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Michael D. Coogan is lecturer on Hebrew Bible/Old Testament at Harvard Divinity School, Director of Publications for the Harvard Semitic Museum, editor-in-chief of Oxford Biblical Studies Online, [1] and professor emeritus of religious studies at Stonehill College.
The author, Michael Coogan, makes several claims on various issues in his book God and Sex, including: that in the Old Testament, child sacrifice was prohibited, but this prohibition wasn't always obeyed; [11] that a man's sexual history was never an issue (thus no such thing as a virginity requirement for men); [12] the only religiously celibate Jews were the Essenes, but this was contrary to ...
The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew and occasionally Aramaic writings by the Israelites. [1] The second division of Christian Bibles is the New Testament, written in Koine Greek.
Old Testament (OT) New Testament (NT) ... Michael Coogan says that the Ketuvim was not a fixed canon until the 2nd ... or to alter a syllable"; [10] Michael Barber ...
The State of the Printed Hebrew text of the Old Testament. Oxford. Metzger, Bruce Manning; Michael David Coogan (1993). The Oxford Companion to the Bible. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195046458. Montgomery, James Alan (1907). The Samaritans, the Earliest Jewish Sect: Their History, Theology and Literature. The J.C. Winston Co.
Coogan, Michael D. (2008). A Brief Introduction to the Old Testament: The Hebrew Bible in Its Context. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195332728. Archived from the original on July 1, 2023; Coogan, Michael D. (October 1, 2010). God and Sex: What the Bible Really Says. Grand Central Publishing. p. 13. ISBN 978-0-446-57413-6.
Michael Coogan writes that for the redactors of the Song of Deborah, that the Canaanite general Sisera ends up being murdered by a woman —the ultimate degradation—"is a further sign that Yahweh ultimately is responsible for the victory". [10]
Biblical scholar Michael Coogan further argues that the book contains specific details regarding certain subject matter (for example, Persian rule) which are historically inaccurate. For example, Coogan discusses an inaccuracy regarding the age of Esther's cousin (or, according to others, uncle) Mordecai.