David Bivin Explained

David Bivin
Birth Date:	July 20, 1939
Birth Place:	Cleveland, Oklahoma
Occupation:	Scholar
Spouse:	Josa Bivin^[1]

David N. Bivin (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

• Book: Bivin . David . Bivin . Josa . Hebrew 40: translations, units 1-40 . Mount Zion, Israel . American Institute of Holy Land Studies . 1972 .
• Book: Bivin . David . 3 . Goldfarb . Robert . Robert Goldfarb . Fluent Biblical and Modern Hebrew . Jerusalem . The American Upland . 1977 . 4677922 .
• Book: Bivin . David . 3 . Blizzard . Roy B. . Roy B. Blizzard . Understanding the Difficult Words of Jesus . Arcadia, CA . Makor Foundation . 1983 . 17532669 .
• Book: Bivin . David . 3 . Tverberg . Lois . Lois Tverberg . Okkema . Bruce . Bruce Okkema . New Light on the Difficult Words of Jesus: Insights from His Jewish Context . Holland, MI . En-Gedi Resource Center . 2005 . 9780974948225 . 318198425 .

Chapters

• Book: Bivin . David . 3 . Evidence of an Editor's Hand in Two Instances of Mark's Account of Jesus' Last Week?" . Notley . R. Steven . R. Steven Notley . Turnage . Marc . Marc Turnage . Becker . Brian . Brian Becker (scholar) . Jesus' Last Week . Jerusalem studies in the Synoptic Gospels . 1 . Leiden . Brill . 2006 . 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.

See also

• Jerusalem school hypothesis
• Robert Lisle Lindsey

References

1. Jerusalem Perspective Online, "David Bivin." Jerusalem perspective. Retrieved 05 March, 2007. http://www.jerusalemperspective.com/default.aspx?tabid=32
2. PDFs of all fifty-six issues of Jerusalem Perspective magazine can be found at this link: https://www.jerusalemperspective.com/twelve-year-index-of-jp-print-magazine/.
3. http://www.jerusalemperspective.com.
4. Web site: About JP . JerusalemPerspective.com . 1 June 2021.

External links

• Biography