the Riffraff Triumph Over Temptation Why Is Esther Missing from Qumran? The Great Debate Going Around in Circles	October 1999 Seth East Meets West: The Uncanny Parallels in the Lives of Buddha and Jesus Wish Upon a Stone “Thus Far the Words of Jeremiah” The Ten Commandments on the Wall The God of Real Life	December1999 Why 2K? Can We Find God Without History? And the Band Played On…But What Did They Play On? Did Moses Enter the Promised Land? A Return to Origins (Again)

Bible Review: 1998

February 1998 Cain & Abel Clothes Maketh the Man Jesus in the Movies The Mystery of Paul What We Miss A Teacher Like Elijah Upstaging the Emperor	April 1998 Esau What Really Happened at Gethsemane? “More Than Any Man Has Ever Done” Dreamer, Schemer, Slave and Prince Human Wisdom Is Divine The Law in the Gospel	June 1998 Jethro Spinning the Bible The Jewish Roots of the Transfiguration Why Moses Could Not Enter the Promised Land The New Inheritance According to Paul Creation Myths Breed Violence
August 1998 Aaron From the Land of the Bow Men Are from Judah, Women Are from Bethlehem God’s Vineyard Was Samuel a Nazarite? Counting Time Restoration Project: The Hebrew Bible	October 1998 Jacob’s Wrestling Match The Lost Books of the Bible Dining in Heaven From Storm God to Abstract Being Paul and Qumran We’ve Come a Long Way, Baby (But Still Have a Ways to Go)	December1998 Joshua Fallen Star Paul’s Contradictions PUNCTUATIONINTHENEWTESTAMENT Santa and His Asherah Feeling Love and Doing Love Getting Back to the Garden of Eden

Bible Review: 1997

February 1997 The Ancient Library of Alexandria Jesus’ Triumphal March to Crucifixion Jefferson’s Bible Who the Devil Is Beelzebul? Rediscovering the Message of Lent The Bible Within the Bible	April 1997 Battling Over the Jesus Seminar The the Ugly Attacks? Buyer Beware! The Gospel Truth? As Simple as ABC Understanding Matthew’s Vitriol A Case of Mistaken Identity Jubilee: A Rallying Cry for Today’s Oppressed Taking Law Seriously	June 1997 The Christian Apocrypha The Biblical Minimalists Gospels in the Classroom Son of God The Bible: Word of God in Human Words Good News for a Pagan World
August 1997 The Bible Code—Cracked and Crumbling The Secret Code Hoax Snake Oil for Sale Wisdom Literature Makes a Comeback The Leningrad Codex Did Paul Fall Off a Horse? Knocking on Heaven’s Gate The Blood Taboo	October 1997 What Really Happened at Mount Sinai? The Jewish Roots of Matthew’s Vitriol A Biblical Spice Rack That Ol’ Time Religion The Two Faces of Faithfulness Israel and Revelation	December 1997 The Serpent Where Was the Capitol in Roman Jerusalem? Getting Personal Forgotten Heroines of the Exodus The Uses and Abuses of Heresy The Plain Sense of Scripture

Bible Review: 1996

February 1996 Why Jesus Went Back to Galilee Giving Eve’s Daughters Their Due Deuteronomy’s Theological Revolution The Son of David and King of the Jews The Persistence of Chaos in God’s Creation	April 1996 Did the Synagogue Replace the Temple? Who Returned First—Ezra or Nehemiah? Why Christians Must Search for the Historical Jesus Lex Talionis and the Rabbis Glimpses of Mary	June 1996 How Jesus Saw Himself P—Understanding the Priestly Source Torah Before Sinai Paul, Christian Community and the Jews When God Repents
August 1996 7 vs 8 The Son of Man Ruth	October 1996 Saul as Sacrifice Bible Hype The Geography of Faith Michelangelo’s Masterpiece Reclaimed The Water Libation in the Festival of Booths The Fundamentals of Fundamentalism	December 1996 Saul as Sacrifice Bible Hype The Geography of Faith Michelangelo’s Masterpiece Reclaimed The Water Libation in the Festival of Booths The Fundamentals of Fundamentalism

Bible Review: 1995

February 1995 Staging Jonah Altar-ed States Multiple Judaisms Tracing the Evolution of the Hebrew Bible Where God Can Be Found: The Radical Message of Jesus' Death What Does God Require of Us?	April 1995 The Raising of Lazarus Deconstructing the Book of Job Scorpion Ash Saves Woman’s Eyesight How Did Adam and Eve Make a Living? How Did Jesus Die For Our Sins? Bible Versus Babel	June 1995 Should the Bible Be Taught in Public Schools? Yes! But... Did Jesus Oppose the Purity Laws? Ancient Medicine Explaining Jesus' Crucifixion Taking the Lord's Name in Vain—Which Name?
August 1995 Is There a Gospel of Q? Abraham & Yahweh Lost in Translation Naming Is Creating Revelation and the Militias The Most Basic Law in the Bible	October 1995 Abraham’s Eight Crises Divine Authorship? Julian the Apostate and His Plan to Rebuild the Jerusalem Temple Yes, Virginia, There Is a Q What Is—and Is Not—Inspired The Role of the Messiah	December 1995 The Search for (the Wrong) Jesus Erasing History The minimalist assault on ancient Israel A Gospel Among the Scrolls? "The Alien in Your Midst" What Did Jesus Know?

Bible Review: 1994

February 1994 The Arian Controversy The Undiscovered Symmetry of the Bible Jesus and the Teacher of Righteousness—Similarities and Differences Re-creating the Tablets of the Law Jesus Before Pilate The Changing Scene in Biblical Theology	April 1994 Understanding Jesus’ Miracles Inside Solomon’s Temple Literalism vs. Everything Else My View: On Becoming a Male Feminist Bible Scholar How Not to Read the Bible Thinking About Easter	June 1994 Jacob’s Terrible Burden Escape and Rescue—An Interview with Geza Vermes Why Not Idol Meat? The Great Gulf Between Scholars and the Pew The Book of Numbers Miriam's Challenge Mark and the Life—and Death—of Jesus
August 1994 Climate and Collapse Sexual Power and Political Prestige The Catholic Church and Bible Interpretation Unintended Sex Leads to Unintended Fall Scholars Face Off Over Age of Biblical Stories Thinking About the Second Coming An Amputated Bible, Peradventure?	October 1994 Did King Solomon Violate the Second Commandment? King Saul—A Bungler from the Beginning Profiles in Scholarly Courage What Was Paul Doing in “Arabia”? The Shepherd of Hermas Moving Beyond Masculine Metaphors A Political Christmas Story	December 1994 Jeremiah’s Polemic Against Idols Counting the Ten Commandments The Eucharist—Exploring Its Origins The Eucharist—A Sacrificial Formula Preserved Homosexuality and the New Testament Sex and Wisdom: What the Garden of Eden Story Is Saying

Bible Review: 1993

February 1993 Reinterpreting John John’s Anti-Jewish Polemic Rings of Gold—Neither Modest Nor Sensible What Are Pagan River Gods Doing in Scenes of Jesus’ Baptism? Was Eve Cursed? Promised Land The Passion Narratives and the Roots of Anti-Judaism	April 1993 Paul and Judaism: Five Puzzles The Holy Land in Christian Imagination Fantasy & Reality How the Books of the New Testament Were Chosen The Priestly "Picture of Doriain Gray" Why Was Jesus Killed?	June 1993 Child Sacrifice: Returning God’s Gift Why Search for the Historical Jesus? A Pre-Christian “Son of God” Among the Dead Sea Scrolls How Job Fulfills God’s Word to Cain The Biblical Circle of Homosexual Prohibition Recovering the Original Meaning of Matthew’s Parables Canaanites: Who Were They and Where Did They Live?
August 1993 The Gospels that Didn’t Make the Cut The Oldest Cookbooks in the World Songs of the Heart Why Didn’t Joseph Call Home? Sweet Land and Liberty Faith and Scholarship	October 1993 Apocalypse at Waco—Could the Tragedy Have Been Averted? Q - The lost gospel The Binding or Sacrifice of Isaac God Tests Abraham The Future Is Now Historical Criticism and Beyond	December 1993 How the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament Differ What Was the Star that Guided the Magi? The Suffering Servant at Qumran? The New Testament in the Comics Why Did God Harden Pharaoh’s Heart? Jesus in Four Colors Does the Bible Prohibit Homosexuality?

Bible Review: 1992

February 1992 The Dead Sea Scrolls and Early Christianity: Part Two The Book of Esther The Hidden Hand of God Did Sarah Have a Seminal Emission?	April 1992 Ebla and the Bible Biblical Leprosy How to Buy a Bible An Off-Duty Archaeologist Looks at Psalm 23	June 1992 Susanna - Sexual Harassment in Ancient Babylon New Light on the Pharisees Were Words Separated in Ancient Hebrew Writing? A Worldwide Pilgrimage to Jerusalem Luke’s Holy Land and Jesus’ Company The Jordan - Symbol of Spiritual Transition Typological Numbers Taking A Count of the Bible
August 1992 Frank Moore Cross Interview - Part I The Mysterious Copper Scroll Tobit Epipasm - Circumcision in Revers Seeing the Ethical Whithin the Ritual Different Ways of Looking at the Bible	October 1992 Frank Moore Cross Interview - Part II How Mary Magdalene Became a Whore Feminist Interpretations of the Bible: Then and Now If the Bible's So Patriarchal, How Come I Love It? "Subdue the Earth": What Does It Mean? Finding Morality in Luke's Disturbing Parables	December 1992 Frank Moore Cross Interview - Part III Jubilees Priscilla and Aquilla The First Christmas Food and Faith: The Ethical Foundations of the Biblical Diet Laws

Bible Review: 1991

February 1991 The Shunammite Woman Circumcision of Gentile Converts Drama of the Exodus The Book of Numbers	April 1991 What Makes the Ten Commandments Different? Is Everybody a Bible Expert? Sung Sermons The People of the Dead Sea Scrolls Exploring the Valleys of Jerusalem	June 1991 The Testimonium Ancient Aromas When God Acts Immorally Computers and the Bible Biblical Law Hebrew for Bible Readers Greek for Bible Readers
August 1991 How Desert Culture Helps Us Understand the Bible The Aleppo Codex Did Jephthah Kill His Daughter? Heavens Torn Open	October 1991 The Abisha Scroll—3,000 Years Old? The Samaritans The Bible in the Funny Papers How Early Christians Viewed the Birth of Jesus	December 1991 The Dead Sea Scrolls and Early Christianity: Part One What’s a Massa? Eden West Coast Obstetrician Discovers Bible Illustrated by David Roberts The Ineffable Name of Israel's God What We Learn From Studying Religion - and Judaism in Particular

Bible Review: 1990

February 1990 Judith The Gospels The Old Testament Among Christian Theologians Sacred Sex, Sacrifice and Death	April 1990 The Gospel of Thomas A Woman Was the First to Declare Scripture Holy King Og’s Iron Bed Rachel and Leah The Book of Numbers	June 1990 Three Ways to Look at the Ten Plagues Bringing the Talmud into the 20th Century Gauguin and Van Gogh Classical Scholarship—Anti-Black and Anti-Semitic? Americans and the Bible
August 1990 Through the Eyes of Artists Did God Play a Dirty Trick on Jonah at the End? Laments at the Destroyed Temple “An Enormous Horde Arrayed for Battle” Old Testament Manuscripts from Qumran to Leningrad	October 1990 Odd Book In Reaching Out to the 20th Century The Significance of the Scrolls Exploring Four Persistent Prophetic Images The Carmel - Formidable Barrier and Wedge Into the Sea	December 1990 Was John the Baptist an Essene? The Man Who Wasn’t There How Judaism and Christianity Can Talk to Each Other Bridging the Gulf Between Bible Scholarship and Religious Faith

Bible Review: 1989

February 1989 Alter vs. Kugel Taking the Heat in Struggle Over Biblical Poetry Bringing Miriam Out of the Shadows Why Christians Should Bother with the Old Testament Three Capitals in the Hills of Ephraim	April 1989 Two Questions About Crucifixion Amos’s Four Visions Coarse Language in the Bible? Visual Glories	June 1989 Saul & David My Odyssey in New Testament Interpretation The Negev - The Southern State for Biblical History
August 1989 The Resurrection in Recent Scholarly Research The Great Eighth Century Mission to Alexandria Canon - How Books of the Hebrew Bible Were Chosen	October 1989 What Did Jesus Really Say? Israel’s Emergence in Canaan Responses to Jew-Hatred Bible for a King	December 1989 The Nine Commandments Did Paul Commit Suicide? The Hebrew Bible Contains the Oldest Surviving History The Binding of Isaac Eschatology: Understanding the End of Days

Bible Review: 1988

February 1988 Did Moses Have Horns? Afterlife How to Connect Dead Sea Scroll Fragments Computers and the Bible	April 1988 Hosanna Is It Possible to Understand the Book of Job? A New Challenge to the Documentary Hypothesis	June 1988 Eve and Adam The Book of Hours Sumerian Literature Must “Biblical Theology” Be Christian Theology?
August 1988 To Clean or Not to Clean Understanding the Sistine Chapel and Its Paintings Paul - How He Radically Redefined Marriage The Enigma of Paul Problems of Translations	October 1988 Can Scholars Take the Virgin Birth Seriously? Reconstructing the Magnificent Temple Herod Built The Many Faces of Moses	December 1988 The Assassination of Eglon Isaiah Two Master Portraits of Isaiah Corinth & Ephesus The Meeting Season

Bible Review: 1987

Spring 1987 Eight Questions Most Frequently Asked About the Book of Esther The Jewishness of Jesus Parallel Histories of Early Christianity and Judaism Did the Author of Chronicles Also Write the Books of Ezra and Nehemiah?	Summer 1987 Was the Last Supper a Passover Seder? When the Sons of God Cavorted with the Daughters of Men Don’t Let Pseudepigrapha Scare You The Strange Visions of Enoch
Fall 1987 What Really Happened at the Transfiguration? The Question of Israelite Literacy War, Peace and Justice in Early Israel	Winter 1987 Dual Impressions When Did God Finish Creation? When God Sleeps Biblical Maps

Bible Review: 1986

Spring 1986 Deception for Deception The Patriarch Jacob—An Innocent Man Joseph—The Brilliant Failure Jacob Takes His Bride Leah The Mothers of Israel	Summer 1986 From Moses to Jesus: Parallel Themes Paper-Cuts—An Ancient Art Form Glorifies Biblical Texts Should “The Book” Be Panned? A Major New Introduction to the Bible Mendenhall Disavows Paternity
Fall 1986 The Psalms Explaining the Identical Lines at the End of Chronicles and the Beginning of Ezra The Old Testament Background of Jesus as Begotten of God How Can Jeremiah Compare the Migration of Birds to Knowledge of God’s Justice? The Trial Before God of an Accused Adulteress	Winter 1986 Was the Gospel of Matthew Originally Written in Hebrew? Hagar’s Expulsion—A Tale Twice-Told in Genesis The David and Goliath Saga The Earliest Exegesis Is in the Bible Itself

Bible Review: 1985

Winter 1985 Unlocking the Poetry of Love in the Song of Songs “As the Seal Upon Thy Heart” Words That Occur in the Bible Only Once—How Hard Are They to Translate? Different Ways of Looking at the Birth of Jesus What the Ass and the Ox Know—But the Scholars Don’t	Summer 1985 New Directions in Dead Sea Scroll Research The Text Behind the Text of the Hebrew Bible Images of God in Western Art On the Road and on the Sea with St. Paul But Did King David Invent Musical Instruments?
Fall 1985 Original Biblical Text Reconstructed from Newly Found Fragments The Baptism of Jesus “You Shall Not Boil a Kid in Its Mother’s Milk” On Rereading the Kid in Milk Inscription	Winter 1985 The Documentary Hypothesis in Trouble Tracing the Spread of Early Christianity Through Coins Continuity and Change in Israel’s Covenant with God Who Asks (or Tells) God to Repent?