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Jul 28, 2019

You Say What you Eat

Although not specifically related to the Bible, Archaeology magazine has an interesting article here related to how dental factors may affect pronunciation. I am not a trained linguist but I think it likely that this is correct. The small grit and stones from the ubiquitous use of grinding implements in the ancient Near East for food production affected the wear of teeth and this in turn may have had an impact on pronunciation.

A grinding stone found in my square at Tel Shiloh in 2019.

Jul 27, 2019

The Latest Issue of the Review of Biblical Literature

The latest issue of Review of Biblical Literature is out. Reviews can be accessed by clicking the links below but unfortunately you must be a SBL member.

Jacob Paxy Alumkal, The Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ Implied in the Image of the Paschal Lamb in 1 Cor 5:7: An Intertextual, Exegetical and Theological Study
Reviewed by Rob A. Fringer

Bradford A. Anderson and Jonathan Kearney, eds., Ireland and the Reception of the Bible: Social and Cultural Perspectives
Reviewed by Anthony Swindell

Michele Cammarosano, Hittite Local Cults
Reviewed by Selim Ferruh Adalı

Shawn W. Flynn, Children in Ancient Israel: The Hebrew Bible and Mesopotamia in Comparative Perspective
Reviewed by Kristine Henriksen Garroway

David B. Gowler, The Parables after Jesus: Their Imaginative Receptions across Two Millennia
Reviewed by Mikeal C. Parsons

Naomi S. S. Jacobs, Delicious Prose: Reading the Tale of Tobit with Food and Drink: A Commentary
Reviewed by Jordan D. Rosenblum

William Johnstone, Exodus 20–40
Reviewed by Ralph K. Hawkins

Sara Kipfer, ed., Visualizing Emotions in the Ancient Near East
Reviewed by John R. L. Moxon

Aaron J. Kogon and Jean-Philippe Fontanille, The Coinage of Herod Antipas: A Study and Die Classification of the Earliest Coins of Galilee
Reviewed by David Hendin

Andreas J. Köstenberger, Commentary on 1–2 Timothy and Titus
Reviewed by Michael Scott Robertson

Elisabeth Lorenz, Ein Jesusbild im Horizont des Nationalsozialismus
Reviewed by Werner H. Kelber

Jan Stievermann, ed., Biblia Americana: America’s First Bible Commentary; A Synoptic Commentary on the Old and New Testaments: Volume 5: Proverbs–Jeremiah

Reviewed by Adriaan Neele

Jul 26, 2019

Was Bathsheba Bathing or Washing

Most are familiar with the infamous encounter of David with Bathsheba. But one question that arises in 2 Samuel 11 is whether Bathsheba was bathing (hygienic) or washing (cultic) when David saw her. Claude Mariottini has a nice discussion on the issue here.