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Andrew Jacobs

The Vulnerable Bible in Fact and Fiction

February 27, 2024

In 2023 the Society of Biblical Literature released a print edition of the newest scholarly translation of the Bible: the “updated edition” of the New Revised Standard Version, or NRSVue. This new version introduced minor alterations to the NRSV, which was itself a revision of the Revised Standard Version first published in 1952. New translations and critical editions of the Bible are nothing new in biblical studies; the field is grounded in new discoveries and developments in textual...

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Professor Francis X. Clooney, S.J.

Books on Repeat

May 22, 2017

As the year is winding down, and summer beckons, some Harvard faculty generously shared some books that they have read and re-read.  Frank Clooney, our Director, contributed to this piece in the Harvard Gazette with a brief reflection on the Bible.  You can read the piece in its entirety here.

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Video: From Donation to Diatribe—How Anti-Jewish Interpretation Cashes Out

Video: From Donation to Diatribe—How Anti-Jewish Interpretation Cashes Out

October 17, 2012

Amy-Jill Levine delivered this year's Comparative Theology Lecture. Levine is University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies, and Professor of Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt University Divinity School and College of Arts and Sciences.... Read more about Video: From Donation to Diatribe—How Anti-Jewish Interpretation Cashes Out