Review of Biblical Literature Blog: 2008

2008.12.17

Ben Witherington III, The Letters to Philemon, the Colossians, and the Ephesians: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary on the Captivity Epistles
Reviewed by Timothy Gombis

2008.12.16

Sigve K. Tonstad, Saving God’s Reputation: The Theological Function of Pistis Iesou in the Cosmic Narratives of Revelation
Reviewed by Tobias Nicklas

2008.12.15

J. Samuel Subramanian, The Synoptic Gospels and the Psalms as Prophecy
Reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus
Reviewed by Edward J. Mills III

2008.12.09

Ilana Pardes, Melville’s Bibles
Reviewed by Mark Elliott

2008.12.08

Mary E. Mills, Alterity, Pain, and Suffering in Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel
Reviewed by Hallvard Hagelia

2008.12.07

Nikolaos Lazaridis, Wisdom in Loose Form: The Language of Egyptian and Greek Proverbs in Collections of the Hellenistic and Roman Periods
Reviewed by John S. Kloppenborg

2008.12.06

Hans-Josef Klauck, Ancient Letters and the New Testament: A Guide to Context and Exegesis
Reviewed by Matthew D. Montonini

2008.12.05

Christiana de Groot and Marion Ann Taylor, eds., Recovering Nineteenth-Century Women Interpreters of the Bible
Reviewed by Caryn A. Reeder

2008.12.04

Robert P. Gordon, The God of Israel
Reviewed by Ben C. Ollenburger

2008.12.03

Paul Foster, ed., The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers
Reviewed by Taras Khomych

2008.12.02

Lutz Edzard and Jan Retsö, eds., Current Issues in the Analysis of Semitic Grammar and Lexicon I: Oslo-Göteborg Cooperation 3rd–5th June 2004; II: Oslo-Göteborg Cooperation 4th–5th November 2005
Reviewed by Frederick E. Greenspahn

2008.12.01

Ignacio Carbajosa and Luis Sánchez Navarro, eds., Entrar en lo antiguo: Acerca de la relación entre Antiguo y Nuevo Testamento
Reviewed by David Creech

2008.11.48

Géza G. Xeravits and József Zsengellér, eds., The Book of Maccabees: History, Theology, Ideology (Papers of the Second International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books, Pápa, Hungary, 9–11 June, 2005)
Reviewed by Pierre Keith

2008.11.47

Jan G. van der Watt, ed., Identity, Ethics, and Ethos in the New Testament
Reviewed by H. H. Drake Williams III

2008.11.46

Matthew B. Schwartz and Kalman J. Kaplan, The Fruit of Her Hands: A Psychology of Biblical Woman
Reviewed by Corinne Blackmer

2008.11.45

David R. Nienhuis, Not by Paul Alone: The Formation of the Catholic Epistle Collection and the Christian Canon
Reviewed by Patrick J. Hartin

2008.11.44

Adriane B. Leveen, Memory and Tradition in the Book of Numbers
Reviewed by James W. Watts

2008.11.43

Paul Joyce, Ezekiel: A Commentary
Reviewed by Corrine Carvalho
Reviewed by Steven S. Tuell

2008.11.42

Richard A. Horsley, Scribes, Visionaries, and the Politics of Second Temple Judea
Reviewed by Lester L. Grabbe

2008.11.41

Deborah L. Ellens, Women in the Sex Texts of Leviticus and Deuteronomy: A Comparative Conceptual Analysis
Reviewed by Naomi Steinberg

2008.11.40

Nicola Denzey, The Bone Gatherers: The Lost Worlds of Early Christian Women
Reviewed by Paul Dilley

2008.11.39

Stephen K. Catto, Reconstructing the First-Century Synagogue: A Critical Analysis of Current Research
Reviewed by Birger Olsson
Reviewed by Jonathan Bernier

2008.11.38

Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch, Studying the Old Testament: A Companion
Reviewed by Steed Vernyl Davidson

2008.11.37

Susan Brayford, Genesis
Reviewed by Jan Joosten

2008.11.36

Roland Boer, ed., Bakhtin and Genre Theory in Biblical Studies
Reviewed by Timothy J. Sandoval

2008.11.35

Jason Beduhn and Paul Mirecki, eds., Frontiers of Faith: The Christian Encounter with Manichaeism in the Acts of Archelaus
Reviewed by Tobias Nicklas

2008.11.34

Bob Becking, From David to Gedaliah: The Book of Kings as Story and History
Reviewed by Marvin A. Sweeney

2008.11.33

Hector Avalos, Fighting Words: The Origins of Religious Violence
Reviewed by J. Harold Ellens

2008.11.32

Jürgen Zangenberg, Harold W. Attridge, and Dale B. Martin, eds., Religion, Ethnicity and Identity in Ancient Galilee: A Region in Transition
Reviewed by Christoph Stenschke

2008.11.31

Ben Zion Wacholder, The New Damascus Document: The Midrash on the Eschatological Torah of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Reconstruction, Translation and Commentary
Reviewed by Gregory L. Doudna

2008.11.30

Emily Teeter and Douglas J. Brewer, Egypt and the Egyptians
Reviewed by Roxana Flammini

2008.11.29

Fred Strickert, Rachel Weeping: Jews, Christians, and Muslims at the Fortress Tomb
Reviewed by Samuel Thomas

2008.11.28

Daniel A. Smith, The Post-Mortem Vindication of Jesus in the Sayings Gospel Q
Reviewed by William Arnal

2008.11.27

Jens Kreinath, Jan Snoek, and Michael Stausberg
Theorizing Rituals: Issues, Topics, Approaches, Concepts, Annotated Bibliography
Reviewed by Brian B. Schmidt

2008.11.26

Brad E. Kelle and Megan Bishop Moore
Israel’s Prophets and Israel’s Past: Essays on the Relationship of Prophetic Texts and Israelite History in Honor of John H. Hayes
Reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer

2008.11.25

Katherine J. Dell, Opening the Old Testament
Reviewed by Bill T. Arnold
Reviewed by George Heider

2008.11.24

Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan, The Last Week: A Day-by-Day Account of Jesus’s Final Week in Jerusalem
Reviewed by Craig L. Blomberg

2008.11.23

Ward Blanton, Displacing Christian Origins: Philosophy, Secularity, and the New Testament
Reviewed by Clare K. Rothschild

2008.11.22

Hector Avalos, The End of Biblical Studies
Reviewed by Ulrich H. J. Körtner

2008.11.21

Gary Yamasaki, Watching a Biblical Narrative: Point of View in Biblical Exegesis
Reviewed by David R. Bauer
Reviewed by Helmut Utzschneider

2008.11.20

Claus Wilcke, ed., Das geistige Erfassen der Welt im Alten Orient: Sprache, Religion, Kultur und Gesellschaft
Reviewed by David Weisberg

2008.11.19

John S. Vassar, Recalling a Story Once Told: An Intertextual Reading of the Psalter and the Pentateuch
Reviewed by Philippus J. Botha

2008.11.18

Marvin A. Sweeney, I and II Kings: A Commentary
Reviewed by Ernst Axel Knauf

2008.11.17

David E. S. Stein, ed., The Contemporary Torah: A Gender-Sensitive Adaptation of the JPS Translation
Reviewed by Linda S. Schearing

2008.11.16

Klyne R. Snodgrass, Stories with Intent: A Comprehensive Guide to the Parables of Jesus
Reviewed by Ernest van Eck

2008.11.15

Alexander Samely, Forms of Rabbinic Literature and Thought: An Introduction
Reviewed by Joshua Schwartz

2008.11.14

Ela Nutu, Incarnate Word, Inscribed Flesh: John’s Prologue and the Postmodern
Reviewed by Larry D. George

2008.11.13

Sarianna Metso, The Serekh Texts
Reviewed by Ian Werrett

2008.11.12

Frank J. Matera, New Testament Theology: Exploring Diversity and Unity
Reviewed by Udo Schnelle

2008.11.11

Grant Macaskill, Revealed Wisdom and Inaugurated Eschatology in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity
Reviewed by Brian Han Gregg

2008.11.10

Theo A. W. van der Louw, Transformations in the Septuagint: Towards an Interaction of Septuagint Studies and Translation Studies
Reviewed by Francis Dalrymple-Hamilton

2008.11.09

Andrew T. Lincoln and Angus Paddison, eds., Christology and Scripture: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Reviewed by Mark Elliott

2008.11.08

Thomas L. Leclerc, Introduction to the Prophets: Their Stories, Sayings, and Scrolls
Reviewed by Bo H. Lim

2008.11.07

H. Klinkott, S. Kubisch, and R. Müller-Wollermann, eds., Geschenke und Steuern, Zölle und Tribute: Antike Abgabenformen in Anspruch und Wirklichkeit
Reviewed by Mark W. Hamilton

2008.11.06

Alec Gilmore, A Concise Dictionary of Bible Origins and Interpretation
Reviewed by Jan G. van der Watt

2008.11.05

Robert R. Ellis, Learning to Read Biblical Hebrew: An Introductory Grammar
Reviewed by Max Rogland

2008.11.04

Donald Capps, Jesus the Village Psychiatrist
Reviewed by Pieter F. Craffert

2008.11.03

David A. Brondos, Fortress Introduction to Salvation and the Cross
Reviewed by Ron Clark

2008.11.02

Paul Barnett, Paul: Missionary of Jesus
Reviewed by Don Garlington

2008.11.01

Kevin L. Anderson, ‘But God Raised Him from the Dead’: The Theology of Jesus’ Resurrection in Luke-Acts
Reviewed by Ron Clark

RBL Newsletter, 13 October 2008

The following new reviews have been added to the Review of Biblical Literature.

Edward Adams, The Stars Will Fall from Heaven: Cosmic Catastrophe in the New Testament and Its World
Reviewed by Lorenzo DiTommaso

William Sanger Campbell, The “We” Passages in the Acts of the Apostles: The Narrator as Narrative Character
Reviewed by Jean-François Racine

Andrew D. Clarke, A Pauline Theology of Church Leadership
Reviewed by Stephan Joubert

Benjamin Fiore, The Pastoral Epistles: First Timothy, Second Timothy, and Titus
Reviewed by Korinna Zamfir

Bas ter Haar Romeny, ed., The Peshitta: Its Use in Literature and Liturgy: Papers Read at the Third Peshitta Symposium
Reviewed by Robert A. Kitchen

Daniel Hillel, The Natural History of the Bible: An Environmental Exploration of the Hebrew Scriptures
Reviewed by Norman Habel

Werner G. Jeanrond and Andrew D. H. Mayes, eds., Recognising the Margins: Developments in Biblical and Theological Studies
Reviewed by Peter R. Rodgers

Matthew Levering, Ezra and Nehemiah
Reviewed by Ralph W. Klein

Graham S. Ogden, Qoheleth
Reviewed by Ludger Schwienhorst-Schönberger

R. J. R. Plant, Good Figs, Bad Figs: Judicial Differentiation in the Book of Jeremiah
Reviewed by Mark Brummitt

Fernando F. Segovia and R. S. Sugirtharajah, eds., A Postcolonial Commentary on the New Testament Writings
Reviewed by Jonathan A. Draper
Reviewed by Hans Leander

Robert B. Stewart, ed., Intelligent Design: William A. Dembski and Michael Ruse in Dialogue
Reviewed by Christopher Heard

Ilse Wegner, Eine Einführung in die hurritische Sprache
Reviewed by Ignacio Marquez Rowe

Stephen Westerholm, Understanding Matthew: The Early Christian Worldview of the First Gospel
Reviewed by David C. Sim

RBL Newsletter, 3 October 2008

The following new reviews have been added to the Review of Biblical Literature.

Andrew Bernhard, Other Early Christian Gospels: A Critical Edition of the Surviving Greek Manuscripts
Reviewed by Christopher Tuckett

Augusto Cosentino, Il battesimo gnostico: Dottrine, simboli e riti iniziatici nello gnosticismo
Reviewed by Birger A. Pearson

Katharine J. Dell, The Book of Proverbs in Social and Theological Context
Reviewed by Dorothy Akoto

Karin Finsterbusch, Armin Lange, and K.F. Diethard Römheld, eds., Human Sacrifice in Jewish and Christian Tradition
Reviewed by James W. Watts

Joel B. Green, 1 Peter
Reviewed by Paul J. Achtemeier

John Paul Hozvicka, A Primer on Biblical Studies
Reviewed by John Vassar

Steven L. McKenzie and John Kaltner, The Old Testament: Its Background, Growth, and Content
Reviewed by Francis Dalrymple-Hamilton

Daniel Patte, ed., Global Bible Commentary
Reviewed by Alexander Negrov

Finny Philip, The Origins of Pauline Pneumatology: The Eschatological Bestowal of the Spirit upon Gentiles in Judaism and in the Early Development of Paul’s Theology
Reviewed by Justin K. Hardin

Aicha Rahmouni; J. N. Ford, trans., Divine Epithets in the Ugaritic Alphabetic Texts
Reviewed by James R. Getz Jr.

Varda Sussman, Oil-Lamps in the Holy Land: Saucer Lamps: From the Beginning to the Hellenistic Period: Collections of the Israel Antiquities Authority
Reviewed by Noam Adler

Ben Witherington III, Matthew
Reviewed by David C. Sim

RBL Newsletter, 26 September 2008

The following new reviews have been added to the Review of Biblical Literature.

Craig D. Allert, A High View of Scripture? The Authority of the Bible and the Formation of the New Testament Canon
Reviewed by Garwood P. Anderson

Philip R. Amidon, Philostorgius: Church History
Reviewed by Alanna M. Nobbs

Stephen Bertman, Handbook to Life in Ancient Mesopotamia
Reviewed by Aren M. Maeir

Sebastian P. Brock, The Wisdom of St. Isaac of Nineveh
Reviewed by Lucas Van Rompay

Michael J. Gorman, Reading Paul
Reviewed by Stephen Finlan

Joseph H. Hellerman, Jesus and the People of God: Reconfiguring Ethnic Identity
Reviewed by Vernon Robbins

Christophe Nihan, From Priestly Torah to Pentateuch: A Study in the Composition of the Book of Leviticus
Reviewed by Jeffrey Stackert

Barbara E. Reid, Taking up the Cross: New Testament Interpretations through Latina and Feminist Eyes
Reviewed by Mary J. Marshall

Bernard Renaud, «Proche est ton Nom»: De la révélation à l'invocation du Nom de Dieu
Reviewed by Jean-Paul Michaud

Joseph B. Soloveitchik; David Shatz, Joel B. Wolowelsky, and Reuven Ziegler, eds., Abraham’s Journey: Reflections on the Life of the Founding Patriarch
Reviewed by Dan W. Clanton Jr.

RBL Newsletter, 13 September 2008

The following new reviews have been added to the Review of Biblical Literature.

Frederick E. Brenk, With Unperfumed Voice: Studies in Plutarch, in Greek Literature, Religion and Philosophy, and in the New Testament Background
Reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus

James H. Charlesworth, ed., The Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls: The Second Princeton Symposium on Judaism and Christian Origins
Reviewed by Matthew Goff

Zeba A. Crook and Philip A. Harland, eds., Identity and Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean: Jews, Christians and Others: Essays in Honour of Stephen G. Wilson
Reviewed by Thomas W. Gillespie

Rodney J. Decker, Koine Greek Reader: Selections from the New Testament, Septuagint, and Early Christian Writers
Reviewed by Pierre Johan Jordaan

Simcha Fishbane, Deviancy in Early Rabbinic Literature: A Collection of Socio-Anthropological Essays
Reviewed by Mayer I. Gruber

Mark W. Hamilton, Thomas H. Olbricht, and Jeffrey Peterson, eds., Renewing Tradition: Studies in Texts and Contexts in Honor of James W. Thompson
Reviewed by Nathan Guy

Renate Jost, Gender, Sexualität und Macht in der Anthropologie des Richterbuches
Reviewed by Trent Butler

Matthew Kraus, How Should Rabbinic Literature Be Read in the Modern World?
Reviewed by Joshua Schwartz

Larry J. Kreitzer, Hierapolis in the Heavens: Studies in the Letter to the Ephesians
Reviewed by Daniel Darko
Reviewed by Stephan Witetschek

Xabier Pikaza, Diccionario de la Biblia: Historia y Palabra
Reviewed by Daniel Bonilla-Rios

Roger Ryan, Judges
Reviewed by Victor H. Matthews

Daniel L. Smith-Christopher, Jonah, Jesus, and Other Good Coyotes: Speaking Peace to Power in the Bible
Reviewed by Hector Avalos

Nili Wazana, All the Boundaries of the Land: The Promised Land in Biblical Thought in Light of the Ancient Near East [Hebrew]
Reviewed by Shalom E. Holtz

B. F. Westcott and F. J. A. Hort, The Greek New Testament with Dictionary
Reviewed by Allan J. McNicol

RBL Newsletter, 5 September 2008

The following new reviews have been added to the Review of Biblical Literature.

Stephen C. Barton, ed., Idolatry: False Worship in the Bible, Early Judaism and Christianity
Reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus

Jon L. Berquist, ed., Approaching Yehud: New Approaches to the Study of the Persian Period
Reviewed by Ernst Axel Knauf

Kent E. Brower and Andy Johnson, eds., Holiness and Ecclesiology in the New Testament
Reviewed by James M. Howard

David B. Capes, Rodney Reeves, and E. Randolph Richards, Rediscovering Paul: An Introduction to His World, Letters, and Theology
Reviewed by Rodrigo J. Morales

Paul M. Fullmer, Resurrection in Mark’s Literary-Historical Perspective
Reviewed by Pheme Perkins

John Alan Halloran, ed., Sumerian Lexicon: A Dictionary Guide to the Ancient Sumerian Language
Reviewed by John Engle

Edith M. Humphrey, ed., And I Turned to See the Voice: The Rhetoric of Vision in the New Testament
Reviewed by Bart J. Koet

David J. Lull, 1 Corinthians
Reviewed by Anthony C. Thiselton

Steve Moyise and Maarten J. J. Menken, eds., Deuteronomy in the New Testament: The New Testament and the Scriptures of Israel
Reviewed by Michael A. Lyons
Reviewed by David Lincicum

Stanley E. Porter, ed., Paul and His Opponents
Reviewed by Justin K. Hardin

Dagmar Pruin, Geschichten und Geschichte: Isebel als literarische und historische Gestalt
Reviewed by Claudia D. Bergmann

Magnus Riska, The House of the Lord: A Study of the Temple Scroll Columns 29:3b–47:18
Reviewed by George J. Brooke

Norman Solomon, Richard Harries, and Tim Winter, eds., Abraham’s Children: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Conversation
Reviewed by Joel N. Lohr

K. Lawson Younger Jr., ed., Ugarit at Seventy-Five
Reviewed by Aren M. Maeir

RBL Newsletter, 27 August 2008

The following new reviews have been added to the Review of Biblical Literature.

Michael F. Bird, The Saving Righteousness of God: Studies on Paul, Justification and the New Perspective
Reviewed by Martin Meiser

William P. Brown, ed., Engaging Biblical Authority: Perspectives on the Bible as Scripture
Reviewed by Craig L. Blomberg

Reta Halteman Finger, Of Widows and Meals: Communal Meals in the Book of Acts
Reviewed by Steve Walton

Ronald E. Heine, Reading the Old Testament with the Ancient Church: Exploring the Formation of Early Christian Thought
Reviewed by Martin C. Albl

Alastair Hunter, Wisdom Literature
Reviewed by Jurie le Roux

Joel S. Kaminsky, Yet I Loved Jacob: Reclaiming the Biblical Concept of Election
Reviewed by B. J. Oropeza

James A. Metzger, Consumption and Wealth in Luke’s Travel Narrative
Reviewed by Kenneth Litwak

Mareike Rake, “Juda wird aufsteigen!”: Untersuchungen zum ersten Kapitel des Richterbuches
Reviewed by Klaas Spronk

Ruth Anne Reese, 2 Peter and Jude
Reviewed by Wilhelm Pratscher

David M. Scholer, ed., Social Distinctives of the Christians in the First Century: Pivotal Essays by E. A. Judge
Reviewed by Tsalampouni Ekaterini

Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok: Psykologi och Exegetik
Reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer

RBL Newsletter, 15 August 2008

The following new reviews have been added to the Review of Biblical Literature.

Paul J. Achtemeier, Jesus and the Miracle Tradition
Reviewed by Michael Labahn

Roland Boer, ed., Bakhtin and Genre Theory in Biblical Studies
Reviewed by David W. Williams

Maria Brutti, The Development of the High Priesthood during the Pre-Hasmonean Period: History, Ideology, Theology
Reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer

Lester L. Grabbe, Ancient Israel: What Do We Know and How Do We Know It?
Reviewed by Brian B. Schmidt

Leslie Houlden, ed., Decoding Early Christianity: Truth and Legend in the Early Church
Reviewed by Robert M. Bowman Jr.

Karen L. King, The Secret Revelation of John
Reviewed by Francis Dalrymple-Hamilton

Sarianna Metso, The Serekh Texts
Reviewed by Eric F. Mason

Douglas E. Oakman, Jesus and the Peasants
Reviewed by Ernest van Eck

Richard Liong-Seng Phua, Idolatry and Authority: A Study of 1 Corinthians 8.1–11.1 in the Light of the Jewish Diaspora
Reviewed by Scott E. McClelland

Tom Thatcher, ed., What We Have Heard from the Beginning: The Past, Present, and Future of Johannine Studies
Reviewed by Cornelis Bennema

Nancy M. Tischler, Thematic Guide to Biblical Literature
Reviewed by Gerbern Oegema

Valerie M. Warrior, Roman Religion
Reviewed by Honora Howell Chapman

Francis Watson, Paul, Judaism, and the Gentiles: Beyond the New Perspective
Reviewed by James D. G. Dunn

RBL Newsletter, 6 August 2008

The following new reviews have been added to the Review of Biblical Literature.

Efrain Agosto, Servant Leadership: Jesus and Paul
Reviewed by Stephan Joubert

L. William Countryman, Dirt, Greed, and Sex: Sexual Ethics in the New Testament and Their Implications for Today
Reviewed by Will Deming

April D. DeConick, The Thirteenth Apostle: What the Gospel of Judas Really Says
Reviewed by Arie W. Zwiep

William Loader, Enoch, Levi, and Jubilees on Sexuality: Attitudes towards Sexuality in the Early Enoch Literature, the Aramaic Levi Document, and the Book of Jubilees
Reviewed by Jessica Tinklenberg deVega

Meir Lubetski, ed., New Seals and Inscriptions, Hebrew, Idumean and Cuneiform
Reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer

Jill Middlemas, The Templeless Age: An Introduction to the History, Literature, and Theology of the Exile
Reviewed by Lester L. Grabbe

Joy A. Schroeder, Dinah’s Lament: The Biblical Legacy of Sexual Violence in Christian Interpretation
Reviewed by Yael Shemesh
Reviewed by Ron Clark

Oskar Skarsaune and Reidar Hvalvik, eds., Jewish Believers in Jesus
Reviewed by Elizabeth Boddens Hosang and Bart J. Koet

Kimberly B. Stratton, Naming the Witch: Magic, Ideology, and Stereotype in the Ancient World
Reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus

RBL Newsletter, 23 July 2008

The following new reviews have been added to the Review of Biblical Literature.

Roland Boer, Rescuing the Bible
Reviewed by D. A. Carson

April D. DeConick, The Thirteenth Apostle: What the Gospel of Judas Really Says
Reviewed by Stephan Witetschek

John H. Elliott, 1 Peter: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary
Reviewed by Pheme Perkins

Jane DeRose Evans, The Coins and the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Economy of Palestine
Reviewed by Mark R. Fairchild

Albert V. Garcilazo, The Corinthian Dissenters and the Stoics
Reviewed by Stephan Joubert

Suzanne Watts Henderson, Christology and Discipleship in the Gospel of Mark
Reviewed by W. R. Telford

Helen Leneman, The Performed Bible: The Story of Ruth in Opera and Oratorio
Reviewed by Elisabeth Birnbaum

Paul L. Maier, trans., Eusebius: The Church History
Reviewed by Sabrina Inowlocki

Pheme Perkins, Introduction to the Synoptic Gospels
Reviewed by Peter J. Judge

Jean-Michel Poffet, Daniel Brizemeure, Noël Lacoudre, and Émile Puech, Le Rouleau de cuivre de la grotte 3 de Qumran (3Q15): Expertise - Restauration - Epigraphie
Reviewed by Brian Schultz

Alfred Rahlfs; Detlef Fraenkel, ed., Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments: Bd. I, 1: Die Überlieferung bis zum VIII. Jahrhundert
Reviewed by Johann Cook

Wayne G. Rollins and D. Andrew Kille, eds., Psychological Insight into the Bible: Texts and Readings
Reviewed by E. H. Scheffler

Deborah W. Rooke, ed., A Question of Sex? Gender and Difference in the Hebrew Bible and Beyond
Reviewed by Athalya Brenner

Phillip Sigal, The Halakhah of Jesus of Nazareth according to the Gospel of Matthew
Reviewed by Roland Deines
Reviewed by Dorothy Jean Weaver

Johann Anselm Steiger and Ulrich Heinen, eds., Isaaks Opferung (Gen 22) in den Konfessionen und Medien der frühen Neuzeit
Reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer

Jan G. van der Watt, An Introduction to the Johannine Gospel and Letters
Reviewed by Tom Thatcher

RBL Newsletter, 16 July 2008

The following new reviews have been added to the Review of Biblical Literature. See also below for new reviews in The Bible and Critical Theory.

Kevin L. Anderson, “But God Raised Him from the Dead”: The Theology of Jesus’ Resurrection in Luke-Acts
Reviewed by Lidija Novakovic

Norbert Baumert, Sorgen des Seelsorgers: Übersetzung und Auslegung des ersten Korintherbriefes
Reviewed by Helmut Schwier

Jon L. Berquist, ed., Approaching Yehud: New Approaches to the Study of the Persian Period
Reviewed by Armin Siedlecki

Adela Yarbro Collins, Mark: A Commentary
Reviewed by Edwin Broadhead

Johanna Dorman, The Blemished Body: Deformity and Disability in the Qumran Scrolls
Reviewed by T. M. Lemos

Douglas R. Edwards and C. Thomas McCollough, eds., The Archaeology of Difference: Gender, Ethnicity, Class and the “Other” in Antiquity: Studies in Honor of Eric M. Meyers
Reviewed by Aren M. Maeir

Avraham Faust, Israel’s Ethnogenesis: Settlement, Interaction, Expansion and Resistance
Reviewed by Kenton L. Sparks

Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert and Martin S. Jaffee, eds., The Cambridge Companion to the Talmud and Rabbinic Literature
Reviewed by Joshua Schwartz

Mary Gerhart and Fabian E. Udoh, eds., The Christianity Reader
Reviewed by Mark Reasoner

Rowan A. Greer and Margaret M. Mitchell, The “Belly-Myther” of Endor: Interpretations of 1 Kingdoms 28 in the Early Church
Reviewed by D. Jeffrey Bingham

Christiana de Groot and Marion Ann Taylor, eds., Recovering Nineteenth-Century Women Interpreters of the Bible
Reviewed by Athalya Brenner

John Jarick, 1 Chronicles
Reviewed by Steven L. McKenzie

Anne Lapidus Lerner, Eternally Eve: Images of Eve in the Hebrew Bible, Midrash, and Modern Jewish Poetry
Reviewed by Lieve M. Teugels

Andrew M. Mbuvi, Temple, Exile and Identity in 1 Peter
Reviewed by David G. Horrell

André Munzinger, Discerning the Spirits: Theological and Ethical Hermeneutics in Paul
Reviewed by Lee S. Bond
Reviewed by Victor Paul Furnish

Stephen W. Need, Paul Today: Challenging Readings of Acts and the Epistles
Reviewed by Steve Walton

Barclay M. Newman, ed., The UBS Greek New Testament: A Reader’s Edition
Reviewed by Steven R. Johnson

Bridget Gilfillan Upton, Hearing Mark’s Endings: Listening to Ancient Popular Texts through Speech Act Theory
Reviewed by W. R. Telford

Jan G. van der Watt, An Introduction to the Johannine Gospel and Letters
Reviewed by D. A. Carson

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BOOK REVIEWS

John J. Collins, The Bible after Babel: Historical Criticism in a Postmodern Age
Reviewed by George Aichele

Corinna Riva and Nicholas C. Vella, eds., Debating Orientalization: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Change in the Ancient Mediterranean
Reviewed by Michael Carden

Steven Schweitzer, Reading Utopia in Chronicles
Reviewed by Roland Boer

David Rhoads, From Every People and Nation: The Book of Revelation in Intercultural Perspective
Reviewed by Rohun Park

Dan O. Via, Divine Justice, Divine Judgment: Rethinking the Judgment of Nations
Reviewed by Kathryn Imray

Hector Avalos, The End of Biblical Studies
Reviewed by Peter D Miscall

J. W. Rogerson, According to the Scriptures: The Use of the Bible in Social, Moral and Political Questions
Reviewed by Craig Martin

Jerome T. Walsh, Ahab: The Construction of a King
Reviewed by Lou McNeil

Ward Blanton, Displacing Christian Origins: Philosophy, Secularity and the New Testament
Reviewed by Richard Walsh

Fiona Black, ed., The Recycled Bible: Autobiography, Culture and the Space Between
Reviewed by Christina Petterson

Anne F. Elvey, An Ecological Feminist Reading of the Gospel of Luke
Reviewed by Rohun Park

Warren S. Goldstein, ed., Marx, Critical Theory and Religion: A Critique of Rational Choice
Reviewed by Roland Boer

As of 9 July 2008, RBL has published 4,781 reviews of 4,059 different books. Assuming we maintain our current pace, we expect to publish our 5,000th review sometime in the last few months of 2008. Thanks to Jan van der Watt (RBL general editor) and the members of the RBL editorial board, to our many reviewers, to the many publishers who graciously supply review copies, and to our 8,500+ subscribers for making RBL the premier source of book reviews in biblical studies.

RBL Newsletter, 9 July 2008

The following new reviews have been added to the Review of Biblical Literature.

Paul N. Anderson, Felix Just, S.J., and Tom Thatcher, eds., John, Jesus, and History, Volume 1: Critical Appraisals of Critical Views
Reviewed by Jan G. van der Watt

Timothy K. Beal and Tod Linafelt, eds., Mel Gibson’s Bible: Religion, Popular Culture, and The Passion of the Christ
Reviewed by William Telford

Richard J. Clifford, ed., Wisdom Literature in Mesopotamia and Israel
Reviewed by John Mason
Reviewed by Andrew E. Steinmann

Richard M. Davidson, Flame of Yahweh: Sexuality in the Old Testament
Reviewed by Gerrie Snyman

Peter Dubovský, Hezekiah and the Assyrian Spies: Reconstruction of the Neo-Assyrian Intelligence Services and its Significance for 2 Kings 18–19
Reviewed by Aren M. Maeir

Douglas R. Edwards and C. Thomas McCollough, eds., The Archaeology of Difference: Gender, Ethnicity, Class and the “Other” in Antiquity: Studies in Honor of Eric M. Meyers
Reviewed by Cynthia M. Baker

Daniel K. Falk, The Parabiblical Texts: Strategies for Extending the Scriptures among the Dead Sea Scrolls
Reviewed by Lee Martin McDonald

David Flusser, with R. Steven Notley, The Sage from Galilee: Rediscovering Jesus’ Genius
Reviewed by Robert L. Brawley

Dan Jaffé, Le talmud et les origines juives du christianisme: Jésus, Paul et les judéo-chrétiens dans la littérature talmudique
Reviewed by Oskar Skarsaune

Alexander Jensen, Theological Hermeneutics
Reviewed by Anthony C. Thiselton

Philip S. Johnston, ed., The IVP Introduction to the Bible
Reviewed by Douglas Estes

Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta, Acta Andreae Apocrypha: A New Perspective on the Nature, Intention and Significance of the Primitive Text
Reviewed by Lee Martin McDonald

Sara Parvis and Paul Foster, eds., Justin Martyr and His Worlds
Reviewed by Shawn W. J. Keough

Jaroslav Pelikan, Acts
Reviewed by John B. F. Miller

F. E. Peters, The Voice, the Word, the Books: The Sacred Scripture of the Jews, Christians, and Muslims
Reviewed by Kirk R. MacGregor

Kocku von Stuckrad, ed.; Robert Barr, trans., The Brill Dictionary of Religion
Reviewed by Wolfram Reiss

Geza Vermes, The Resurrection: History and Myth
Reviewed by Tony Costa
Reviewed by Michael R. Licona

Gale A. Yee, ed., Judges and Method: New Approaches in Biblical Studies
Reviewed by Victor H. Matthews

RBL Newsletter, 1 July 2008

The following new reviews have been added to the Review of Biblical Literature.

Paul N. Anderson, Felix Just, S.J., and Tom Thatcher, eds., John, Jesus, and History: Volume 1, Critical Appraisals of Critical Views
Reviewed by Mark A. Matson

Carol Bakhos, ed., Current Trends in the Study of Midrash
Reviewed by Siam Bhayro

David Catchpole, Jesus People: The Historical Jesus and the Beginnings of Community
Reviewed by Paul Foster

John Granger Cook, The Interpretation of the Old Testament in Greco-Roman Paganism
Reviewed by David Lincicum

Hubertus R. Drobner; Siegfried Schatzmann, trans., The Fathers of the Church: A Comprehensive Introduction
Reviewed by Wilhelm Pratscher

Zev Garber, ed., Mel Gibson’s Passion: The Film, the Controversy, and Its Implications
Reviewed by W. R. Telford

Brad E. Kelle, Ancient Israel at War 853–586 BC
Reviewed by T. M. Lemos

Thomas J. Kraus, Ad fontes: Original Manuscripts and Their Significance for Studying Early Christianity: Selected Essays
Reviewed by Christopher Tuckett

Amy-Jill Levine, ed., with Maria Mayo Robbins, A Feminist Companion to the New Testament Apocrypha
Reviewed by Heike Omerzu

Yuzuru Miura, David in Luke-Acts: His Portrayal in the Light of Early Judaism
Reviewed by Steven Cox

Stephen W. Need, The Gospels Today: Challenging Readings of John, Mark, Luke and Matthew
Reviewed by Peter J. Judge

Birger A. Pearson, Ancient Gnosticism: Traditions and Literature
Reviewed by Philip L. Tite

Richard D. Phillips, Hebrews
Reviewed by Knut Backhaus

Brant Pitre, Jesus, the Tribulation, and the End of the Exile: Restoration Eschatology and the Origin of the Atonement
Reviewed by John A. Dennis

Shmuel Safrai, Zeev Safrai, Joshua Schwartz, and Peter J. Tomson, eds., The Literature of the Sages: Second Part: Midrash and Targum, Liturgy, Poetry, Mysticism, Contracts, Inscriptions, Ancient Science and the Languages of Rabbinic Literature
Reviewed by Marvin A. Sweeney

Rivka Ulmer, ed., Discussing Cultural Influences: Text, Context, and Non-Text in Rabbinic Judaism
Reviewed by Joshua Schwartz

Laurence M. Vance, Guide to Prepositions in the Greek New Testament
Reviewed by Paul Elbert

Robby Waddell, The Spirit of the Book of Revelation
Reviewed by Jan A. du Rand

Mark Wilson, Charts on the Book of Revelation: Literary, Historical, and Theological Perspectives
Reviewed by Jan G. van der Watt

Magnus Zetterholm, ed., The Messiah in Early Judaism and Christianity
Reviewed by James H. Charlesworth

RBL Newsletter, 24 June 2008

The following new reviews have been added to the Review of Biblical Literature.

Hans Dieter Betz, Don S. Browning, Bernd Janowski, and Eberhard Jüngel, eds., Religion Past and Present: Encyclopedia of Theology and Religion: Volume 1: A–Bhu
Reviewed by Dirk van der Merwe

Bradford B. Blaine Jr., Peter in the Gospel of John: The Making of an Authentic Disciple
Reviewed by Stephan Witetschek

Markus Bockmuehl and Donald A. Hagner, eds., The Written Gospel
Reviewed by David C. Sim

Sebastian Brock, The Bible in the Syriac Tradition
Reviewed by H. F. van Rooy

Jack Cheng and Marian Feldman, eds., Ancient Near Eastern Art in Context: Studies in Honor of Irene J. Winter by Her Students
Reviewed by Aren Maeir

Gregory W. Dawes, Introduction to the Bible
Reviewed by Randall L. McKinion

Jane DeRose Evans, The Coins and the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Economy of Palestine
Reviewed by Mark A. Chancey

Victor Paul Furnish, 1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians
Reviewed by Eduard Verhoef

Mark D. Futato, Interpreting the Psalms: An Exegetical Handbook
Reviewed by Howard N. Wallace

John Goldingay and David Payne, Isaiah 40–55: A Critical and Exegetical Commentary
Reviewed by Chris Franke

Maria Gorea, Job: Ses précurseurs et ses épigones ou comment faire du nouveau avec de l’ancien
Reviewed by James L. Crenshaw

Nathaniel Helfgot, ed., The Tanakh Companion to the Book of Samuel
Reviewed by Ralph K. Hawkins

Paul M. Hoskins, Jesus as the Fulfillment of the Temple in the Gospel of John
Reviewed by Mary L. Coloe
Reviewed by Nicholas H. Taylor

Ådna Jostein, ed., The Formation of the Early Church
Reviewed by Markus Oehler

Bart J. Koet, Dreams and Scripture in Luke-Acts: Collected Essays
Reviewed by David L. Tiede

Jerome H. Neyrey, Give God the Glory: Ancient Prayer and Worship in Cultural Perspective
Reviewed by Tony Costa

Birger A. Pearson, Ancient Gnosticism: Traditions and Literature
Reviewed by James F. McGrath

Calvin J. Roetzel, 2 Corinthians
Reviewed by Frank J. Matera

Karl Friedrich Ulrichs, Christusglaube: Studien zum Syntagma pistis Christou und zum paulinischen Verständnis von Glaube und Rechtfertigung
Reviewed by Günter Röhser

RBL Newsletter, 14 June 2008

The following new reviews have been added to the Review of Biblical Literature.

Jim W. Adams, The Performative Nature and Function of Isaiah 40–55
Reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer

Ward Blanton, Displacing Christian Origins: Philosophy, Secularity, and the New Testament
Reviewed by Claire Clivaz

Brian Brock, Singing the Ethos of God: On the Place of Christian Ethics in Scripture
Reviewed by Jan G. van der Watt

Walter Brueggemann, Praying the Psalms: Engaging the Scripture and the Life of the Spirit
Reviewed by Patrick D. Miller

Albert Eichhorn; trans. Jeffrey Cayzer, The Lord’s Supper in the New Testament
Reviewed by Sakari Hakkinen

Volker Gäckle, Die Starken und die Schwachen in Korinth und in Rom: Zu Herkunft und Funktion der Antithese in 1Kor 8,1–11,1 und in Röm 14,1–15,13
Reviewed by Stephan Witetschek

Mike Graves and David M. May, Preaching Matthew: Interpretation and Proclamation
Reviewed by Craig S. Keener

Gina Hens-Piazza, 1–2 Kings
Reviewed by Randall L. McKinion

Fredrik Lindgard, Paul’s Line of Thought in 2 Corinthians 4:16–5:10
Reviewed by Thomas Schmeller

Jacob Neusner, ed., The Babylonian Talmud: A Translation and Commentary: Volume 8: Tractate Yebamot
Reviewed by Rivka Ulmer

Jean-Marc Prieur, La croix chez les Pères: (du IIe au début du IVe siècle)
Reviewed by Marco Frenschkowski

Mark Roncace and Patrick Gray, eds., Teaching the Bible through Popular Culture and the Arts
Reviewed by Leonard Greenspoon

Brian S. Rosner, Greed as Idolatry: The Origin and Meaning of a Pauline Metaphor
Reviewed by H. H. Drake Williams III

David T. Runia and Gregory E. Sterling, eds., The Studia Philonica Annual: Studies in Hellenistic Judaism: Volume XIX, 2007
Reviewed by James E. Bowley

Andreas Wagner, ed., Primäre und sekundäre Religion als Kategorie der Religionsgeschichte des Alten Testaments
Reviewed by Mark W. Hamilton

RBL Newsletter, 6 June 2008

The following new reviews have been added to the Review of Biblical Literature.

Klaus-Peter Adam, Saul und David in der judäischen Geschichtsschreibung: Studien zu 1 Samuel 16–2 Samuel 5
Reviewed by Walter Dietrich

Andrew R. Angel, Chaos and the Son of Man: The Hebrew Chaoskampf Tradition in the Period 515 BCE to 200 CE
Reviewed by Lorenzo DiTommaso

J. Harold Ellens, ed., The Destructive Power of Religion: Violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Reviewed by Jan Willem van Henten

John H. Elliott, Conflict, Community, and Honor: 1 Peter in Social-Scientific Perspective
Reviewed by Pheme Perkins

Cristina Grenholm and Daniel Patte, eds., Gender, Tradition and Romans: Shared Ground, Uncertain Borders
Reviewed by Angela Standhartinger

John Paul Heil, Ephesians: Empowerment to Walk in Love for the Unity of All in Christ
Reviewed by Timothy Gombis

John Jarick, ed., Sacred Conjectures: The Context and Legacy of Robert Lowth and Jean Astruc
Reviewed by Knut M. Heim
Reviewed by Allan Rosengren

Y. V. Koh, Royal Autobiography in the Book of Qoheleth
Reviewed by Cristian G. Rata

Carleen R. Mandolfo, Daughter Zion Talks Back to the Prophets: A Dialogic Theology of the Book of Lamentations
Reviewed by Elizabeth Boase

Leo G. Perdue, Wisdom Literature: A Theological History
Reviewed by Bernd U. Schipper

Hershel Shanks, The Copper Scroll and the Search for the Temple Treasure
Reviewed by Kenneth Atkinson

Robert R. Stieglitz, Tel Tanninim: Excavations at Krokodeilon Polis 1996–1999
Reviewed by Jodi Magness

Lieve M. Teugels and Rivka Ulmer, eds., Midrash and Context: Proceedings of the 2004 and 2005 SBL Consultation on Midrash
Reviewed by Alex P. Jassen

Joseph B. Tyson, Marcion and Luke-Acts: A Defining Struggle
Reviewed by Dieter T. Roth

RBL Newsletter, 23 May 2008

The following new reviews have been added to the Review of Biblical Literature.

François Bovon, Luke the Theologian: Fifty-Five Years of Research (1950–2005)
Reviewed by Eric Noffke

Dan W. Clanton, The Good, the Bold, and the Beautiful: The Story of Susanna and Its Renaissance Interpretations
Reviewed by Robert Doran

John J. Collins, A Short Introduction to the Hebrew Bible
Reviewed by Robin Gallaher Branch

Beverly Roberts Gaventa, Our Mother Saint Paul
Reviewed by Angela Standhartinger

Daniel M. Gurtner, The Torn Veil: Matthew’s Exposition of the Death of Jesus
Reviewed by Tony Costa

Doug Ingram, Ambiguity in Ecclesiastes
Reviewed by Martin A. Shields

Othmar Keel, Die Geschichte Jerusalems und die Entstehung des Monotheismus
Reviewed by Ernst Axel Knauf

Martin O’Kane, Painting the Text: The Artist as Biblical Interpreter
Reviewed by Dan W. Clanton Jr.

John Piper, The Future of Justification: A Response to N. T. Wright
Reviewed by Don Garlington

Lance Byron Richey, Roman Imperial Ideology and the Gospel of John
Reviewed by Warren Carter

Diane M. Sharon and Kathryn F. Kravitz, eds., Bringing the Hidden to Light: The Process of Interpretation: Studies in Honor of Stephen A. Geller
Reviewed by Adele Berlin

Christopher J. H. Wright, The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible’s Grand Narrative
Reviewed by Christopher N. Chandler

RBL Newsletter, 14 May 2008

The following new reviews have been added to the Review of Biblical Literature.

Loveday C. A. Alexander, Acts in Its Ancient Literary Context: A Classicist Looks at the Acts of the Apostles
Reviewed by Chrys C. Caragounis

Markus Bockmuehl and James Carleton Paget, eds., Redemption and Resistance: The Messianic Hopes of Jews and Christians in Antiquity
Reviewed by Joshua Ezra Burns

Frances Taylor Gench, Encounters with Jesus: Studies in the Gospel of John
Reviewed by John Painter

L. Ann. Jervis, At the Heart of the Gospel: Suffering in the Earliest Christian Message
Reviewed by Thomas W. Gillespie

Robert Kysar, John: The Maverick Gospel
Reviewed by Dirk G. van der Merwe

Terence C. Mournet, Oral Tradition and Literary Dependency: Variability and Stability in the Synoptic Tradition and Q
Reviewed by Robert K. McIver

Geert van Oyen and Tom Shepherd, eds., The Trial and Death of Jesus: Essays on the Passion Narrative in Mark
Reviewed by Adam D. Winn

Gershom M. H. Ratheiser, Mitzvoth Ethics and the Jewish Bible: The End of Old Testament Theology
Reviewed by Walter Brueggemann

Gerald O. West, ed., Reading Other-Wise: Socially Engaged Biblical Scholars Reading with Their Local Communities
Reviewed by Erhard S. Gerstenberger
Reviewed by Gosnell Yorke

RBL Newsletter, 7 May 2008

The following new reviews have been added to the Review of Biblical Literature.

Paul N. Anderson, The Fourth Gospel and the Quest for Jesus: Modern Foundations Reconsidered
Reviewed by John Painter

Malcolm Choat, Belief and Cult in Fourth-Century Papyri
Reviewed by David Frankfurter

Michael Thomas Davis and Brent A. Strawn, eds., Qumran Studies: New Approaches, New Questions
Reviewed by Heinz-Josef Fabry

April D. DeConick, The Original Gospel of Thomas in Translation: With a Commentary and New English Translation of the Complete Gospel
Reviewed by Stephan Witetschek

Seenam Kim, The Coherence of the Collections in the Book of Proverbs
Reviewed by Johann Cook
Reviewed by Jutta Krispenz

Sarah Malena and David Miano, eds., Milk and Honey: Essays on Ancient Israel and the Bible in Appreciation of the Judaic Studies Program at the University of California, San Diego
Reviewed by Wolfgang Zwickel

Mikeal C. Parsons, Body and Character in Luke and Acts: The Subversion of Physiognomy in Early Christianity
Reviewed by Pieter J. J. Botha
Reviewed by Patrick E. Spencer

Todd Penner and Caroline Vander Stichele, eds., Moving beyond New Testament Theology? Essays in Conversation with Heikki Räisänen
Reviewed by Jan van der Watt

Richard L. Rohrbaugh, The New Testament in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Reviewed by Stephan Joubert

C. Kavin Rowe, Early Narrative Christology: The Lord in the Gospel of Luke
Reviewed by Christopher Tuckett

David T. Runia and Gregory E. Sterling, eds., The Studia Philonica Annual: Studies in Hellenistic Judaism, Volume XVIII
Reviewed by Archie T. Wright

Naomi Seidman, Faithful Renderings: Jewish-Christian Difference and the Politics of Translation
Reviewed by Cameron Boyd-Taylor

Brad H. Young, Meet the Rabbis: Rabbinic Thought and the Teachings of Jesus
Reviewed by Verlyn D. Verbrugge

RBL Newsletter, 30 April 2008

The following new reviews have been added to the Review of Biblical Literature.

Martin Beck and Ulrike Schorn, eds., Auf dem Weg zur Endgestalt von Genesis bis II Regum: Festschrift Hans-Christoph Schmitt zum 65. Geburtstag
Reviewed by Klaas Spronk

Beate Ego and Helmut Merkel, eds., Religiöses Lernen in der biblischen, frühjüdischen und früjchristlichen Überlieferung
Reviewed by Wilhelm Pratscher

Eldon Jay Epp, Junia: The First Woman Apostle
Reviewed by Nancy Calvert-Koyzis

Alice Hunt, Missing Priests: The Zadokites in Tradition and History
Reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer

Lenka Karfíková, Scott Douglass, and Johannes Zachhuber, eds., Gregory of Nyssa: Contra Eunomium II: An English Version with Supporting Studies, Proceedings of the 10th International Colloqium on Gregory of Nyssa (Olomouc, September 15–18, 2004)
Reviewed by Mark Weedman

Ivan Shing Chung Kwong, The Word Order of the Gospel of Luke: Its Foregrounded Messages
Reviewed by Steven Runge

Adriane B. Leveen, Memory and Tradition in the Book of Numbers
Reviewed by Thomas B. Dozeman

Morwenna Ludlow, Gregory of Nyssa, Ancient and (Post)modern
Reviewed by Ilaria Ramelli
Reviewed by Kevin D. Hill

Philip L. Mayo, “Those Who Call Themselves Jews”: The Church and Judaism in the Apocalypse of John
Reviewed by Jack T. Sanders

W. David Nelson, ed. and trans., Mekhilta De-Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai
Reviewed by Steven D. Sacks

Christoph Nihan, From Priestly Torah to Pentateuch: A Study in the Composition of the Book of Leviticus
Reviewed by Eckart Otto

Armand Puig i Tàrrech, ed., Imatge de Déu (Catalan)
Reviewed by Philippe Guillaume

William M. Schniedewind and Joel H. Hunt, A Primer on Ugaritic Language, Culture, and Literature
Reviewed by Robert D. Holmstedt

John Howard Schütz, Paul and the Anatomy of Apostolic Authority
Reviewed by Graydon F. Snyder

Tommy Wasserman, The Epistle of Jude: Its Text and Transmission
Reviewed by Stephen D. Patton

RBL Newsletter, 23 April 2008

The following new reviews have been added to the Review of Biblical Literature.

Herbert W. Bateman IV, ed., Four Views on the Warning Passages in Hebrews
Reviewed by Felix H. Cortez

Dianne Bergant, Israel’s Story: Part Two
Reviewed by A. Joseph Everson

Martin Brändl, Der Agon bei Paulus: Herkunft und Profil paulinischer Agonmetaphoik
Reviewed by Christoph Stenschke

Keith Augustus Burton, The Blessing of Africa: The Bible and African Christianity
Reviewed by J. N. K Mugambi

Joseph A. Fitzmyer, The One Who Is to Come
Reviewed by Jeffrey L. Staley

Kathy L. Gaca and L. L. Welborn, eds., Early Patristic Readings of Romans
Reviewed by David A. Creech

Ilze Kezbere, Umstrittener Monotheismus: Wahre und falsche Apotheose im lukanischen Doppelwerk
Reviewed by Knut Backhaus

David Milson, Art and Architecture of the Synagogue in Late Antique Palestine: In the Shadow of the Church
Reviewed by Jonathan L. Reed

George T. Montague, Understanding the Bible: A Basic Introduction to Biblical Interpretation
Reviewed by Gosnell Yorke

Hillary Rodrigues and Thomas A. Robinson, World Religions: A Guide to the Essentials
Reviewed by Joseph Matos

Marion Ann Taylor and Heather E. Weir, eds., Let Her Speak for Herself: Nineteenth-Century Women Writing on Women in Genesis
Reviewed by Frances Klopper

Valerie M. Warrior, Roman Religion
Reviewed by Edmund P. Cueva

Claus Wilcke, Early Ancient Near Eastern Law: A History of Its Beginnings: The Early Dynastic and Sargonic Periods
Reviewed by Michael S. Moore

RBL Newsletter, 16 April 2008

The following new reviews have been added to the Review of Biblical Literature.

Philip S. Alexander, The Mystical Texts: Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice and Related Manuscripts
Reviewed by Samuel Thomas

John Barton, The Nature of Biblical Criticism
Reviewed by James D. G. Dunn

Roland Boer, Symposia: Dialogues concerning the History of Biblical Interpretation
Reviewed by Henning Graf Reventlow

Andrew Chester, Messiah and Exaltation: Jewish Messianic and Visionary Traditions and New Testament Christology
Reviewed by Martin Karrer

Zeba A. Crook, Reconceptualising Conversion: Patronage, Loyalty, and Conversion in the Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean
Reviewed by Dietmar Neufeld

A. Andrew Das, Solving the Romans Debate
Reviewed by Don Garlington

Max Küchler and Karl Matthias Schmidt, eds., Texte-Fakten-Artefakte: Beiträge zur Bedeutung der Archäologie für die neutestamentliche Forschung
Reviewed by Gabriele Faßbeck

Tremper Longman III, Proverbs
Reviewed by Timothy J. Sandoval

Edward P. Meadors, Idolatry and the Hardening of the Heart: A Study in Biblical Theology
Reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus

James M. Robinson, Jesus: According to the Earliest Witness
Reviewed by Robert A. Derrenbacker Jr.

Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, The Power of the Word: Scripture and the Rhetoric of Empire
Reviewed by Warren Carter

James W. Watts, Ritual and Rhetoric in Leviticus: From Sacrifice to Scripture
Reviewed by Hanna Liss
Reviewed by Mark McEntire

Paul R. Williamson, Sealed with an Oath: Covenant in God’s Unfolding Purpose
Reviewed by Matthew S. Harmon

RBL Newsletter, 9 April 2008

The following new reviews have been added to the Review of Biblical Literature.

Calum Carmichael, Illuminating Leviticus: A Study of Its Laws and Institutions in the Light of Biblical Narratives
Reviewed by Reinhard Achenbach

C. John Collins, Genesis 1–4: A Linguistic, Literary, and Theological Commentary
Reviewed by Philippe Guillaume

Mary L. Coloe, Dwelling in the Household of God: Johannine Ecclesiology and Spirituality
Reviewed by Cornelis Bennema

Carol Dempsey, Jeremiah: Preacher of Grace, Poet of Truth
Reviewed by Carolyn J. Sharp

Ronald Herms, An Apocalypse for the Church and for the World: The Narrative Function of Universal Language in the Book of Revelation
Reviewed by David L. Barr

Timothy Paul Jones, Misquoting Truth: A Guide to the Fallacies of Bart Ehrman’s Misquoting Jesus
Reviewed by Craig L. Blomberg

Jan Joosten and Peter J. Tomson, eds., Voces Biblicae: Septuagint Greek and Its Significance for the New Testament
Reviewed by Hans Ausloos

J. A. (Bobby) Loubser, Oral and Manuscript Culture in the Bible: Studies on the Media Texture of the New Testament—Explorative Hermeneutics
Reviewed by Alan Kirk

Nicholas Perrin, Thomas, The Other Gospel
Reviewed by Kenneth D. Litwak

Mark Roncace, Jeremiah, Zedekiah, and the Fall of Jerusalem
Reviewed by Lester L. Grabbe

Don Sausa, The Jesus Tomb: Is It Fact or Fiction? Scholars Chime In
Reviewed by Mark R. Fairchild

John L. Thompson, Reading the Bible with the Dead: What You Can Learn from the History of Exegesis That You Can’t Learn from Exegesis Alone
Reviewed by John Sandys-Wunsch

D. Francois Tolmie, Persuading the Galatians: A Text-Centred Rhetorical Analysis of a Pauline Letter
Reviewed by Steven A. Hunt

Elaine M. Wainwright, Women Healing/Healing Women: The Genderization of Healing in Early Christianity
Reviewed by John J. Pilch

Ulrich Wilckens, Theologie des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1: Geschichte der urchristlichen Theologie
— Part 1: Geschichte des Wirkens Jesu in Galiläa
— Part 2: Jesu Tod und Auferstehung und die Entstehung der Kirche aus Juden und Heiden
— Part 3: Die Briefe des Urchristetums: Paulus und seine Schüler, Theologen aus dem Bereich judenchristlicher Heidenmission
— Part 4: Die Evangelien, die Apostelgeschichte, die Johannesbriefe, die Offenbarung und die Entstehung des Kanons
Reviewed by Christoph Stenschke

RBL Newsletter, 28 March 2008

The following new reviews have been added to the Review of Biblical Literature.

Joan Cecelia Campbell, Kinship Relations in the Gospel of John
Reviewed by Ritva H. Williams

Daniel K. Falk, The Parabiblical Texts: Strategies for Extending the Scriptures among the Dead Sea Scrolls
Reviewed by Matthew Goff

Karin Finsterbusch, Armin Lange, and K. F. Diethard Römheld, eds., Human Sacrifice in Jewish and Christian Tradition
Reviewed by Jason Tatlock

John Fotopoulos, ed., The New Testament and Early Christian Literature in Greco-Roman Context: Studies in Honor of David E. Aune
Reviewed by Michael Labahn
Reviewed by Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr

Paul M. Fullmer, Resurrection in Mark’s Literary-Historical Perspective
Reviewed by John Dart

Martha Himmelfarb, A Kingdom of Priests: Ancestry and Merit in Ancient Judaism
Reviewed by Henryk Drawnel

F. Rachel Magdalene, On the Scales of Righteousness: Neo-Babylonian Trial Law and the Book of Job
Reviewed by Markus Witte

James K. Mead, Biblical Theology: Issues, Methods, and Themes
Reviewed by James D. G. Dunn

Jean-Marc Michaud, ed., La Bible et l’héritage d’Ougarit: Mélanges bibliques et orientaux en hommage posthume à Monsieur André Caquot
Reviewed by Paul Sanders

Günter Neumann, Glossar des Lykischen: Überarbeitet und zum Druck gebracht von Johann Tischler
Reviewed by Diether Schürr

Romano Penna, Lettera ai Romani: II. Rm 6-11
Reviewed by Lee S. Bond

Neil A. Soggie, Myth, God, and War: The Mythopoetic Inspiration of Joshua
Reviewed by Ovidiu Creangă

Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer, Priestly Rites and Prophetic Rage: Post-exilic Prophetic Critique of the Priesthood
Reviewed by Reinhard Achenbach

William Varner, The Way of the Didache: The First Christian Handbook
Reviewed by Jonathan A. Draper

Robert Louis Wilken, trans. and ed.; with Angela Russell Christman and Michael J. Hollerich, Isaiah: Interpreted by Early Christian and Medieval Commentators
Reviewed by J. David Cassel

RBL Newsletter, 13 March 2008

The following new reviews have been added to the Review of Biblical Literature.

RBL is pleased to publish multiple reviews of Joel S. Kaminsky, Yet I Loved Jacob: Reclaiming the Biblical Concept of Election, as well as Kaminsky’s response to those reviews. All were originally presented in November 2007 at the SBL Annual Meeting in San Diego.
Reviewed by Benjamin D. Sommer
Reviewed by Jacqueline Lapsley
Reviewed by Ellen F. Davis
Reviewed by Joel N. Lohr
Reviewed by Patrick D. Miller
Response by Joel S. Kaminsky

Egbert Ballhorn and Georg Steins, eds., Der Bibelkanon in der Bibelauslegung: Methodenreflexionen und Beispielexegesen
Reviewed by Daniel R. Driver

Richard J. Cassidy, Four Times Peter: Portrayals of Peter in the Four Gospels and at Philippi
Reviewed by Patrick J. Hartin

Ira Brent Driggers, Following God through Mark: Theological Tension in the Second Gospel
Reviewed by Elliott Maloney

Katharina Galor, Jean-Baptiste Humbert, and Jürgen Zangenberg, eds., Qumran, The Site of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Archaeological Interpretations and Debates (Proceedings of a Conference held at Brown University, November 17–19, 2002)
Reviewed by Kenneth Atkinson

Jeffrey Stackert, Rewriting the Torah: Literary Revision in Deuteronomy and the Holiness Legislation
Reviewed by Eckart Otto

Robert J. Karris, ed. and trans., Works of St. Bonaventure: Commentary on the Gospel of John
Reviewed by Mark Elliott

RBL Newsletter, 5 March 2008

The following new reviews have been added to the Review of Biblical Literature. See also below for new reviews in and a special offer from The Bible and Critical Theory.

Dale C. Allison Jr., Studies in Matthew: Interpretation Past and Present
Reviewed by Bogdan G. Bucur

Alec Basson, Divine Metaphors in Selected Hebrew Psalms of Lamentation
Reviewed by Christine Treu

John J. Collins and Craig A. Evans, eds., Christian Beginnings and the Dead Sea Scrolls
Reviewed by Matthew Goff

Jeffrey A. Gibbs, Matthew 1:1–11:1
Reviewed by Charles L. Quarles

John H. Hayes and Carl R. Holladay, Biblical Exegesis: A Beginner’s Handbook
Reviewed by David Allen

Philippe Hugo, Les deux visages d’Élie: Texte massorétique et Septante dans l’histoire la plus ancienne du texte de 1 Rois 17–18
Reviewed by Gerrie Snyman

Brad E. Kelle, Ancient Israel at War 853–586 BC
Reviewed by Ernst Axel Knauf

William Loader, The New Testament with Imagination: A Fresh Approach to Its Writings and Themes
Reviewed by Séan P. Kealy

Megan Bishop Moore, Philosophy and Practice in Writing a History of Ancient Israel
Reviewed by Ralph K. Hawkins

Annette Steudel, Eibert Tigchelaar, and Florentino García Martínez, eds., From 4QMMT to Resurrection: Mélanges qumraniens en hommage à Émile Puech
Reviewed by Kenneth Atkinson

Jerry L. Sumney, Philippians: A Greek Student’s Intermediate Reader
Reviewed by Robert Keay

Gerald H. Wilson, Job
Reviewed by Katharine Dell

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The Bible and Critical Theory
Volume 4, Number 1 (February 2008)
Edited by Dr. Julie Kelso with
Associate Editor Dr Roland Boer
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Ehud Ben Zvi, ed., Utopia and Dystopia in Prophetic Literature
Reviewed by Roland Boer

Melody D. Knowles, Esther Menn, John Pawlikowski, and Timothy J. Sandoval, eds., Contesting Texts: Jews and Christians in Conversation about the Bible
Reviewed by Michael Carden

R. S. Sugirtharajah, ed., Voices from the Margin: Interpreting the Bible in the Third World
Reviewed by Bridget Culpepper

Eric S. Christianson, Ecclesiastes through the Centuries
Reviewed by R. Christopher Heard

Mark McEntire and Joel Emerson, Raising Cain, Fleeing Egypt and Fighting Philistines
Reviewed by Soren Holst

Virginia Burrus and Catherine Keller, eds., Toward a Theology of Eros: Transfiguring Passion at the Limits of Discipline
Reviewed by Mark Manolopoulos

Tikva Frymer-Kensky, Studies in Bible and Feminist Criticism
Reviewed by Judith E. McKinlay

Wesley J. Bergen and Armin Siedlecki, eds., Voyages in Uncharted Waters: Essays on the Theory and Practice of Biblical Interpretation in Honour of David Jobling
Reviewed by Peter D. Miscall

Graham S. Ogden, Qoheleth
Reviewed by Peter D. Miscall

Ehud Ben Zvi, History, Literature and Theology in the Book of Chronicles
Reviewed by Christine Mitchell

Marcel Danesi, The Quest for Meaning: A Guide to Semiotic Theory and Practice
Reviewed by Mark Sneed

Andrew P. Wilson, Transfigured: A Derridean Rereading of the Markan Transfiguration
Reviewed by Mark Sneed

Elaine M. Wainwright, Women Healing/Healing Women: The Genderization of Healing in Early Christianity
Reviewed by Kristi Upson-Saia

Marvin A. Sweeney, Form and Intertextuality in Prophetic and Apocalyptic Literature
Reviewed by Thomas Wagner

Review of James G. Crossley, Why Christianity Happened: A Sociohistorical Account of Christian Origins (26–50 CE)
Reviewed by Richard Walsh

RBL Publication Stats

As of 2 March 2008, RBL has published 4,568 reviews of 3,883 different books. Assuming we maintain our current pace, we expect to publish our 5,000th review sometime near the end of 2008. Thanks to Jan van der Watt (RBL general editor) and the members of the RBL editorial board, to our many reviewers, to the many publishers who graciously supply review copies, and to our 8,500+ subscribers for making RBL the premiere source of book reviews in biblical studies.

RBL Newsletter, 26 February 2008

The following new reviews have been added to the Review of Biblical Literature.

Cilliers Breytenbach, Johan C. Thom, and Jeremy Punt, eds., The New Testament Interpreted: Essays in Honour of Bernhard C. Lategan
Reviewed by Douglas Estes

Walter Brueggemann, Mandate to Difference: An Invitation to the Contemporary Church
Reviewed by Stephan Joubert

David Buttrick, Speaking Conflict: Stories of a Controversial Jesus
Reviewed by John J. Pilch

J. W. Childers and D. C. Parker, eds., Transmission and Reception: New Testament Text-Critical and Exegetical Studies
Reviewed by Erroll F. Rhodes

Rachel Hallote, Bible, Map, and Spade: The American Palestine Exploration Society, Frederick Jones Bliss, and the Forgotten Story of Early American Biblical Archaeology
Reviewed by Eric M. Meyers

John R. Hinnells, ed., A Handbook of Ancient Religions
Reviewed by Martin Ramey

Shane Kirkpatrick, Competing for Honor: A Social-Scientific Reading of Daniel 1–6
Reviewed by John J. Collins

Aquila H. I. Lee, From Messiah to Preexistent Son: Jesus’ Self-Consciousness and Early Christian Exegesis of Messianic Psalms
Reviewed by Sam Janse

Jane Dammen McAuliffe, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Qur’ān
Reviewed by Ernst Axel Knauf

Stefan C. Reif, Problems with Prayers: Studies in the Textual History of Early Rabbinic Liturgy
Reviewed by Joshua Schwartz

James Robson, Word and Spirit in Ezekiel
Reviewed by H. F. Van Rooy
Reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer

Richard W. Swanson, Provoking the Gospel of Matthew: A Storyteller’s Commentary, Year A
Reviewed by Deborah Thompson Prince

RBL Newsletter, 19 February 2008

The following new reviews have been added to the Review of Biblical Literature.

David E. Aune, ed., Rereading Paul Together: Protestant and Catholic Perspectives on Justification
Reviewed by James D. G. Dunn
Reviewed by Philip F. Esler

John Goldingay, Psalms, Volume 1: Psalms 1–41
Reviewed by Philippus J. Botha

John Goldingay and David Payne, Isaiah 40–55: A Critical and Exegetical Commentary (2 vols.)
Reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer

Sabrina Inowlocki, Eusebius and the Jewish Authors: His Citation Technique in an Apologetic Context
Reviewed by Elizabeth C. Penland

Giorgio Jossa, Jews or Christians? The Followers of Jesus in Search of Their Own Identity
Reviewed by Michael F. Bird

John S. Kloppenborg, The Tenants in the Vineyard: Ideology, Economics, and Agrarian Conflict in Jewish Palestine
Reviewed by Richard L. Rohrbaugh

J. Ed Komoszewski and Robert M. Bowman Jr., Putting Jesus in His Place: The Case for the Deity of Christ
Reviewed by D. A. Carson

Victor H. Matthews, 101 Questions and Answers on the Prophets of Israel
Reviewed by Hemchand Gossai

Andrei A. Orlov, From Apocalypticism to Merkabah Mysticism: Studies in Slavonic Pseudepigrapha
Reviewed by Grant Macaskill

Maria-Luisa Rigato, Giovanni: L’enigma il Presbitero il culto il tempio la cristologia
Reviewed by Ilaria Ramelli

Bruce K. Waltke, A Commentary on Micah
Reviewed by Tiberius Rata

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