The Bronze Bow is a book by Elizabeth George Speare that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1962.

The main character is a young Jew named Daniel bar Jamin who lives at the same time as Jesus of Nazareth.

His mother dies of grief after her husband's death, and Daniel's younger sister, Leah, is traumatized by these events, possessed by demons, and never leaves the house.

Daniel escapes his cruel master, running away to the mountains where he is found close to death and rescued by Rosh, the leader of an outlaw band of rebels, who plan to someday overthrow the Romans.

Several years after these events, Daniel meets people he used to know when he lived in Ketzah, Joel bar Hezron and his twin sister Malthace, who climbed the mountain for the holidays.

They only succeed because Samson, out of sacrificial love for Daniel, shows up and rolls a boulder down on the attacking Romans and then joins the fight.

At the time of the book's publication, Kirkus Reviews said: "The author succeeds admirably in re-entering the era and filling it with entirely human characters...

"[2] In a retrospective essay about the Newbery Medal-winning books from 1956 to 1965, librarian Carolyn Horovitz wrote of The Bronze Bow, Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, Rifles for Watie, and The Witch of Blackbird Pond: "All have value, all are told skilfully.

After critics alleged the book "glorified Jesus and vilified Jews", The Bronze Bow was removed from the social studies reading list of San Rafael City Schools in 2006.