2018.04.21. Auld, Life in Kings
A. Graeme Auld, Life in Kings: Reshaping the Royal Story in the Hebrew Bible
Reviewed by John W. Herbst
A. Graeme Auld, Life in Kings: Reshaping the Royal Story in the Hebrew Bible
Reviewed by John W. Herbst
Wilhelm Wrede, The Authenticity of the Second Letter to the Thessalonians
Reviewed by Rob van Houwelingen
Ian D. Wilson, Kingship and Memory in Ancient Judah
Reviewed by Jason Silverman
Saana Svärd, Women and Power in Neo-Assyrian Palaces
Reviewed by Laura Quick
Benjamin E. Reynolds and Loren T. Stuckenbruck, eds., The Jewish Apocalyptic Tradition and the Shaping of New Testament Thought
Reviewed by Greg Carey
Kar Yong Lim, Metaphors and Social Identity Formation in Paul’s Letters to the Corinthians
Reviewed by Christopher A. Porter
Mahri Leonard-Fleckman and Alice L. Laffey, Ruth
Reviewed by Terry Giles
James R. Harrison and L. L. Welborn, eds., The First Urban Churches 1: Methodological Foundations
Reviewed by Michelle Christian
Stephen Finlan, Sacrifice and Atonement: Psychological Motives and Biblical Patterns
Reviewed by Donald Senior
James D. Findlay, From Prophet to Priest: The Characterization of Aaron in the Pentateuch
Reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer
Cavan W. Concannon, “When You Were Gentiles”: Specters of Ethnicity in Roman Corinth and Paul’s Corinthian Correspondence
Reviewed by Love L. Sechrest
Stephen Westerholm and Martin Westerholm, Reading Sacred Scripture: Voices from the History of Biblical Interpretation
Reviewed by Christopher T. Holmes
Donald Dale Walker, Beyond the Obvious: Doorways to Understanding the New Testament
Reviewed by J. Andrew Doole
Kevin J. Vanhoozer and Daniel J. Treier, Theology and the Mirror of Scripture: A Mere Evangelical Account
Reviewed by Joel Stephen Williams
Samuel Byrskog, Tom Holmén, and Matti Kankaanniemi, eds., The Identity of Jesus: Nordic Voices
Reviewed by Eve-Marie Becker
Gay L. Byron and Vanessa Lovelace, eds., Womanist Interpretations of the Bible: Expanding the Discourse
Reviewed by Amanda Mbuvi
Ginny Brewer-Boydston, Good Queen Mothers, Bad Queen Mothers: The Theological Presentation of the Queen Mother in 1 and 2 Kings
Reviewed by Laura Quick
Julia Watts Belser, Power, Ethics, and Ecology in Jewish Late Antiquity: Rabbinic Responses to Drought and Disaster
Reviewed by Joshua Schwartz
David J. H. Beldman, The Completion of Judges: Strategies of Ending in Judges 17–21
Reviewed by Victor H. Matthews
Polymnia Athanassiadi, Mutations of Hellenism in Late Antiquity
Reviewed by Evgenia Moiseeva
Matthew Thiessen, Paul and the Gentile Problem
Reviewed by Nijay Gupta
Katharine E. Southwood, Marriage by Capture in the Book of Judges: An Anthropological Approach
Reviewed by George G. Nicol
Lidija Novakovic, Resurrection: A Guide for the Perplexed
Reviewed by Archie T. Wright
James D. Nogalski, The Book of the Twelve and Beyond: Collected Essays of James D. Nogalski
Reviewed by Soo J. Kim
Thomas J. Kraus and Michael Sommer, eds., Book of Seven Seals
Reviewed by Darius Müller
Robert Kitchen, trans.; George A. Kiraz, ed., The Book of Acts according to the Syriac Peshitta Version with English Translation
Reviewed by David A. Smith
Hermann Gunkel, Elijah, Yahweh, and Baal
Reviewed by Bálint Károly Zabán
Juan Manuel Granados Rojas, La teología de la reconciliación en las cartas de san Pablo
Reviewed by Thomas W. Hudgins
Florence M. Gillman, Mary Ann Beavis, and HyeRan Kim-Craag, 1–2 Thessalonians
Reviewed by Jennifer Houston McNeel
John H. Elliott, Beware the Evil Eye: The Evil Eye in the Bible and the Ancient World: Volume 4: Postbiblical Israel and Early Christianity through Late Antiquity
Reviewed by Nicole L. Tilford
Sarah S. U. Dixon, The Testimony of the Exalted Jesus in the Book of Revelation
Reviewed by Robyn Whitaker
Sebastian P. Brock and George A. Kiraz, Gorgias Concise Syriac-English, English-Syriac Dictionary
Reviewed by Lindsey A. Askin
Thomas Boomershine, The Messiah of Peace: A Performance-Criticism Commentary on Mark’s Passion-Resurrection Narrative
Reviewed by David Seal
Menahem Ben-Yashar and Jordan Penkower, The Bible in Rabbinic Interpretation: Rabbinic Derashot on Prophets and Writings in Talmudic and Midrashic Literature, Volume Two: Joel and Amos [Hebrew]
Reviewed by Joshua Schwartz
Peter Claver Ajer, The Death of Jesus and the Politics of Place in the Gospel of John
Reviewed by Gilberto A. Ruiz
Marion Ann Taylor and Christiana de Groot, eds., Women of War, Women of Woe: Joshua and Judges through the Eyes of Nineteenth-Century Female Biblical Interpreters
Reviewed by Susanne Scholz
Stefan Nordgaard, Possessions and Family in the Writings of Luke: Questioning the Unity of Luke's Ethics
Reviewed by Thomas E. Phillips
Karl Allen Kuhn, The Kingdom according to Luke and Acts: A Social, Literary, and Theological Introduction
Reviewed by Brian W. Bunnell
Hyun Chul Paul Kim, Reading Isaiah: A Literary and Theological Commentary
Reviewed by Torsten Uhlig
Jione Havea and Peter H. W. Lau, eds., Reading Ruth in Asia
Reviewed by Woo Min Lee
Robert H. Gundry, Peter: False Disciple and Apostate according to Saint Matthew
Reviewed by Sonya S. Cronin
Courtney Friesen, Reading Dionysus: Euripides' Bacchae and the Cultural Contestations of Greeks, Jews, Romans, and Christians
Reviewed by J. R. C. Cousland
Frank Dicken, Herod as a Composite Character in Luke-Acts
Reviewed by Alexander P. Thompson
John J. Collins, T. M. Lemos, Saul M. Olyan, eds., Worship, Women and War: Essays in Honor of Susan Niditch
Reviewed by Bob Becking
John J. Collins, The Invention of Judaism: Torah and Jewish Identity from Deuteronomy to Paul
Reviewed by Marvin A. Sweeney
Charlene van der Walt, Toward a Communal Reading of 2 Samuel 13: Ideology and Power within the Intercultural Bible Reading Process
Reviewed by Anne Létourneau
Dennis R. MacDonald, The Dionysian Gospel: The Fourth Gospel and Euripides
Reviewed by Jo-Ann A. Brant
Francis M. Macatangay, When I Die, Bury Me Well: Death, Burial, Almsgiving, and Restoration in the Book of Tobit
Reviewed by Micah D. Kiel
Christos Karakolis, Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr, and Sviatoslav Rogalsky, eds., Gospel Images of Jesus Christ in Church Tradition and in Biblical Scholarship: Fifth International East–West Symposium of New Testament Scholars, Minsk, September 2 to 9, 2010
Reviewed by Valeriy A. Alikin
Joel S. Kaminsky, Joel N. Lohr, and Mark Reasoner, The Abingdon Introduction to the Bible: Understanding Jewish and Christian Scriptures
Reviewed by Marcel V. Măcelaru
Yosef Garfinkel and Madeleine Mumcuoglu, Solomon’s Temple and Palace: New Archaeological Discoveries
Reviewed by Ralph K. Hawkins
Lewis R. Donelson, Pseudepigraphy and Ethical Argument in the Pastoral Epistles
Reviewed by Charles Bumgardner
Nathaniel P. DesRosiers and Lily C. Vuong, eds., Religious Competition in the Greco-Roman World
Reviewed by Evgenia Moiseeva
István Czachesz, Cognitive Science and the New Testament: A New Approach to Early Christian Research
Reviewed by L. Gregory Bloomquist
Aaron Chalmers, Interpreting the Prophets: Reading, Understanding and Preaching from the Worlds of the Prophets
Reviewed by Paul L. Redditt
Heidi Wendt, At the Temple Gates: The Religion of Freelance Experts in the Roman Empire
Reviewed by Timothy Luckritz Marquis
Margaret G. Sim, A Relevant Way to Read: A New Approach to Exegesis and Communication
Reviewed by Stephen Pattemore
Yoseop Ra, Q, the First Writing about Jesus
Reviewed by Sarah E. Rollens
Mark A. Leuchter and David T. Lamb, The Historical Writings: Introducing Israel's Historical Literature
Reviewed by Kyle Greenwood
Leander Keck, Why Christ Matters: Toward a New Testament Christology
Reviewed by Dieter T. Roth
C. D. Elledge, Resurrection of the Dead in Early Judaism: 200 BCE–CE 200
Reviewed by Joshua Schwartz
Bryan R. Dyer, Suffering in the Face of Death: The Epistle to the Hebrews and Its Context of Situation
Reviewed by Bryan J. Whitfield
John J. Collins, Introduction to the Hebrew Bible
Reviewed by Blake A. Jurgens
Ryan P. Bonfiglio, ed., A Study Companion to Introduction to the Hebrew Bible
Reviewed by Blake A. Jurgens