This is one of the more substantial resources that are now open-access. The journal is the product of the Institute for Biblical Research (IBR; https://www.ibr-bbr.org/), which is comprised of scholars specializing in Biblical Studies.
Newly released issues:
BBR 24:1
- The
Abishag Episode: Reexamining The Role Of Virility In 1 Kings 1:1-4 In
Light Of The Kirta Epic And The Sumerian Tale “The Old Man And The
Young Woman”
Russell L. Meek - “The Law And The Prophets” In MT Daniel 9:3-19
Ron Haydon - God By Any Other Name: Polyonymy In Greco-Roman Antiquity And Early Christianity
N. Clayton Croy - Perspectives On Paul The Sinner
Patrick Gray - An Exegetical And Biblical Theological Evaluation Of N. T. Wright’s “ How God Became King”
Robert H. Gundry
BBR 24:2
- Theological Patterning In Jeremiah: A Vital Word Through An Ancient Book
Andrew T. Abernethy - Does The Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) Have Canonical Authority? An Interconfessional Approach
Armin D. Baum - Eutychus In Acts And In The Church: The Narrative Significance Of Acts 20:6-12
Julie A. Glavic - The Expectation Of Grace: Paul On Benefaction And The Corinthians’ Ingratitude (2 Corinthians 6:1)
B. J. Oropeza - Echoes Of Sodom And Gomorrah On The Day Of The Lord: Intertextuality And Tradition In 2 Peter 3:7-13
Ryan P. Juza
BBR 24:3
- Environmental Law: Wisdom From The Ancients
Sandra Richter - Why The Danielic “Son Of Man” Is A Divine Being
Markus Zehnder - Nahum’s Representation Of And Response To Neo-Assyria: Imperialism As A Multifaceted Point Of Contact In Nahum
Daniel C. Timmer - “So Was This People”: Translating Haggai 2:14 In The Past Tense
Gregory Goswell - Magical Expectations And The Two-Stage Healing Of Mark 8
Karelynne Gerber Ayayo
BBR 24:4
- An Ontological Definition Of “Canon”?
John C. Poirier - The Heart Of YHWH And His Chosen One In 1 Samuel 13:14
Jason S. Derouchie - Like A Fish And Shrimp Out Of Water: Identifying The Dāg And Remeś Animals Of Habakkuk 1:14
Richard Whitekettle - Salvation By Faith Or By Faithfulness In The Book Of Habakkuk?
E. Ray Clendenen - Romans 1 And Homosexuality: A Critical Review Of James Brownson’s “Bible, Gender, Sexuality”
Preston M. Sprinkle
BBR Volume 23 (2013)
BBR 23:1
- Exodus 34:29-35 And Moses’ Shining Face
Joshua M. Philpot - The Metaphoric Use Of Slave Terms In The Hebrew Bible
Edward J. Bridge - Joshua And Kingship
Gregory Goswell - A Farewell To Arms: Goliath’s Death As Rhetoric Against Faith In Arms
Gregory T. K. Wong - The Human Ideal, The Problem Of Evil, And Moral Responsibility In 4 Maccabees
David A. deSilva
BBR 23:2
- The Ethics Of Inclusion: The גר And The אזרח In The Passover To YHWH
Joseph Ryan Kelly - Rest For The Animals? Nonhuman Sabbath Repose In Pentateuchal Law
A. Rahel Schafer - Desiring God: The Blood Of The Covenant In Exodus 24
Amy L. B. Peeler - A Passionate Prophet: Reading Emotions In The Book Of Malachi
E. Ray Clendenen - Reconsidering The Authorship Of Colossians
Maria A. Pascuzzi
BBR 23:3
- The Semantics Of יצא In Exodus 21:22: Reassessing The Variables That Determine Meaning
John Makujina - Reassessing The Origins Of Deuteronomic Prophecy: Early Moses Traditions In Deuteronomy 18:15-22
J. D. Atkins - The Abused Present
David L. Mathewson - Chrysostom And Epiphanius: Long Hair Prohibited As Covering In 1 Corinthians 11:4, 7
A. Philip Brown II - Persecution And The Purpose Of Revelation With Reference To Roman Jurisprudence
Alan S. Bandy
BBR 23:4
- Current Trends In Old Testament Textual Criticism
Paul D. Wegner - The “Missio Dei” As An Integrative Motif In The Book Of Jeremiah
Jerry Hwang - From Slaves Of Sin To Slaves Of God: Reconsidering The Origin Of Paul’s Slavery Metaphor In Romans 6
John K. Goodrich - Meals
In Pagan Temples And Apostolic Finances How Effective Is Paul’s
Argument In 1 Corinthians 9:1-23 In The Context Of 1 Corinthians 8-10?
Joel R. White - Authority And Motivation In The Apocalypse Of John
Alexander E. Stewart
BBR Volume 22 (2012)
BBR 22:1
BBR 22:2
- The Septuagint and Apostolic Hermeneutics: Amos 9 in Acts 15
W. Edward Glenny- Matthew and Psalms of Solomon’s Messianism: A Comparative Study in First-Century Messianology
Joel Willitts- Disagreement in the Greco-Roman Literary Tradition and the Implications for Gospel Research
Preston T. Massey- What “Mercies of God”? Oiktirmos in Romans 12:1 against Its Septuagintal Background
N. K. Gupta- Paul’s Imprisonment as the Glory of the Ethnē: A Discourse Analysis of Ephesians 3:1–13
Aaron Sherwood
BBR 22:3
- Toward a Theory of the Poetry of the Hebrew Bible: The Poetry of the Psalms as a Test Case
Beat Weber- The Bible as Specimen, Talisman, and Dragoman in Africa: A Look at Some African Uses of the Psalms and 1 Corinthians 12–14
Grant LeMarquand- Paul and Sedition: Pauline Apologetic in Acts
Craig S. Keener- Rewriting Prophets in the Corinthian Correspondence: A Window on Paul’s Hermeneutic
J. David Stark- The Spiritual Powers of Ephesians 6:10–18 in the Light of African Pentecostal Spirituality
J. Ayodeji Adewuya
BBR 22:4
- Lexical Pragmatics and the Lexicon
Gene L. Green- “God So Near:” An Examination of the Ancient Near Eastern Setting for Deuteronomy 4:7 and קרבים
Daniel P. Bricker- The First Glimpse of Saul and His Subsequent Transformation
Ralph K. Hawkins- Scripture as a Spiritual Phenomenon: The Evidence of the 11Q Psalms Scroll Colophon
William Yarchin- The Great Commission as the Climax of Matthew’s Mountain Scenes
Trent Rogers- Did Jesus Connect Son of Man to Daniel 7? A Short Reflection on the Position of Larry Hurtado
Darrell L. Bock
- Sin and Atonement: Lessons from the Pentateuch
Jay Sklar- On the Meaning of זעקת מושל in Qohelet 9:17b
Aron Pinker- Ethical Rhetoric and Divine Power: Reflections on Matthew 10:17–20 (and Parallels)
Kenneth R. Chase- Interpreting Apocalyptic Symbolism in the Gospel of Matthew
Daniel M. Gurtner- Demonstrating Transgression by Building Up the Faith: Argumentation in Galatians 2:17–18
John W. Taylor
BBR 21:1
BBR 21:2
- Scholar and Advocate: The Stories of Moses in Midrash Exodus Rabbah
Michael Graves- The “At-Sinai Narrative”: Exodus 18–Numbers 10
John I. Lawlor- Philo on Phinehas and the Levites: Observing an Exegetical Connection
David Lincicum- The Genre of 2 Peter: A Comparison with Jewish and Early Christian Testaments
Mark D. Matthews- Revelatory Experience and Pseudepigraphical Attribution in Early Jewish Apocalypses
Armin D. Baum
BBR 21:3
- Old Testament Gemstones: A Philological, Geological, and Archaeological Assessment of the Septuagint
James A. Harrell- A Communion of Subjects: Zoological Classification and Human/Animal Relations in Psalm 104
Richard Whitekettle- Building House to House (Isaiah 5:8): Theological Reflection on Land Development and Creation Care
Heath A. Thomas- NT Scholars’ Use of OT Lament Terminology and Its Theological and Interdisciplinary Implications
D. Keith Campbell- Peter and the Prophetic Word: The Theology of Prophecy Traced through Peter’s Sermons and Epistles
Paul A. Himes
- Distinguishing the Angel of the Lord
Andrew S. Malone- The Seventy Sevens of Daniel 9: A Timetable for the Future?
Richard S. Hess- Otho: A Targeted Comparison of Suetonius’s Biography and Tacitus’s History, with Implications for the Gospels’ Historical Reliability
Craig S. Keener- The Temple and the Thorn: 2 Corinthians 12 and Paul’s Heavenly Ecclesiology
Jason B. Hood- Angels of the Churches in Revelation 1–3: Status Quaestionis and Another Proposal
Everett Ferguson