Dever: We want to make the Bible history. Many people think it has to be history or nothing. But there is no word for history in the Hebrew Bible. In other words, what did the biblical writers ...

Most translators opt for “children of Israel,” even though the term is ambiguous ... The number 40, for example, appears in the Bible over 150 times. Of these, the words 40 days and 40 nights are ...

Do you not possess what Chemosh your god gives you to possess? So, whatever the Lord our God has driven out before us, we will possess it.” — Judges 11:24 ...