2016.08.40. Mermelstein, Creation, Covenant, and the Beginnings of Judaism
Ari Mermelstein, Creation, Covenant, and the Beginnings of Judaism: Reconceiving Historical Time in the Second Temple Period
Reviewed by Stewart Moore
Jennifer Houston McNeel, Paul as Infant and Nursing Mother: Metaphor, Rhetoric, and Identity in 1 Thessalonians 2:5–8
Reviewed by Trevor Burke
James R. McConnell Jr., The topos of Divine Testimony in Luke-Acts
Reviewed by Kyle R. Hughes
Michael Lyons, An Introduction to the Study of Ezekiel
Reviewed by J. Michael Thigpen
George A. Kiraz and Joseph Bali, eds.; Gillian Greenberg and Donald M. Walter, trans., Ezekiel according to the Syriac Peshitta Version with English Translation
Reviewed by Jerome A. Lund
Jonathan I. Griffiths, Hebrews and Divine Speech
Reviewed by Bryan J. Whitfield
Crispin Fletcher-Louis, Jesus Monotheism: Volume 1: Christological Origins: The Emerging Consensus and Beyond
Reviewed by Larry W. Hurtado
Rodney J. Decker, Mark 1–8: A Handbook on the Greek Text
Reviewed by J. Andrew Doole
Athalya Brenner-Idan, ed., Discourse, Dialogue, and Debate in the Bible: Essays in Honour of Frank H. Polak
Reviewed by Max Rogland
Jonathan Ben-Dov and Seth Sanders, eds., Ancient Jewish Sciences and the History of Knowledge in Second Temple Literature
Reviewed by John J. Collins
Mika S. Pajunen and Hanna Tervanotko, eds., Crossing Imaginary Boundaries: The Dead Sea Scrolls in the Context of Second Temple Judaism
Reviewed by Timothy H. Lim
Tricia Miller, Three Versions of Esther: Their Relationship to Anti-Semitic and Feminist Critique of the Story
Reviewed by Anne-Mareike Wetter
Raimo Hakola, Nina Nikki, and Ulla Tervahauta, eds., Others and the Construction of Early Christian Identities
Reviewed by Benjamin H. Dunning
Gregg E. Gardner, The Origins of Organized Charity in Rabbinic Judaism
Reviewed by Rivka Ulmer
Niclas Förster, Jesus und die Steuerfrage: Die Zinsgroschenperikope auf dem religiösen und politischen Hintergrund ihrer Zeit mit einer Edition von Pseudo-Hieronymus, De haeresibus Judaeorum
Reviewed by Stephan Witetschek
Thomas B. Dozeman, Craig A. Evans, and Joel N. Lohr, eds., The Book of Exodus: Composition, Reception, and Interpretation
Reviewed by Jeffrey L. Morrow
R. Alan Culpepper and Paul N. Anderson, eds., Communities in Dispute: Current Scholarship on the Johannine Epistles
Reviewed by Toan Do
Reviewed by Jan A. du Rand
Mark A. Chancey, Carol Meyers, and Eric M. Meyers, eds., The Bible in the Public Square: Its Enduring Influence in American Life
Reviewed by Jeffrey S. Siker
Sébastien B. Abalodo, Structure et théologie dans le Trito-Isaïe: Une contribution à l’unité du Livre
Reviewed by C. Y. Timothy Kao
Jaime L. Waters, Threshing Floors in Ancient Israel: Their Ritual and Symbolic Significance
Reviewed by Victor H. Matthews
Elaine M. Wainwright, The Gospel according to Matthew: The Basileia of the Heavens Is Near at Hand
Reviewed by Margaret Aymer
Carlos Raúl Sosa Siliezar, Creation Imagery in the Gospel of John
Reviewed by R. Alan Culpepper
Susanne Scholz, ed., Feminist Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in Retrospect II: Social Locations
Reviewed by Christina Landman
Safwat Marzouk, Egypt as a Monster in the Book of Ezekiel
Reviewed by Amy Kalmanofsky
Michael Lyons, An Introduction to the Study of Ezekiel
Reviewed by Corrine Carvalho
Jack R. Lundbom, Jeremiah: Prophet Like Moses
Reviewed by Leslie C. Allen
Paul M. Joyce and Dalit Rom-Shiloni, eds., The God Ezekiel Creates
Reviewed by J. Michael Thigpen
Matyáš Havrda, Vít Hušek, and Jana Plátová, eds., The Seventh Book of the Stromateis: Proceedings of the Colloquium on Clement of Alexandria (Olomouc, October 21–23, 2010)
Reviewed by Michael Harris
Garth Gilmour, Gezer VI: The Objects from Phases I and II (1964–1974)
Reviewed by Aren M. Maeir
Albert C. Geljon and Riemer Roukema, eds., Violence in Ancient Christianity: Victims and Perpetrators
Reviewed by Kimberly B. Stratton
Barat Ellman, Memory and Covenant: The Role of Israel’s and God’s Memory in Sustaining the Deuteronomic and Priestly Covenants
Reviewed by Rachelle Gilmour
Katie Edwards, Rethinking Biblical Literacy
Reviewed by Valarie H. Ziegler
Susannah Cornwall, ed., Intersex, Theology, and the Bible: Troubling Bodies in Church, Text, and Society
Reviewed by Teresa J. Hornsby
George Carraway, Christ Is God over All: Romans 9:5 in the Context of Romans 9–11
Reviewed by Charles L. Quarles
Walter Brueggemann; Davis Hankins, ed., Ice Axes for Frozen Seas: A Biblical Theology of Provocation
Reviewed by Joy A. Schroeder
Daniel Boyarin, A Traveling Homeland: The Babylonian Talmud as Diaspora
Reviewed by Christine Hayes
Roland Boer, The Sacred Economy of Ancient Israel
Reviewed by K. L. Noll
Ellen Bradshaw Aitken and John M. Fossey, eds., The Levant: Crossroads of Late Antiquity. History, Religion and Archaeology
Reviewed by Jürgen Zangenberg
Brittany E. Wilson, Unmanly Men: Refigurations of Masculinity in Luke-Acts
Reviewed by Colleen Conway
L. L. Welborn, Paul’s Summons to Messianic Life: Political Theology and the Coming Awakening
Reviewed by Robert L. Brawley
Reviewed by Alexandra Brown
Peter J. Tomson and Joshua Schwartz, eds., Jews and Christians in the First and Second Centuries: How to Write Their History
Reviewed by Philip R. Davies
Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer, Zechariah and His Visions: An Exegetical Study of Zechariah’s Vision Report
Reviewed by Albert M. Wolters
Michael J. Thate, Kevin J. Vanhoozer, and Constantine R. Campbell, eds., ‘In Christ’: Explorations in Paul’s Theology of Union and Participation
Reviewed by Robert R. Foster
Moshe Shamah, Recalling the Covenant: A Contemporary Commentary on the Five Books of the Torah
Reviewed by Ralph K. Hawkins
Konrad Schmid, Is There Theology in the Hebrew Bible?
Reviewed by John J. Collins
Volker Rabens, The Holy Spirit and Ethics in Paul: Transformation and Empowering for Religious-Ethical Life
Reviewed by Kenneth D. Litwak
Mark D. Nanos and Magnus Zetterholm, eds., Paul within Judaism: Restoring the First-Century Context to the Apostle
Reviewed by A. Chadwick Thornhill
Andrew Mein, Else K. Holt, Hyun Chul Paul Kim, eds., Concerning the Nations: Essays on the Oracles against the Nations in Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel
Reviewed by J. Michael Thigpen
Thierry Legrand and Jan Joosten, eds., The Targums in the Light of Traditions of the Second Temple Period
Reviewed by Simon Lasair
Paul-Gerhard Klumbies and David S. du Toit, eds., Paulus—Werk und Wirkung: Festschrift für Andreas Lindemann zum 70. Geburtstag
Reviewed by M. Eugene Boring
Robin M. Jensen and J. Patout Burns Jr., Christianity in Roman Africa: The Development of Its Practices and Beliefs
Reviewed by Allen Kerkeslager
Bo Isaksson and Maria Persson, eds., Clause Combining in Semitic: The Circumstantial Clause and Beyond
Reviewed by Frank H. Polak
John Harvey, The Bible as Visual Culture: When Text Becomes Image
Reviewed by Davina C. Lopez
Eric Douglass, Reading the Bible Ethically: Recovering the Voice in the Text
Reviewed by Walter Brueggemann
Joanna Dewey, The Oral Ethos of the Early Church: Speaking, Writing, and the Gospel of Mark
Reviewed by Werner H. Kelber
Sharon Betsworth, Children in Early Christian Narratives
Reviewed by A. James Murphy
Reviewed by Robert H. von Thaden Jr.
Robert W. Wall and David R. Nienhuis, eds., A Compact Guide to the Whole Bible: Learning to Read Scripture’s Story
Reviewed by Dirk G. van der Merwe
Sigmund Wagner-Tsukamoto, The Economics of Paradise: On the Onset of Modernity in Antiquity
Reviewed by Gerda de Villiers
Isaac S. D. Sassoon, The Status of Women in Jewish Tradition
Reviewed by Sarah Shectman
Erin Runions, The Babylon Complex: Theopolitical Fantasies of War, Sex, and Sovereignty
Reviewed by Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati
Paul Overland, Learning Biblical Hebrew Interactively
Reviewed by Jeremy M. Hutton
Eric F. Mason and Troy W. Martin, eds., Reading 1–2 Peter and Jude: A Resource for Students
Reviewed by Andrew M. Mbuvi
Adam Marshak, The Many Faces of Herod the Great
Reviewed by Erich S. Gruen
Jaeyoung Jeon, The Call of Moses and the Exodus Story: A Redactional-Critical Study in Exodus 3–4 and 5–13
Reviewed by Danny Mathews
Dennis Hamm, SJ, Philippians, Colossians, Philemon
Reviewed by Lynn H. Cohick
Reviewed by Roy R. Jeal
Randall X. Gauthier, Psalms 38 and 145 of the Old Greek Version
Reviewed by Phil J. Botha
John R. Donahue, Seek Justice That You May Live: Reflections and Resources on the Bible and Social Justice
Reviewed by Walter J. Houston
Stephen L. Cook, Reading Deuteronomy: A Literary and Theological Commentary
Reviewed by Timothy M. Willis
Marvin L. Chaney, Uriah Y. Kim, and Annette Schellenberg, eds., Reading a Tendentious Bible: Essays in Honor of Robert B. Coote
Reviewed by Stewart Moore