Tom Thatcher and Stephen D. Moore, eds., Anatomies of Narrative Criticism: The Past, Present, and Futures of the Fourth Gospel as Literature
Reviewed by Craig Koester
Guy G. Stroumsa, The End of Sacrifice: Religious Transformations in Late Antiquity
Reviewed by Joshua Schwartz
Hagith Sivan, Palestine in Late Antiquity
Reviewed by Steven Fine
Uwe-Karsten Plisch, The Gospel of Thomas: Original Text with Commentary
Reviewed by Christopher Tuckett
Vashti Murphy McKenzie, Swapping Housewives: Rachel and Jacob and Leah
Reviewed by Randall L. McKinion
Michael Kaler, Flora Tells a Story: The Apocalypse of Paul and Its Context
Reviewed by Tobias Nicklas
Linda B. Hall, Mary, Mother and Warrior: The Virgin in Spain and the Americas
Reviewed by Violeta Rocha
Richard James Fischer, Historical Genesis: From Adam to Abraham
Reviewed by Paul L. Chen
Carol Hupping, ed., The Jewish Bible: A JPS Guide
Reviewed by Gilbert Lozano
Joseph A. Fitzmyer, The One Who Is to Come
Reviewed by Francis Dalrymple-Hamilton
Göran Eidevall, Prophecy and Propaganda: Images of Enemies in the Book of Isaiah
Reviewed by Maire Byrne
T. E. Clontz and J. Clontz, eds., The Comprehensive New Testament
Reviewed by Alastair Haines
Roland Boer, Last Stop before Antarctica: The Bible and Postcolonialism in Australia
Reviewed by F. Rachel Magdalene
Alan Thompson, One Lord, One People: The Unity of the Church in Acts in Its Literary Setting
Reviewed by Bobby Kelly
Andrew Sloane, At Home in a Strange Land: Using the Old Testament in Christian Ethics
Reviewed by Andrew Davies
Herman J. Selderhuis, Calvin’s Theology of the Psalms
Reviewed by Randall McKinion
Werner Schmidt, Das Buch Jeremia: Kapitel 1–20
Reviewed by Wilhelm J. Wessels
Huub van de Sandt and Jürgen Zangenberg, eds., Matthew, James, and Didache: Three Related Documents in Their Jewish and Christian Settings
Reviewed by William Varner
Charles Puskas, The Conclusion of Luke-Acts: The Significance of Acts 28:16–31
Reviewed by Deborah Thompson Prince
Martin Mosse, The Three Gospels: New Testament History Introduced by the Synoptic Problem
Reviewed by Pheme Perkins
Pekka Lindqvist, Sin at Sinai: Early Judaism Encounters Exodus 32
Reviewed by James N. Rhodes
Nicola Laneri, ed., Performing Death: Social Analyses of Funerary Traditions in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean
Reviewed by Aren Maeir
Jörg Lanckau, Der Herr der Träume: Eine Studie zur Funktion des Traumes in der Josefsgeschichte der Hebräischen Bibel
Reviewed by Bart J. Koet
Billie Jean Collins, The Hittites and Their World
Reviewed by Dirk Paul Mielke
Brevard Childs, The Church’s Guide for Reading Paul: The Canonical Shaping of the Pauline Corpus
Reviewed by Paul E. Trainor
Rein Bos, We Have Heard That God Is with You: Preaching the Old Testament
Reviewed by Jordan M. Scheetz
Frank Yamada, Configurations of Rape in the Hebrew Bible: A Literary Analysis of Three Rape Narratives
Reviewed by Susanne Scholz
Lawrence M. Wills, Not God’s People: Insiders and Outsiders in the Biblical World
Reviewed by Lara van der Zee-Hanssen
David Wilhite, Tertullian the African: An Anthropological Reading of Tertullian’s Context and Identities
Reviewed by Ilaria L. E. Ramelli
David Sim and Boris Repschinski, eds., Matthew and His Christian Contemporaries
Reviewed by Glenna Jackson
Gershom M. H. Ratheiser, Mitzvoth Ethics and the Jewish Bible: The End of Old Testament Theology
Reviewed by Ben Ollenburger
Enno Edzard Popkes, Die Theologie der Liebe Gottes in den johanneischen Schriften: Zur Semantik der Liebe und zum Motivkreis des Dualismus
Reviewed by Jan G. van der Watt
Jonathan T. Pennington and Sean M. McDonough, Cosmology and New Testament Theology
Reviewed by Michael J. Lakey
Rachel Mairs and Alice Stevenson, eds., Current Research in Egyptology 2005: Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Symposium, University of Cambridge 2005
Reviewed by Roxana Flammini
Dietrich-Alex Koch, Hellenistisches Christentum: Schriftverständnis–Ekklesiologie–Geschichte
Reviewed by Friedrich Reiterer
Sandra Gravett, Karla Bohmbach, F. V. Greifenhagen, and Donald Polaski, An Introduction to the Hebrew Bible: A Thematic Approach
Reviewed by J. Dwayne Howell
Philip S. Alexander, The Targum of Lamentations: Translated, with a Critical Introduction, Apparatus, and Notes
Reviewed by Archie Wright
Lars Aejmelaeus and Antti Mustakallio, eds., The Nordic Paul: Finnish Approaches to Pauline Theology
Reviewed by Erik Heen
Kevin J. Vanhoozer, ed., Theological Interpretation of the New Testament: A Book-by-Book Survey
Reviewed by Erik Heen
Ilaria Ramelli and David Konstan, Terms for Eternity: Aiônios and Aïdios in Classical and Christian Texts
Reviewed by Jan G. van der Watt
Julia M. O’Brien, Challenging Prophetic Metaphor: Theology and Ideology in the Prophets
Reviewed by Bo H. Lim
Etienne Nodet, The Historical Jesus? Necessity and Limits of an Inquiry
Reviewed by James West
Alexander I. Negrov, Biblical Interpretation in the Russian Orthodox Church: A Historical and Hermeneutical Perspective
Reviewed by Peter Penner
Matthew J. Marohl, Faithfulness and the Purpose of Hebrews: A Social Identity Approach
Reviewed by Renate Viveen Hood
Julie Kelso, O Mother, Where Art Thou? An Irigarayan Reading of the Book of Chronicles
Reviewed by Susanne Scholz
William H. Jennings, Storms over Genesis: Biblical Battleground in America’s Wars of Religion
Reviewed by Michael D. Matlock
Joseph A. Fitzmyer, A Guide to the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature
Reviewed by Shayna Sheinfeld
Lori Anne Ferrell, The Bible and the People
Reviewed by Seán P. Kealy
F. Gerald Downing, God with Everything: The Divine in the Discourse of the First Christian Century
Reviewed by Michael Lakey
Ellen F. Davis, Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading of the Bible
Reviewed by Philip F. Esler
J. Edward Crowley and Paul L. Danove, The Rhetoric of Characterization of God, Jesus, and Jesus’ Disciples in the Gospel of Mark
Reviewed by Seán P. Kealy
L. Stephanie Cobb, Dying to Be Men: Gender and Language in Early Christian Martyr Texts
Reviewed by Jan Willem van Henten
Dan R. Stiver, Life Together in the Way of Jesus Christ: An Introduction to Christian Theology
Reviewed by Yolanda Dreyer
James M. Robinson, Jesus: According to the Earliest Witness
Reviewed by Petri Luomanen
Anita Norich and Yaron Z. Eliav, eds., Jewish Literatures and Cultures: Context and Intercontext
Reviewed by Joshua Schwartz
Marvin Meyer, Judas: The Definitive Collection of Gospels and Legends about the Infamous Apostle of Jesus
Reviewed by Philip Tite
Mark McEntire, Struggling with God: An Introduction to the Pentateuch
Reviewed by Lissa Wray Beal
Andrew T. Lincoln and Angus Paddison, eds., Christology and Scripture: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Reviewed by Douglas Campbell
Heidi J. Hornik and Mikeal C. Parsons, Illuminating Luke, Volume 3: The Passion and Resurrection Narratives in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Painting
Reviewed by Thomas E. Phillips
Axel Graupner and Michael Wolter, eds., Moses in Biblical and Extra-biblical Traditions
Reviewed by Hallvard Hagelia
Beverly Roberts Gaventa and Richard B. Hays, eds., Seeking the Identity of Jesus: A Pilgrimage
Reviewed by Mark Elliott
Daniel Durken, ed., The New Collegeville Bible Commentary: New Testament
Reviewed by Peter Judge
Lawrence DiPaolo Jr., Hymn Fragments Embedded in the New Testament: Hellenistic Jewish and Greco-Roman Parallels
Reviewed by Daniel Darko
Gregory Lee Cuéllar, Voices of Marginality: Exile and Return in Second Isaiah 40–55 and the Mexican Immigrant Experience
Reviewed by Timothy Sandoval
Augustine Casiday and Frederick W. Norris, The Cambridge History of Christianity, Volume 2: Constantine to c. 600
Reviewed by Paul Dilley
Richard Bauckham, The Jewish World around the New Testament: Collected Essays 1
Reviewed by Christoph Stenschke
Randall C. Bailey, Tat-siong Benny Liew, and Fernando F. Segovia, eds., They Were All Together in One Place? Toward Minority Biblical Criticism
Reviewed by Gerald West
Octavian D. Baban, On the Road Encounters in Luke-Acts: Hellenistic Mimesis and Luke’s Theology of the Way
Reviewed by Ron Clark