2017.01.53. Thurén, Parables Unplugged
Lauri Thurén, Parables Unplugged: Reading the Lukan Parables in Their Rhetorical Context
Reviewed by Dieter T. Roth
Lauri Thurén, Parables Unplugged: Reading the Lukan Parables in Their Rhetorical Context
Reviewed by Dieter T. Roth
Robert H. Stein, Jesus, the Temple and the Coming Son of Man: A Commentary on Mark 13
Reviewed by Andrew R. Angel
Tobias Nicklas, Jews and Christians? Second-Century ‘Christian’ Perspectives on the ‘Parting of the Ways’
Reviewed by Shira L. Lander
Teresa Morgan, Roman Faith and Christian Faith: Pistis and Fides in the Early Roman Empire and Early Churches
Reviewed by Jason A. Myers
Tung Chiew Ha, Biblical Narrative Learning: Teaching Adequate Faith in the Gospel of John
Reviewed by Akio Ito
Reviewed by Dirk van der Merwe
F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp, On Biblical Poetry
Reviewed by Benjamin D. Sommer
Kevin Corrigan and Tuomas Rasimus, eds., Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World: Essays in Honour of John D. Turner
Reviewed by Robert Joseph Morehouse
Ellen T. Charry, Psalms 1–50: Sighs and Songs of Israel
Reviewed by J. Clinton McCann Jr.
David Balch, Contested Ethnicities and Images: Studies in Acts and Arts
Reviewed by Eric D. Barreto
Michael Widmer, Standing in the Breach: An Old Testament Theology and Spirituality of Intercessory Prayer
Reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer
Brian Neil Peterson, John’s Use of Ezekiel: Understanding the Unique Perspective of the Fourth Gospel
Reviewed by Pieter de Vries
George L. Parsenios, First, Second, and Third John
Reviewed by Jan G. van der Watt
Manfred Oeming and Petr Sláma, eds., A King Like All the Nations? Kingdoms of Israel and Judah in the Bible and History
Reviewed by Joseph Price
Yoo Hong Min, Die Grundschrift des Ezechielbuches und ihre Botschaft
Reviewed by Sven Petry
Dayne S. Kalleres, City of Demons: Violence, Ritual, and Christian Power in Late Antiquity
Reviewed by J. Harold Ellens
Reviewed by Sarah Rollens
Christian Frevel, Geschichte Israels
Reviewed by Markus Witte
Ole Jakob Filtvedt, The Identity of God’s People and the Paradox of Hebrews
Reviewed by Nicholas Moore
Christian A. Eberhart, Kultmetaphorik und Christologie: Opfer- und Sühneterminologie im Neuen Testament
Reviewed by Jennifer W. Knust
Sonya Shetty Cronin, Raymond Brown, ‘The Jews,’ and the Gospel of John: From Apologia to Apology
Reviewed by R. Alan Culpepper
Bruce Clark, Completing Christ’s Afflictions: Christ, Paul, and the Reconciliation of All Things
Reviewed by Alexander E. Stewart
Davida H. Charney, Persuading God: Rhetorical Studies of First-Person Psalms
Reviewed by Philippus J. Botha
Samuel E. Balentine, Have You Considered My Servant Job? Understanding the Biblical Archetype of Patience
Reviewed by Jeffery M. Leonard
Kyle B. Wells, Grace and Agency in Paul and Second Temple Judaism: Interpreting the Transformation of the Heart
Reviewed by Don Garlington
Luigi Walt, Paolo e le parole di Gesù: Frammenti di un insegnamento orale
Reviewed by Ilaria L. E. Ramelli
Donald R. Vance, George Athas, and Yael Avrahami, Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia: A Reader’s Edition
Reviewed by Hubert Keener
John Van Seters, The Pentateuch: A Social-Science Commentary
Reviewed by Jean Louis Ska
Martin Stowasser, ed., Das Gottesbild in der Offenbarung des Johannes
Reviewed by Nils Neumann
Charles E. Shepherd, Theological Interpretation and Isaiah 53: A Critical Comparison of Bernhard Duhm, Brevard Childs, and Alec Motyer
Reviewed by J. Todd Hibbard
Victor H. Matthews, The Cultural World of the Bible: An Illustrated Guide to Manners and Customs
Reviewed by Tyler R. Yoder
Richard N. Longenecker, Paul, Apostle of Liberty
Reviewed by Panayotis Coutsoumpos
Justin Langford, Defending Hope: Semiotics and Intertextuality in 1 Peter
Reviewed by Katherine M. Hockey
Christine Hayes, What’s Divine about Divine Law? Early Perspectives
Reviewed by Joshua Schwartz
Andrew Gregory and Christopher Tuckett, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Apocrypha
Reviewed by Janet Spittler
Federico Giuntoli and Konrad Schmid, eds., The Post-Priestly Pentateuch: New Perspectives on Its Redactional Development and Theological Profiles
Reviewed by Ernst Axel Knauf
Terence E. Fretheim; Michael J. Chan and Brent A. Strawn, eds., What Kind of God? Collected Essays of Terence E. Fretheim
Reviewed by Carmen Imes
Simeon Chavel, Oracular Law and Priestly Historiography in the Torah
Reviewed by Benjamin D. Sommer
Meredith J. C. Warren, My Flesh Is Meat Indeed: A Nonsacramental Reading of John 6:51–58
Reviewed by Dana Robinson
Martin Vahrenhorst, Der erste Brief des Petrus
Reviewed by Torrey Seland
Pyung Soo Seo, Luke’s Jesus in the Roman Empire and the Emperor in the Gospel of Luke
Reviewed by Frank E. Dicken
Benjamin Sargent, Written To Serve: The Use of Scripture in 1 Peter
Reviewed by Abson Joseph
Reinhard Pummer, The Samaritans: A Profile
Reviewed by Monika Schreiber
David A. Lambert, How Repentance Became Biblical: Judaism, Christianity, and the Interpretation of Scripture
Reviewed by Dru Johnson
Antti Laato, Guide to Biblical Chronology
Reviewed by Ernst Axel Knauf
Michael Labahn and Outi Lehtipuu, eds., People under Power: Early Jewish and Christian Responses to the Roman Empire
Reviewed by Warren Carter
Walter J. Houston, Amos: Justice and Violence
Reviewed by Karl Möller
Gary G. Hoag, Wealth in Ancient Ephesus and the First Letter to Timothy: Fresh Insights from Ephesiaca by Xenophon of Ephesus
Reviewed by Susana de Sola Funsten
Friedhelm Hartenstein and Konrad Schmid, eds., Abschied von der Priesterschrift? Zum Stand der Pentateuchdebatte
Reviewed by David M. Carr
Jason M. H. Gaines, The Poetic Priestly Source
Reviewed by Frank H. Polak
John Eifion Morgan-Wynne, Paul’s Pisidian Antioch Speech: Acts 13
Reviewed by Lars Kierspel
Michal Beth Dinkler, Silent Statements: Narrative Representations of Speech and Silence in the Gospel of Luke
Reviewed by Mikeal C. Parsons
Daniel Lynwood Smith, Into the World of the New Testament: Greco-Roman and Jewish Texts and Contexts
Reviewed by Troy M. Troftgruben
V. George Shillington, An Introduction to the Study of Luke-Acts
Reviewed by James M. Morgan
Jeremy Schipper, Ruth: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary
Reviewed by George Savran
Adele Reinhartz, Caiaphas the High Priest
Reviewed by Arie W. Zwiep
Leo G. Perdue and Warren Carter; Coleman A. Baker, ed., Israel and Empire: A Postcolonial History of Israel and Early Judaism
Reviewed by Steed Vernyl Davidson
Donald W. Parry and Emanuel Tov, The Dead Sea Scrolls Reader, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded
Reviewed by Peter Porzig
Manfred Oeming and Konrad Schmid, Job’s Journey: Stations of Suffering
Reviewed by Katharine Dell
Alicia D. Myers and Bruce G. Schuchard, eds., Abiding Words: The Use of Scripture in the Gospel of John
Reviewed by Inhee C. Berg
Duane Litfin, Paul’s Theology of Preaching: The Apostle’s Challenge to the Art of Persuasion in Ancient Corinth
Reviewed by James W. Thompson
Richard Kalmin, Migrating Tales: The Talmud’s Narratives and Their Historical Context
Reviewed by Rivka Ulmer
Susan E. Hylen, A Modest Apostle: Thecla and the History of Women in the Early Church
Reviewed by Kate Wilkinson
Nancy L. deClaissé-Walford, ed., The Shape and Shaping of the Book of Psalms: The Current State of Scholarship
Reviewed by John E. Anderson
Miriam Bier, ‘Perhaps There Is Hope’: Reading Lamentations as a Polyphony of Pain, Penitence, and Protest
Reviewed by Amy C. Cottrill
David J. Zucker and Moshe Reiss, The Matriarchs of Genesis: Seven Women, Five Views
Reviewed by Robin Gallaher Branch
Adam White, Where Is the Wise Man? Graeco-Roman Education as a Background to the Divisions in 1 Corinthians 1–4
Reviewed by Bart J. Koet
Reviewed by H. H. Drake Williams III
Richard Walsh and Jay Twomey, eds., Borges and the Bible
Reviewed by Michelle Fletcher
Helmut Utzschneider and Wolfgang Oswald, Exodus 1–15
Reviewed by Danny Mathews
Steven Tuell, Reading Nahum–Malachi: A Literary and Theological Commentary
Reviewed by Michael H. Floyd
Jacob Thiessen and Harald Seubert, eds., Die Königsherrschaft Jahwes: Festschrift zur Emeritierung von Herbert H. Klement
Reviewed by Mark W. Hamilton
Steven J. Schweitzer and Frauke Uhlenbruch, eds., Worlds That Could Not Be: Utopia in Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah
Reviewed by Sean Burt