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 to 1999, Jerusalem Perspective published fifty-six print issues,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/. after which it transitioned to an online-only distribution format.http://www.jerusalemperspective.com. Bivin serves as its publisher and editor.
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 resided in a suburb of Jerusalem, Israel, for many years. He passed away on July 14, 2026.
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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
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