Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, Brigham Young University. 

Studies in the Bible and Antiquity is a peer-reviewed publication dedicated to promoting understanding of the history, meaning, and significance of the Bible and other ancient texts An article must present a clear, original thesis or key proposition that sheds new light on these texts.

Current Volume: Volume 8 (2016)

Front Matter

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Front Matter

Articles

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The Book of Mormon as Biblical Interpretation: An Approach to LDS Biblical Studies
Joseph M. Spencer

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Perspectives about Pontius Pilate in the Ante-Nicene Fathers
Frank F. Judd Jr.

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The Matrilineal Cord of Rahab in the Via Latina Catacomb
Catherine C. Taylor

Book Reviews

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Catherine L. McDowell. The Image of God in the Garden of Eden: The Creation of Humankind in Genesis 2:5–3:24 in Light of mīs pî pīt pî and wpt-r Rituals of Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2015.
Cory Crawford

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David E. Bokovoy. Authoring the Old Testament: Genesis–Deuteronomy. Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2014.
Alex Douglas

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Eva Mroczek. The Literary Imagination in Jewish Antiquity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Carli Anderson

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Mark S. Smith. Where the Gods Are: Spatial Dimensions of Anthropomorphism in the Biblical World. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2016.
Daniel O. McClellan

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Peter Brown. The Ransom of the Soul: Afterlife and Wealth in Early Western Christianity. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015.
Daniel Becerra

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Introduction
Matthew J. Grey and Cory Crawford

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The Irreconcilability of Judaism and Modern Biblical Scholarship
James L. Kugel

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Hubristic Specialists: Catholic Responses to Higher Biblical Criticism
Candida R. Moss

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Reflections (Personal and Otherwise) on Protestantism’s Uneasy and Diverse Response to Higher Criticism
Peter Enns

 

“We Believe the Bible to Be the Word of God, as Far as It Is Translated Correctly”: Latter-day Saints and Historical Biblical Criticism
David Rolph Seely

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“Beloved, . . . It Doth Not Yet Appear What We Shall Be”: The Fractured Reality of LDS Biblical Studies
D. Jill Kirby

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