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Leading Scholar Calls for Prompt Publication
How quickly should ancient texts be published after they come into a scholar’s hands? Within one year—at most, says Professor David Noel Freedman in a forthcoming issue of the Biblical Archaeologist. This is a statement of...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March 1978
What the Ass and the Ox Know—But the Scholars Don’t
The first chapter of Isaiah contains one of the most powerful prophetic passages in the entire Bible. The Lord, through the prophet, castigates his people Israel for rebelling. As a result, the country lies desolate, devoured by Israel’s...
Bible Review, Spring 1985
But Did King David Invent Musical Instruments?
He composed Psalms and played the lyre…
While the dividing line between poetry and prose in the Hebrew Bible is imprecise, and the two types tend to blend into each other, especially in the prophetic writings, certain features...
Bible Review, Summer 1985
Who Asks (or Tells) God to Repent?
Other than Moses…
For several years now, I have been working jointly with Frank Andersen of the University of Queensland in Australia on a translation and commentary of Amos, the great eighth-century B.C. prophet. In the course of our detailed work, we have...
Bible Review, Winter 1985
Is It Possible to Understand the Book of Job?
A sensitive new reading of one of the most puzzling and powerful books in the Bible
The book of Job, one of the world’s greatest literary works, is better known for the problems it poses and the issues it spawns than for its answers and resolutions. While to the...
Bible Review, April 1988
The Nine Commandments
The secret progress of Israel’s sins
Embedded in the sequence of books from Genesis through Kings is a hitherto unnoticed sequence of violations of the Ten Commandments, one by one, book by book, by the community of Israel, leading, in the end, to her Exile. I would like to...
Bible Review, December 1989
Did God Play a Dirty Trick on Jonah at the End?
To the modern critical scholar, the Book of Jonah may be a romance, a short fictional delight with a moral. But that’s not what the author—whoever he or she was—intended. According to...
Bible Review, August 1990
Caution: Bible Critic at Work
The task of the biblical text critic is to try to make sense of biblical verses. The text critic faces many kinds of problems. I would like to offer as illustrations two cases where I would recommend emending the text—actually changing the...
Bible Review, February 1999
Don’t Rush to Judgment
Jehoash Inscription May Be Authentic
BAR’s reports on the so-called Jehoash inscription—which describes repairs to the Solomonic Temple by King Jehoash in the ninth century B.C.E.—are unhesitatingly condemnatory: It is a...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2004
“House of David” Is There!
BAR recently published an article by Philip R. Davies in which he claims that the now famous six letters of the Tel Dan inscription, bytdwd, do not mean “the House of David” after all.a The tone and content of the article are an...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1995