2014.03.24. Hendel, The Book of Genesis
Ronald Hendel, The Book of Genesis: A Biography
Reviewed by Bradford A. Anderson
Reviewed by Bill T. Arnold
Ronald Hendel, The Book of Genesis: A Biography
Reviewed by Bradford A. Anderson
Reviewed by Bill T. Arnold
Deryn Guest, Beyond Feminist Biblical Studies
Reviewed by Amelia Freedman
Francis A. Dalrymple-Hamilton, Breaking Through the Massoretic Barrier: A Re-consideration of the Old Greek Text of Job 24:13–20; 26:4–14; 28:13–22 and 30:25–31:8
Reviewed by Claude Cox
Marc Zvi Brettler, Peter Enns, and Daniel J. Harrington, The Bible and the Believer: How to Read the Bible Critically and Religiously
Reviewed by Rob Van Houwelingen
Ian Paul and David Wenham, eds., Preaching the New Testament
Reviewed by Jay Harrington
Tyler D. Mayfield, Literary Structure and Setting in Ezekiel
Reviewed by Richard G. Smith
Joseph A. Marchal, ed., Studying Paul’s Letters: Contemporary Perspectives and Methods
Reviewed by Brian J. Robinson
Magnar Kartveit, Rejoice, Dear Zion! Hebrew Construct Phrases with “Daughter” and “Virgin” as Nomen Regens
Reviewed by Peter Bekins
Tom Holmén, ed., Jesus in Continuum
Reviewed by Sarah E. Rollens
Kevin Corrigan and John D. Turner, eds., Plato’s Parmenides and Its Heritage, Volume 2: Reception in Patristic, Gnostic, and Christian Neoplatonic Texts
Reviewed by Thomas P. Nelligan
Kevin Corrigan and John D. Turner, eds., Plato’s Parmenides and Its Heritage, Volume 1: History and Interpretation from the Old Academy to Later Platonism and Gnosticism
Reviewed by Thomas P. Nelligan
Hans Ausloos and Bénédicte Lemmelijn, The Book of Life: Biblical Answers to Existential Questions
Reviewed by Jordan M. Scheetz
Alan Appelbaum, The Rabbis’ King-Parables: Midrash from the Third-Century Roman Empire
Reviewed by Rachel Adelman
Tzemah L. Yoreh, The First Book of God
Reviewed by Marvin A. Sweeney
James C. VanderKam, The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible
Reviewed by Don Garlington
Holger Strutwolf and Klaus Wachtel, eds., Novum Testamentum Graecum Editio Critica Maior, Parallelperikopen: Sonderband zu den synoptischen Evangelien
Reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus
Daniel Lynwood Smith, The Rhetoric of Interruption: Speech-Making, Turn-Taking, and Rule-Breaking in Luke-Acts and Ancient Greek Narrative
Reviewed by Alex Damm
Stanley E. Porter and Matthew R. Malcom, eds., Horizons in Hermeneutics: A Festschrift in Honor of Anthony C. Thiselton
Reviewed by Donald A. Hagner
Alissa Jones Nelson, Power and Responsibility in Biblical Interpretation: Reading the Book of Job with Edward Said
Reviewed by Peter-Ben Smit
Rubén Muñoz-Larrondo, A Postcolonial Reading of the Acts of the Apostles
Reviewed by Christina Petterson
Jason David BeDuhn, Augustine’s Manichaean Dilemma, Volume 2: Making a “Catholic” Self, 388–401 C.E.
Reviewed by Timothy Pettipiece
Robert Wafawanaka, Am I Still My Brother’s Keeper? Biblical Perspectives on Poverty
Reviewed by Timothy J. Sandoval
Amram Tropper, Simeon the Righteous in Rabbinic Literature: A Legend Reinvented
Reviewed by Joshua Schwartz
Heath A. Thomas, Jeremy Evans, and Paul Copan, eds., Holy War in the Bible: Christian Morality and an Old Testament Problem
Reviewed by Guenther Haas
C. A. Strine, Sworn Enemies: The Divine Oath, the Book of Ezekiel, and the Polemics of Exile
Reviewed by John T. Strong
Christopher A. Richardson, Pioneer and Perfecter of Faith: Jesus’ Faith as the Climax of Israel’s History in the Epistle to the Hebrews
Reviewed by Philip Church
Peter Yaw Oppong-Kumi, Matthean Sets of Parables
Reviewed by J. R. C. Cousland
Rivka Nir, Joseph and Aseneth: A Christian Book
Reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus
David A. deSilva, Global Readings: A Sri Lankan Commentary on Paul’s Letter to the Galatians
Reviewed by David S. Harvey
Bruce Chilton, Anthony Le Donne, and Jacob Neusner, eds., Soundings in the Religion of Jesus: Perspectives and Methods in Jewish and Christian Scholarship
Reviewed by Benjamin I. Simpson
Reviewed by Peter-Ben Smit
Greg Carey, The Gospel according to Luke: All Flesh Shall See God’s Salvation
Reviewed by Ernest van Eck
Rainer Albertz and Jakob Wöhrle, eds., Between Cooperation and Hostility: Multiple Identities in Ancient Judaism and the Interaction with Foreign Powers
Reviewed by Michael L. Satlow
Hayim Tadmor and Shigeo Yamada, The Royal Inscriptions of Tiglath-Pileser III (744-727 BC) and Shalmaneser V (726-722 BC), Kings of Assyria
Reviewed by Michael S. Moore
Eric W. Scherbenske, Canonizing Paul: Ancient Editorial Practice and the Corpus Paulinum
Reviewed by David Trobisch
Robin A. Parry and Heath A. Thomas, eds., Great Is Thy Faithfulness? Reading Lamentations as Sacred Scripture
Reviewed by Charles Miller
Yongbom Lee, The Son of Man as the Last Adam: The Early Church Tradition as a Source of Paul’s Adam Christology
Reviewed by Haley Goranson
Donald A. Hagner, The New Testament: A Historical and Theological Introduction
Reviewed by Moschos Goutzioudis
Reviewed by Nils Neumann
Karin Finsterbusch and Armin Lange, eds., What Is Bible?
Reviewed by Shraga Bar-On
J. Cheryl Exum, Plotted, Shot, and Painted: Cultural Representations of Biblical Women
Reviewed by Ginny Brewer-Boydston
John J. Collins and Daniel C. Harlow, eds., Early Judaism: A Comprehensive Overview
Reviewed by David M. Maas
John J. Collins, The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Biography
Reviewed by Eileen Schuller
Claire Clivaz, ed., Infancy Gospels: Stories and Identities
Reviewed by Tony Burke
Kay Weißflog, Zeichen und Sinnbilder: Die Kinder der Propheten Jesaja und Hosea
Reviewed by Mark W. Hamilton
Jerry L. Sumney, ed., Reading Paul’s Letter to the Romans
Reviewed by Panayotis Coutsoumpos
Reviewed by John K. Goodrich
Jerome Murphy-O’Connor, Keys to Galatians: Collected Essays
Reviewed by Frank J. Matera
Eugene E. Lemcio, Navigating Revelation: Charts for the Voyage
Reviewed by Alexander E. Stewart
Ernst Jenni, Studien zur Sprachwelt des Alten Testaments, Bd. 3
Reviewed by Markus Zehnder
J. Albert Harrill, Paul the Apostle: His Life and Legacy in Their Roman Context
Reviewed by James Harrison
Reviewed by Ross P. Ponder
Eryl W. Davies, Biblical Criticism: A Guide for the Perplexed
Reviewed by Richard N. Soulen
Lukas Bormann, Der Brief des Paulus an die Kolosser
Reviewed by Thomas Bergholz
Jozef Tiňo, King and Temple in Chronicles: A Contextual Approach to Their Relations
Reviewed by César Melgar
Jonathan Stökl, Prophecy in the Ancient Near East: A Philological and Sociological Comparison
Reviewed by J. H. Price
Peter Spitaler, ed., Celebrating Paul: Festschrift in Honor of Jerome Murphy-O’Connor, O.P., and Joseph A. Fitzmyer, S.J.
Reviewed by Nijay K. Gupta
Ludger Schwienhorst-Schönberger and Elisabeth Birnbaum, Das Buch Kohelet
Reviewed by Detlef Dieckmann
Hanna Liss and Manfred Oeming, eds., Literary Construction of Identity in the Ancient World: Proceedings of the Conference Literary Fiction and the Construction of Identity in Ancient Literatures: Options and Limits of Modern Literary Approaches in the Exegesis of Ancient Texts, Heidelberg, July 10–13, 2006
Reviewed by Jean-François Racine
Jens Kamlah, ed., Temple Building and Temple Cult: Architecture and Cultic Paraphernalia of Temples in the Levant (2.–1. Mill. B.C.E.). Proceedings of a Conference on the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Institute of Biblical Archaeology at the University of Tübingen (28th–30th of May 2010)
Reviewed by Jeffrey L. Morrow
Christine Hayes, Introduction to the Bible
Reviewed by James Bos
Jaco Gericke, The Hebrew Bible and Philosophy of Religion
Reviewed by Steven Dunn
Zev Garber, ed., The Jewish Jesus: Revelation, Reflection, Reclamation
Reviewed by J. Edward Wright
Wendy J. Cotter, The Christ of the Miracle Stories: Portrait through Encounter
Reviewed by Teresa Okure
Michael Smith and Rami Shapiro, Mount and Mountain, Volume 1: A Reverend and a Rabbi Talk about the Ten Commandments
Reviewed by William Rutherford
Phillip Michael Sherman, Babel’s Tower Translated: Genesis 11 and Ancient Jewish Interpretation
Reviewed by Bradley Embry
Stephen D. Moore and Yvonne Sherwood, The Invention of the Biblical Scholar: A Critical Manifesto
Reviewed by Matthew V. Novenson
Dominik Markl, Gottes Volk im Deuteronomium
Reviewed by Simone Paganini
Rolf A. Jacobson and Karl N. Jacobson, Invitation to the Psalms: A Reader’s Guide for Discovery and Engagement
Reviewed by David Firth