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The SBL Study Bible Sidebars


The SBL Study Bible includes numerous sidebars that provide cultural information and discuss different ways passages have been understood throughout history. Many of the sidebars come from Bible Odyssey. All the sidebars included in the SBL Study Bible are listed below. The following list provides links for readers who would like to read the expanded articles on Bible Odyssey.

David H. Aaron, Complaint Traditions
Richard Allington, The Crusades
Sonja Ammann, Gender in the Letter of Jeremiah
Paul Anderson, The Johannine Community
Randall C. Bailey, Hidden Impact of War
Cynthia Baker, The Emergence of Judaism
Ibolya Balla, Eve in Ben Sira
Alicia J. Batten, The Glory of Crucifixion
Katell Berthelot, Forced Circumcision
Mark E. Biddle, The Curse of Ham
Helen K. Bond, Messiah Figures
Catherine Bonesho, Jewish Festivals
Lisa Bowens, African American Pauline Hermeneutics
Brennan Breed, The Masoretic Text and the Dead Sea Scrolls
Marian Broida, Medicine in the Bible
Nuria Calduch-­Benages, Polygamy in Ben Sira
Rosemary Canavan, Magic and Miracles
Holly J. Carey, Spiritual Warfare
Stephen C. Carlson, No Room in the Inn?
Corrine Carvalho, Adulterous Jerusalem
Cynthia R. Chapman, Barrenness
Paul Cizek, Zerubbabel as a Davidic Hero
L. Juliana Claassens, Way of the Lord
Sarah Cook, BCE and CE
Stephen L. Cook, Resurrection
C. L. Crouch, Forced Migration
Jamie Davies, Antichrist
Lorenzo DiTommaso, Apocalyptic Thought after Revelation
Shawna Dolansky, The Shema
Shawna Dolansky, Sheol
Emran El-Badawi, Jesus in the Qur’an
Frances Flannery, 666
Wil Gafney, Black–Beautiful
Cristina Garcia-Alfonso, Rahab from a Cuban Perspective
Susanne Gillmayr­Bucher, Solomon’s Wisdom
Michael J. Gilmour, Tobit’s Dog
Deena Grant, Drinking God’s Wrath
Leonard Greenspoon, Jerusalem
Edward L. Greenstein, In the Beginning
Jennifer Grillo, Memory
J. Albert Harrill, The Physics of Destruction
Rebecca Poe Hays, Pilgrimage of the Nations
Chris Heard, Chapters and Verses, Versification
Meghan Henning, Disability
Joel M. Hoffman, Did Isaiah Predict a Virgin Birth?
David G. Horrell, Was Corinth a Den of Iniquity?
Walter Houston, Jerusalem versus Gerizim
Cameron B. R. Howard, The Authority of the Written Word
Lynn R. Huber, LGBTQIA+ Interpretations
Mignon R. Jacobs, Divorce
Naomi Janowitz, Martyrdom in Early Judaism
Eric Jarrard, Exodus Motif
Jaeyoung Jeon, Levites
Kirsty L. Jones, Samson’s Blindness
Jennifer T. Kaalund, Heroes of Faith
John Kaltner, Joseph in the Qur’an
Sun-Ah Kang, A Korean Perspective
Robert S. Kawashima, Leprosy
Tony Keddie, The Origin of Money
HyeRan Kim-Cragg, Forced Migration
John S. Kloppenborg, Early Christ Groups
Jennifer Knust, Slaves of Christ
Aaron Koller, Purim
Mariam Kovalishyn, Rich and Poor
David T. Lamb, Changing Names
Timothy Langille, Pesher Habakkuk
Alan Lenzi, Divine Secrets
Jeffrey Leonard, Torah and the Psalms
Hanne Løland Levinson, The Gender of God
Nicola Denzey Lewis, Christian Martyrdom
Yii-Jan Lin, Women Leaders
Tod Linafelt, What Happens on the Threshing Floor?
Stuart Macwilliam, The Marriage Metaphor
Herbert R. Marbury, Justifying Slavery
Andrew M. Mbuvi, Noncanonical Texts
Daniel O. McClellan, Names of God
Maria Metzler, Ark of the Covenant
Christine Mitchell, Gender in Chronicles
Teresa Morgan, Faith
Kelly J. Murphy, Idealized Men
Alicia D. Myers, Childhood in the Greco-Roman World
Lorenzo Nigro, Jericho
James D. Nogalski, Day of the Lord
Carolyn Osiek, The Household Unit
Laurie Pearce, Babylonian Invasions
Todd Penner, Paul and Roman Citizenship
Donald C. Polaski, Fiction in a Time of Persecution
Adam Porter, Satan
Cosmin Pricop, Reception of the Three Jews
Jennifer A. Quigley, Works and Welfare
Cat Quine, Jezebel
Julia Rath, Psalms of Solomon
Adele Reinhartz, Jew/Judean
Eric D. Reymond, Hebrew Manuscripts of Ben Sira
Julia Rhyder, Commemorating War
Kent Harold Richards, The Legacy of David
Rafael Rodríguez, Embarrassing Stories
Kimberly D. Russaw, Zelophehad’s Daughters
James A. Sanders, David the Musician
Chris Seeman, Festival of Lights
Sarah Shectman, Israel
Shayna Sheinfeld, River Euphrates
Elizabeth E. Shively, The Suffering Servant
Katherine Allen Smith, Chronicles as Church History
Jeremy Smoak, Priestly Blessing
Katherine E. Southwood, Intermarriage
C. A. Strine, Descriptions of the Temple
Louis Stulman, Trauma Hermeneutics
Kristin Swenson, Who Was Mary Magdalene?
Samuel Thomas, Let Justice Roll Like Water
Nicole L. Tilford, Zoroastrianism
Karin Tillberg, The Strange Woman
Jessica Tinklenberg, Judith and Wonder Woman
M Adryael Tong, Circumcision
Elisa Uusimäki, Judaism as a Philosophy
Katy E. Valentine, Slavery in the New Testament
David M. Valeta, The Legacy of Daniel
Meredith J. C. Warren, Eat This Scroll
Meredith J. C. Warren, Jesus’s Flesh as Food
Cecilia Wassen, Purity and Holiness
Ellen White, Asherah
Uzume Z. Wijnsma, Satrapies and Provinces
Jackie Wyse-Rhodes, The Environment
Philip Yoo, The Red Sea?
Ilona Zsolnay, Prophecy and the Royal Court