David Bivin
American writer
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David N. Bivin (Hebrew: דוד ביווין; born July 20, 1939, in Cleveland, Oklahoma) is an Israeli-American biblical scholar, member of the Jerusalem School of Synoptic Research. His role at the Jerusalem School involves publishing the journal Jerusalem Perspective and organizing seminars.
Career
Jerusalem Perspective
Along with Jeffrey Magnuson, Bivin founded Jerusalem Perspective in 1987 as a monthly, four-page newsletter. Later it became a quarterly, forty-page, full-color magazine. From 1987-1999, Jerusalem Perspective published fifty-six print issues,[2] after which it transitioned to an online-only distribution format.[3] Bivin serves as its publisher and editor.[4]
Methodology
Bivin's work sometimes involves taking a Greek phrase from the Bible, attempting to uncover what the underlying Hebrew idiom would have been, and then translating and interpreting the idiom, in other words relating a Greek text to its Hebrew equivalent, then translating it to English.
Family
David Bivin immigrated to Israel in 1963. Bivin served as a sergeant in an Israeli army reserve infantry unit from 1974 to 1991. He and his wife currently reside in a suburb of Jerusalem, Israel.
Works
Books
- Bivin, David; Bivin, Josa (1972). Hebrew 40: translations, units 1-40. Mount Zion, Israel: American Institute of Holy Land Studies.
- ———; Goldfarb, Robert (1977). Fluent Biblical and Modern Hebrew. Jerusalem: The American Upland. OCLC 4677922.
- ———; Blizzard, Roy B. (1983). Understanding the Difficult Words of Jesus. Arcadia, CA: Makor Foundation. OCLC 17532669.
- ———; Tverberg, Lois; Okkema, Bruce (2005). New Light on the Difficult Words of Jesus: Insights from His Jewish Context. Holland, MI: En-Gedi Resource Center. ISBN 9780974948225. OCLC 318198425. Although similar in title to Bivin & Blizzard (1983), it is substantially different in content. Much of the book was initially published in the journal Jerusalem Perspective.
Chapters
- ——— (2006). "Evidence of an Editor's Hand in Two Instances of Mark's Account of Jesus' Last Week?"". In Notley, R. Steven; Turnage, Marc; Becker, Brian (eds.). Jesus' Last Week. Jerusalem studies in the Synoptic Gospels. Vol. 1. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 9789004147904.
Journals edited
- Jerusalem perspective Online. Jerusalem, Israel: David Bivin, 1999-now.
- Jerusalem perspective : a monthly report on research into the words of Jesus. Jerusalem, Israel: David Bivin, 1987-1999.