{{short description|American writer}} {{Infobox person | native_name = דוד ביווין | native_name_lang = he | image = | image_size = | name = David Bivin | birth_date = July 20, 1939 | birth_place = Cleveland, Oklahoma | occupation = Scholar | spouse = Josa Bivin <ref name="JP David N. Bivin">Jerusalem Perspective Online, "David Bivin." Jerusalem perspective. Retrieved 05 March, 2007. [http://www.jerusalemperspective.com/default.aspx?tabid=32]</ref> }}
'''David N. Bivin''' ({{Langx|he|דוד ביווין}}; 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,<ref>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/.</ref> after which it transitioned to an online-only distribution format.<ref>http://www.jerusalemperspective.com.</ref> Bivin serves as its publisher and editor.<ref name="About Jerusalem Perspective">{{cite web | title=About JP | website=JerusalemPerspective.com | url=https://www.jerusalemperspective.com/about-jp/ | access-date=1 June 2021}}</ref>
===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=== * {{cite book|author1-last=Bivin |author1-first=David |author2-last=Bivin |author2-first=Josa |title=Hebrew 40: translations, units 1-40 |location=Mount Zion, Israel |publisher=American Institute of Holy Land Studies |date=1972 }} * {{cite book|author1-last=Bivin |author1-first=David |author1-mask=3 |author2-last=Goldfarb |author2-first=Robert |author2-link=Robert Goldfarb |title=Fluent Biblical and Modern Hebrew |location=Jerusalem |publisher=The American Upland |date=1977 |oclc=4677922 }} * {{cite book|author1-last=Bivin |author1-first=David |author1-mask=3 |author2-last=Blizzard |author2-first=Roy B. |author2-link=Roy B. Blizzard |title=Understanding the Difficult Words of Jesus |location=Arcadia, CA |publisher=Makor Foundation |date=1983 |oclc=17532669 }} * {{cite book|author1-last=Bivin |author1-first=David |author1-mask=3 |author2-last=Tverberg |author2-first=Lois |author2-link=Lois Tverberg |author3-last=Okkema |author3-first=Bruce |author3-link=Bruce Okkema |title=New Light on the Difficult Words of Jesus: Insights from His Jewish Context |location=Holland, MI |publisher=En-Gedi Resource Center |date=2005 |isbn=9780974948225 |oclc=318198425 }} {{smaller|Although similar in title to {{harvtxt|Bivin|Blizzard|1983}}, it is substantially different in content. Much of the book was initially published in the journal ''Jerusalem Perspective''.}}
===Chapters=== * {{cite book|author1-last=Bivin |author1-first=David |author1-mask=3 |chapter=Evidence of an Editor's Hand in Two Instances of Mark's Account of Jesus' Last Week?" |editor1-last=Notley |editor1-first=R. Steven |editor1-link=R. Steven Notley |editor2-last=Turnage |editor2-first=Marc |editor2-link=Marc Turnage |editor3-last=Becker |editor3-first=Brian |editor3-link=Brian Becker (scholar) |title=Jesus' Last Week |series=Jerusalem studies in the Synoptic Gospels |volume=1 |location=Leiden |publisher=Brill |date=2006 |isbn=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== <references/>
==External links== * [http://www.jerusalemperspective.com/author/david-bivin/ Biography]
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