Some of the poetic cadence of the older version certainly is lost in the newer one, but almost anyone, with a fair knowledge of the English language, can understand the meaning, without the necessity of interpretation by a Biblical scholar.

The English Biblical scholar Robert Henry Charles ( 1855 – 1931 ) reasoned on internal textual grounds that the book was edited by someone who spoke no Hebrew and who wished to promote a different theology from John's.

Biblical scholar Ehud Ben Zvi reminds readers of the socio-historical context in which Hosea was composed.

Lobegott Friedrich Constantin ( von ) Tischendorf ( January 18, 1815 – December 7, 1874 ) was a noted German Biblical scholar.

Following the lead of Yale scholar John Boswell, it has been argued that a number of Early Christians entered into homosexual relationships, and that certain Biblical figures had homosexual relationships, despite Biblical injunctions against sexual relationships between members of the same sex.

Around 190 AD under the leadership of the scholar Pantanaeus, the school of Alexandria became an important institution of religious learning, where students were taught by scholars such as Athenagoras, Clement, Didymus, and the native Egyptian Origen, who was considered the father of theology and who was also active in the field of commentary and comparative Biblical studies.

Together with Pamphilus, he was a scholar of the Biblical canon.

Biblical scholar John Elliott notes that the author explicitly urges the addressees to respect authority ( 2: 13 ) and even honor the emperor ( 2: 17 ), strongly suggesting that they were unlikely to be suffering from official Roman persecution.

Biblical scholar Paul Achtemeier believes that persecution of Christians by Domitian would have been in character, but points out that there is no evidence of official policy targeted specifically at Christians.

Biblical scholar John Dominic Crossan differentiates between Josephus's account of John and Jesus like this: " John had a monopoly, but Jesus had a franchise.

David M. Scholer, a Biblical scholar at Fuller Theological Seminary, stated that the verse Gal 3: 28 is " the fundamental Pauline theological basis for the inclusion of women and men as equal and mutual partners in all of the ministries of the church.

Biblical scholar F. F. Bruce has said " the evidence for our New Testament writings is ever so much greater than the evidence for many writings of classical authors, the authenticity of which no one dreams of questioning ... It is a curious fact that historians have often been much readier to trust the New Testament records than have many theologians.

Biblical scholar Bruce M. Metzger notes that in one account of the Osirian cycle he dies on the 17th of the month of Athyr ( approximating to a month between October 28 and November 26 in modern calendars ), is revivified on the 19th and compares this to Christ rising on the " third day " but he thinks " resurrection " is a questionable description.

* December 7 – Constantin von Tischendorf, German Biblical scholar ( b. 1815 )

* May 24 – William F. Albright, American archeologist and Biblical scholar ( d. 1971 )

* February 15 – Constantin von Tischendorf, German Biblical scholar ( d. 1874 )

* April 28 – Ezra Abbot, American Biblical scholar ( d. 1884 )

** William Whittingham, English Biblical scholar and religious reformer ( b. 1524 )

Biblical scholar Thomas Kelly Cheyne suggested that it might be a derogatory corruption of Ba ‘ al Zəbûl, " Lord of the High Place " ( i. e., Heaven ) or " High Lord ".

From these figures for the size of a Biblical ell, that of the basic unit — the fingerbreadth ( Etzba ) — can be calculated to be either 22 or 21 mm ; Jewish rabbinical sources approximate at either 20 mm, or according to Talmudic scholar Chazon Ish, 25 mm.

Biblical scholar Michael D. Coogan discusses this as an inaccuracy regarding Mordecai's age.

The Passover Plot ( ISBN 1-85230-836-2 ) is the name of a controversial, best-selling 1965 book, by British Biblical scholar Hugh J. Schonfield who has also published a translation of the New Testament informed with a Jewish perspective.

* John Howard Yoder-Prominent Mennonite theologian and ethicist and Biblical scholar

* Coogan, Michael D. ( ed ), " The Oxford History of the Biblical World ( Oxford University Press, 1998 )

*" The Biblical Insights of Michael Polanyi ".

The lyrics of Christian spirituals reference symbolic aspects of Biblical images such as Moses and Israel's Exodus from Egypt in songs such as " Michael Row the Boat Ashore ".

Economist Michael Hudson maintains that the Biblical legislation of the Jubilee and Sabbatical years addressed the same problems encountered by these Babylonian kings, but the Biblical formulation of the laws presented a significant advance in justice and the rights of the people.

* Antonio Negri, The Labor of Job: The Biblical Text as a Parable of Human Labor, ( Forward: Michael Hardt ; Translator: Matteo Mandarini ), Duke University Press, ( begun 1983 ) 2009.

In the journal Biblical Archaeological Review, Michael Homan argues that many biblical scholars have misinterpreted early texts, translating to ' wine ' when the more sensible translation is ' beer '.

Biblical scholar Michael Coogan compares the prophecy of Micaiah to that of several other prophets, including Isaiah ’ s vision of the Divine Council ( Isaiah 6: 1-8 ).

( 1999 ) " Bitter Lives: Israel in and out of Egypt " in: The Oxford History of the Biblical World, ed: Michael D. Coogan.

A whole theology may be deduced from the large number of Biblical names referring to acts, actions, and attributes of the deity ; thus: YHWH " gives " ( Elnathan, Jonathan ); " increases the family " ( Eliasaph ); " is gracious " ( Elhanan, Hananeel ); " has mercy " ( Jerahmeel ); " blesses " ( Barachel, Berechiah ); " loves " ( Jedidiah, Eldad ); " helps " ( Eleazar, Azareel, Azariah ); " benefits " ( Gamaliel ); " holds fast " ( Jehoahaz ); " is strong " ( Uzziel, Azaziah ); " delivers " ( Elpalet, Eliphalet ); " comforts " ( Nehemiah ); " heals " ( Rephael ); " conceals " ( Elzaphan, Zephaniah ); " establishes " ( Eliakim ); " knows " ( Eliada ); " remembers " ( Zechariah ); " sees " ( Hazael, Jahaziel ); " hears " ( Elishama ); " answers " ( Anaiah ); " speaks " ( Amariah ); " is praised " ( Jehaleel ); " is asked " ( Shealtiel ); " comes " ( Parks ); " lives " ( Jehiel ); " shoots " ( Jeremiah ); " thunders " ( Raamiah ; Nehemiah 7: 7 ); " gladdens " ( Jahdiel, Jehdeiah ); " judges " ( Elishaphat, Jehoshaphat, Shephatiah ); " is just " ( Jehozadak ); " is king " ( Elimelech, Malchiel ); " is lord " ( Bealiah ); " is great " ( Gedaliah ); " is perfect " ( Jotham ); " is high " ( Jehoram ); " is glorious " ( Jochebed ); " is incomparable " ( Michael, literally " who is like God?

* Understanding of the Covenant of Joseph by Michael Stansfield ( Biblical perspective )

* The Story of God: Wesleyan Theology and Biblical Narrative by Michael Lodahl ( 1994, ISBN 0-8341-1479-8 )

Biblical scholar L. Michael White, not himself a Jesus-myth theorist, writes that the usual date given for Jesus's birth is between 7 and 4 BCE.

However, as Biblical scholar L. Michael White writes, so far as we know, Jesus did not write anything, nor did anyone who had personal knowledge of him.

# ‘ Historical Criticism and Literary Interpretation: Is there any Common Ground ?’, in Crossing the Boundaries: Essays in Biblical Interpretation in Honour of Michael D. Goulder ( ed.

* Thompson, Michael B., The New Perspective on Paul ( Grove Biblical Series ), 2002.

Biblical scholars are in general agreement that it was written by St. Paul to the church of Philippi, an early center of Christianity in Greece around 62 A. D. Other scholars argue for an earlier date, c. 50-60 A. D.

Ruth A. Drayer's book, Numerology, The Power in Numbers ( Square One Publishers ) says that around the turn of the century ( from 1800 to 1900 A. D .) Mrs. L. Dow Balliett combined Pythagoras ' work with Biblical reference.

Washington, D. C .: Biblical Archaeology Society.

He received a Ph. D. in Biblical Studies from Duke University in 1978, and was tenured at Lycoming College in 1984, after teaching religion there, at Hampden-Sydney College, at UNC-Chapel Hill, and Duke.

Philo ( 20 B. C .– 50 A. D .), known also as Philo of Alexandria (), Philo Judaeus, Philo Judaeus of Alexandria, Yedidia, " Philon ", and Philo the Jew, was a Hellenistic Jewish Biblical philosopher born in Alexandria.

While Hollywood filmmakers, such as D. W. Griffith with his 1916 Intolerance, peopled their historical epics with dramatic conflicts and realistic protagonists, many of the Pepla merely took a real historical or Biblical event and used it as a backdrop for a simplistic ( albeit engrossing ), comic book-like heroic adventure tale.

Biblical scholars from the controversial Jesus Seminar, a group of textual critics ( including figures like Robert W. Funk, John Dominic Crossan, Marcus Borg, Bruce D. Chilton, and John S. Kloppenborg ), have said that the whole of Matthew chapter 28 is the result of later editorial work on the Gospels and was never uttered by Jesus or his immediate disciples.

English translation by Torrey of portion of this 9th century work covering the period: " The Mohammedan conquest of Egypt and North Africa in the Years 643-705 A. D., translated from the Original Arabic of Ibn ' Abd-el Hakem '", Biblical and Semitic Studies vol.

Among the 30, 000 manuscripts, which range from Greek and Latin to Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic, Ethiopian, Turkish and Persian, is the Muratorian fragment, of ca 170 A. D., the earliest example of a Biblical canon and an original copy of De divina proportione by Luca Pacioli.

* The New Jerome Biblical Commentary, edited by Raymond E. Brown, Joseph A. Fitzmeyer, and Roland E. Murphy, Prentice Hall 1990, update of 1968 edition, see John S. Kselman and Ronald D. Witherup, " Modern New Testament Criticism ," sections II & III on Bultmann and reactions, pp. 1137 – 1142.

* Attridge, H. W., and R. A. Oden, Jr., Philo of Byblos: The Phoenician History: Introduction, Critical Text, Translation, Notes, CBQMS 9 ( Washington: D. C .: The Catholic Biblical Association of America, 1981 ).

The School also offers the Doctor of Ministry degree along with a Ph. D in Renewal Studies with concentrations in Biblical Studies, Theology and Church History.

In the late 1990s, R. E. Jackson would produce An Evaluation of the Evangelistic Emphasis of the North American Power Evangelism Movement, 1977-1997 as an aid to skeptics, D. Williams produced Signs, Wonders, and the Kingdom of God: A Biblical Guide for the Reluctant Skeptic.

* D. Williams, Signs, Wonders, and the Kingdom of God: A Biblical Guide for the Reluctant Skeptic ( Ann Arbor, Michigan: Vine Books, 1989 ).

* D. Andrew Kille, writer, teacher, and scholar of Psychological Biblical Criticism

They include Writing Like A Woman ( 1983 ), which explores the poems of Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, H. D., May Swenson and Adrienne Rich, and The Nakedness of the Fathers: Biblical Visions and Revisions ( 1994 ), which approaches the Torah with a midrashic sensibility.

See the articles by John D Davis in The Biblical World, new series, vol.

* Jonathan Loved David: Homosexuality in Biblical Times ( ISBN 0-664-24185-9 ) by Tom Horner, Ph. D. ( pgs 15-39 )

Another scholar, April D. DeConick, a professor of Biblical studies at Rice University, reports in the New York Times that the National Geographic translation was critically faulty in many substantial respects, and that based on a corrected translation, Judas was actually a demon, truly betraying Jesus, rather than following his orders.

Luke thus seems to place Jesus ' birth after 6 A. D. That Matthew has Jesus ' birth in the years BC is not a Biblical error.