Remembering David Bivin: His Scholarship, Faithfulness, and Acts of Loving Kindness: David Bivin, JP’s founder and longtime editor, died on July 14, 2026. We remember his good deeds, his contributions to a clearer understanding the sayings and actions of Jesus, and the many lives he touched. The fruits of his lifetime endure.
Bible Versus Scriptures: By comparing and contrasting the ways people typically encounter the Scriptures today—mainly in the form of the Bible—with how the Scriptures were experienced in the first century—as a loose collection of scrolls—readers gain a more nuanced understanding of what the Scriptures are, how they came into being, and how they should be approached.
Articles Introducing JP’s New Editor, Joshua N. Tilton: To mark this new beginning Joshua worked with David Bivin to prepare a small collection of articles for JP that were previously published elsewhere. Each article is intended to highlight the continuity and the values Joshua hopes to bring to JP.
A Jerusalem Perspective on the Magi: A group of authors, artists, and scholars to bring their areas of interest and expertise to bear on the unusual account in Matthew’s Gospel of the magi who came to pay homage to the newborn “King of the Jews.”
Articles in celebration of David Bivin’s 85th birthday: An eclectic collection of essays written in honor of the eighty-fifth anniversary of David Bivin’s birth.
Character Profiles: Get to know important personalities in the Gospels, the Second Temple Period, and New Testament Studies.
New Testament Priests: Learn about prominent descendants of Aaron in the Gospels with professor Shmuel Safrai.
מְתֻרְגְּמָן Meturgeman: Randall Buth demonstrates how a knowledge of Hebrew can help translators produce better translations of the New Testament Gospels.
The Lord’s Prayer: Study the Jewish Roots of the Lord’s Prayer with Brad Young.
Jesus and the Oral Torah: David Bivin Asks: How Observant Was Jesus?
The New Testament in Modern Hebrew: Head of the Bible Society in Israel, Ray Pritz, discusses the many challenges of translating the New Testament into today’s spoken Hebrew.
Hebrew Nuggets: Hebrew for Beginners with David Bivin.
Aleph-Bet: A Beginner’s Introduction to Reading and Writing Hebrew: Online course with David Bivin.
Rabbinic Parallels: Discover Similarities Between Jesus and the Rabbinic Sages with David Bivin.
Cataloging the Gospels’ Hebraisms: Keep track of indicators of a Hebrew foundation of the Gospel tradition with David Bivin.
A Statistical Approach to the Synoptic Gospels: Can crunching the numbers help us resolve the Synoptic Problem? Halvor Ronning offers a qualified “Yes.”
The LOY Project: Reconstructing the conjectured Greek and Hebrew sources behind the Synoptic Gospels.
