Articles: Hebrew Bible (Old Testament)

  1. Dolansky, Shawna. “How the Serpent Became Satan” (Bible History Daily, October 14, 2018).
  2. Drummond, John. “The History of the Tetragrammaton” (Bible History Daily, February 8, 2023).

 

Articles: Apostolic Scriptures (New Testament)

  1. Klawans, Jonathan. “Was Jesus’ Last Supper a Seder?” (Bible History Daily, January 12, 2017). Explores the question of whether the Last Supper was a Jewish Seder. “Jesus’ Last Supper Still Wasn’t a Passover Seder Meal” (Bible History Daily, March 28, 2017). Continues to explore the previous question with more recent research.

 

Articles: Languages in Late Second Temple period (ca. 150 B.C.E. to 70 C.E.)

  1. Bivin, David, and Roy B. Blizzard. Understanding the Difficult Words of Jesus: New Insights from a Hebraic Perspective. Rev. ed. Shippensburg, PA: Destiny Imagine Publishers, 1994.
  2. Buth, Randall and R. Steven Notley, eds. The Language Environment of First Century Judaea: Jerusalem Studies in the Synoptic Gospels, Vol. 2. Jewish and Christian Perspectives 26. Leiden: Brill, 2014.
  3. Fassberg, Steven E. “Which Semitic Language Did Jesus and Other Contemporary Jews Speak?” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 74, 2 (2012): 263-280.
  4. Fitzmyer, Joseph A. “The Aramaic Language and the Study of the New Testament” Journal of Biblical Literature 99, 1 (1980): 5-21.
  5. Fitzmyer, Joseph A. “Languages of Palestine in the First Century A.D.” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 32, 4 (1970): 501-531.
  6. Grintz, Jehoshua M. “Hebrew as the Spoken and Written Language in the Last Days of the Second Temple” Journal of Biblical Literature 79, 1 (1960): 32-47.
  7. Safrai, Samuel.  “Spoken and Literary Languages in the Time of Jesus.” Pages 225-244 in Jesus’ Last Week: Jerusalem Studies in the Synoptic Gospels, Vol. 1. Edited by R. Steven Notley, Marc Turnage, Brian Becker, and Shmuel Safrai. Leiden: Brill, 2006.
  8. Thompson, Steven.  “Gustaf Dalman, Anti-Semitism, and the Language of Jesus Debate” The Journal of Religious History 34, 1 (2020): 36-54.