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Article Archives - Old Testament
- Considering the Rejoinder to LMLK Chronology
By G.M. Grena - Mixed Marriages as a Challenge to Identity in Second Temple Judaism
By Christian Frevel and Benedikt Rausche - Reading Biblical Narrative with Its Ancient Audience
By Philip F. Esler - “The End of Biblical Minimalism?”
By Philip Davies - A Very Tall “Cautionary Tale”: A Response to Ron Hendel
By Robert Rezetko et al - The Deuteronomic History, the Book of Chronicles, and Their Relationship
By Raymond F. Person, Jr. - In My View the Biblical Sea of Reeds is the Red Sea
By Colin Humphreys - Computerized Bible Criticism
By Idan Dershowitz - The Fool’s Gold of Ophir
By Steven Weitzman - A Portrait of the Deuteronomistic Historian at Work?
By Kurt Noll - After Gunkel: Roads Not Taken
By Ronald Hendel - Creation, Science, and Genesis?
By Charles David Isbell - Genesis and the Moses Story
By Konrad Schmid - Identifying King David's Palace: Mazar's Flawed Reading of the Biblical Text
By Todd Bolen - The Dan Debate
By Hallvard Hagelia - Considering the Reconsidering of LMLK Chronology
By G.M. Grena - From the Seal of a Seer to an Inscribed Game Board: A Catalog of Eleven Early Alphabetic Inscriptions Recently Discovered in Egypt and
Palestine
By Gordon J. Hamilton - Linguistic Dating of Biblical Texts
By Ian Young, Robert Rezetko and Martin Ehrensvärd - The Temple Mount in Jerusalem During the First Temple Period: An Archaeologist's View
By David Ussishkin - The Exile From a Bird's Eye View
By Bob Becking - Merenptah's "Israel", The Bible's, and Ours
By William Dever - Beyond Labels: What Comes Next?
By Philip Davies - Forget about Noah's Ark; There Was No Worldwide Flood
By Robert R. Cargill, Ph.D. - Orah's Story
By Jennie R. Ebeling - Genesis1 as Ancient Cosmology
By John H. Walton - Names in Genesis 1-11
By Richard S. Hess - The Garden of Eden
By Eric H. Cline - Did David and Solomon Exist?
By Eric H. Cline - The Persian Period and the Origins of Israel: Beyond the "Myths"
By Efrain Velazquez II - A review of Niels Peter Lemche's The Old Testament Between Theology and History: A Critical Survey
By Charles David Isbell - Reflections on the Composition of Genesis
By Bill T. Arnold - From Yahwism to Judahism
By Charles David Isbell - Evidence for Asherah
By Judith Hadley - The Subject of Translatability of Deities
By Mark Smith - The Image of Ayyub (Job) in the Qu'ran
By Stephen Vicchio - Redating the Building of the 'Second' Temple
By Diana Edelman - The Jehoash Inscription
By Stuart A. Irvine and Charles David Isbell - The Campaign of Pharaoh Shoshenq I in Palestine
By Kevin A. Wilson - The Moses Myth, Beyond Biblical History
By Brian Britt - Cuneiform and the Bible
By Lesley Adkins - Humanizing Moses
By Joel Cohen - Updates on the Ossuary of Ya'acob bar Yosef and the Temple Tablet
By Rochelle Altman - The Problem of Nationality in Antiquity
By Steven Grosby - Report on the Temple Tablet
By Rochelle Altman - Historical Issues in the Pentateuch
By John McDermott - The Early History of God (a new introduction)
By Mark Smith - The Politics of Ancient Israel
By Norman Gottwald - The role of music in ancient Israel/Palestine
By Theodore W. Burgh - Society and the Promise to David: Reading 2 Samuel 7
By William M. Schniedewind - Israel's Polytheistic Background and the Ugartic Texts
By Mark S. Smith - Reconstructing the Society of Ancient Israel
By Paula McNutt - The Battles of Armageddon: Megiddo and the Jezreel Valley from the Bronze Age to the Nuclear Age
By Eric H. Cline - Proverbs 1-9
By Michael V. Fox - Making Biblical Women Visible
By Carol Meyers - David, Solomon and Egypt
By Dr. Paul Ash - Official Religion and Popular Religion in Pre-Exilic Ancient Israel
By Jacques Berlinerblau - Exodus 1-18
By William C. Propp - King David: A Biography
By Steven McKenzie
