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