JESUS: THE INCARNATION OF THE WORD Jesus: The Incarnation of the Word tackles the Elephant in the Room of Jewish-Christian dialogue. Jesus’s conception. It’s a topic avoided even by many who accept his resurrection. Did Jesus exist before Bethlehem? Who was mysterious Melchizedek? What does Psalm 110 really say? How far do the variant genealogies … Read more
WELCOME to the Bright Morning Star site. My name is David Mitchell. I’m a biblical theologian, musical director, and musicologist. Bright Morning Star is my publication site. My most popular book is about the best-kept secret of Rabbinic Judaism, the dying messiah, Messiah ben Joseph (2016). (Thanks to everyone who has reviewed it on Amazon.) … Read more
THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS have provided the greatest source of new insights into biblical studies in the last hundred years. The story is well known now of how the first scrolls were discovered by a Bedouin shepherd boy in 1946. Later, other scrolls were discovered, making a total of thousands of documents which originated from the Judean state in the years 200 BC to AD 70.
Here below are some scholarly articles and papers I’ve written over the years. Some are pre-publication and some are final versions. Much of this material appears in maturer form in my books. You’ll find other articles and reviews on my academia.edu page. ‘Psalm 110, Jesus, and Melchizedek‘ in D.M. Howard, Jr, and A. Schmutzer (eds.), … Read more