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Michael R. Whitenton, Configuring Nicodemus: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Complex Characterization
Reviewed by Christopher Seglenieks
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Reviewed by Christopher Seglenieks
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Reviewed by Martin C. Albl
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Donald W. Parry, Exploring the Isaiah Scrolls and Their Textual Variants
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Jeffrey J. Niehaus, When Did Eve Sin? The Fall and Biblical Historiography
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Edward L. Greenstein, Job: A New Translation
Reviewed by James L. Crenshaw
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John Binns, The T&T Clark History of Monasticism: The Eastern Tradition
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David Allen and Steve Smith, eds., Methodology in the Use of the Old Testament in the New: Context and Criteria
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Gerald L. Stevens, Acts: A New Vision of the People of God
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Thomas B. Slater, Revelation as Civil Disobedience: Witnesses Not Warriors in John’s Apocalypse
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