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