Review of Biblical Literature Blog: April 2009

F. Scott Spencer, The Gospel of Luke and Acts of the Apostles
Reviewed by Gregory E. Sterling

Dale B. Martin, Pedagogy of the Bible: An Analysis and Proposal
Reviewed by Renate Viveen Hood

Henry Ansgar Kelly, Satan: A Biography
Reviewed by James A. Metzger

Cornelia B. Horn and Robert R. Phenix Jr., eds. and trans., John Rufus: The Lives of Peter the Iberian, Theodosius of Jerusalem, and the Monk Romanus
Reviewed by Pauline Allen

Susan R. Holman, ed., Wealth and Poverty in Early Church and Society
Reviewed by Preston M. Sprinkle

Susan Haber; edited by Adele Reinhartz, “They Shall Purify Themselves”: Essays on Purity in Early Judaism
Reviewed by Joshua Schwartz

Terence E. Fretheim, Abraham: Trials of Family and Faith
Reviewed by Hallvard Hagelia

Adrian Curtis, Oxford Bible Atlas
Reviewed by George Athas

William S. Campbell, Peter S. Hawkins, and Brenda Deen Schildgen, eds., Medieval Readings of Romans
Reviewed by Francis Dalrymple-Hamilton

Karel van der Toorn, Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible
Reviewed by Frank Polak

T. A. Perry, God’s Twilight Zone: Wisdom in the Hebrew Bible
Reviewed by Thomas M. Bolin

Saul M. Olyan, Disability in the Hebrew Bible: Interpreting Mental and Physical Differences
Reviewed by David M. Maas
Reviewed by Hector Avalos

Kathryn McClymond, Beyond Sacred Violence: A Comparative Study of Sacrifice
Reviewed by Leigh Trevaskis

J. Cheryl Exum and Ela Nutu, eds., Between the Text and the Canvas: The Bible and Art in Dialogue
Reviewed by Hennie Stander

Tamara Cohn Eskenazi and Andrea L. Weiss, eds., The Torah: A Women's Commentary
Reviewed by Susanne Scholz

Lytta Basset, Holy Anger: Jacob, Job, Jesus
Reviewed by Jutta Jokiranta

H. Ausloos, F. García Martínez, M. Vervenne, J. Cook, and B. Lemmelijn, eds., Translating a Translation: The LXX and Its Modern Translations in the Context of Early Judaism
Reviewed by Tuukka Kauhanen

Steven J. Voris, Preaching Parables: A Metaphorical Interfaith Approach
Reviewed by Ernest van Eck

David Andrew Thomas, Revelation 19 in Historical and Mythological Context
Reviewed by David L. Barr

Walther Sallaberger, Das Gilgamesch-Epos: Mythos, Werk und Tradition
Reviewed by Gerhard Karner

Ephraim Radner, Leviticus
Reviewed by Leigh Trevaskis

Judith Perkins, Roman Imperial Identities in the Early Christian Era
Reviewed by Ilaria Ramelli

Carmel McCarthy, ed., Biblia Hebraica Quinta: Deuteronomy
Reviewed by Mark McEntire

Larry J. Kreitzer, Philemon
Reviewed by Torrey Seland

Leonid Kogan, Natalia Koslova, Sergey Loesov, and Sergei Tishchenko, eds., Babel und Bibel 3: Annual of Ancient Near Eastern, Old Testament and Semitic Studies
Reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer

John Jarick, 2 Chronicles
Reviewed by Louis C. Jonker

Norman C. Habel and Peter Trudinger, eds., Exploring Ecological Hermeneutics
Reviewed by Johan Buitendag

Daniel M. Gurtner and John Nolland, eds., Built upon the Rock: Studies in the Gospel of Matthew
Reviewed by J. Christopher Edwards

Robert P. Gordon, ed., The God of Israel
Reviewed by Bruce A. Power

Eckart Reinmuth, Anthropologie im Neuen Testament
Reviewed by Christoph Stenschke

Linda M. MacCammon, Liberating the Bible: A Guide for the Curious and Perplexed
Reviewed by Martin Meiser

Oded Lipschits, Gary N. Knoppers, and Rainer Albertz, eds., Judah and the Judeans in the Fourth Century B.C.E.
Reviewed by Allen Kerkeslager

Andreas J. Kostenberger and Scott R. Swain, Father, Son and Spirit: The Trinity and John’s Gospel
Reviewed by Mary Coloe

Matthias Köckert, Die Zehn Gebote
Reviewed by Paul Sanders

Wouter J. Hanegraaf, ed., Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism
Reviewed by David E. Aune

Weston W. Fields, The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Short History
Reviewed by Eric F. Mason

Neil Elliott, The Arrogance of Nations: Reading Romans in the Shadow of Empire
Reviewed by Glenn E. Snyder
Reviewed by Graydon F. Snyder
Reviewed by Ben Witherington III

Stephanie Lynn Budin, The Myth of Sacred Prostitution in Antiquity
Reviewed by Mayer Gruber
Reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer

Piotr Bienkowski, Christopher Mee, and Elizabeth Slater, eds., Writing and Ancient Near Eastern Society: Papers in Honour of Alan R. Millard
Reviewed by Raymond Person