Review of Biblical Literature Blog: May 2009

Chaim Navon, Genesis and Jewish Thought
Reviewed by David M. Maas

Scot McKnight and Joseph B. Modica, eds., Who Do My Opponents Say That I Am? An Investigation of the Accusations against Jesus
Reviewed by V. George Shillington

I. Howard Marshall, A Concise New Testament Theology
Reviewed by Edward J. McMahon II

Bryan M. Litfin, Getting to Know the Church Fathers: An Evangelical Introduction
Reviewed by H. H. Drake Williams III

Antti Laato and Jacques van Ruiten, eds., Rewritten Bible Reconsidered: Proceedings of the Conference in Karkku, Finland
Reviewed by Sidnie White Crawford

Diana Lipton, Longing for Egypt and Other Unexpected Biblical Tales
Reviewed by Amelia Devin Freedman

Jason König and Tim Whitmarsh, eds., Ordering Knowledge in the Roman Empire
Reviewed by Stephan Witetschek

Leonhard Burckhardt, Klaus Seybold, and Jürgen von Ungern-Sternberg, eds., Gesetzgebung in antiken Gesellschaften: Israel, Griechenland, Rom
Reviewed by Ernst Axel Knauf

A. Philip Brown II and Bryan W. Smith, eds., A Reader's Hebrew Bible
Reviewed by Hallvard Hagelia

Moshe Bar-Asher, Dalit Rom-Shiloni, Emanuel Tov, and Nili Wazana, eds., Shai le-Sara Japhet: Studies in the Bible, Its Exegesis and Its Language [Hebrew]
Reviewed by Bálint Károly Zabán

Robert W. Yarbrough, 1, 2, and 3 John
Reviewed by Tobias Nicklas

H. G. M. Williamson, ed., Understanding the History of Ancient Israel
Reviewed by Walter Dietrich

Tammi J. Schneider, Mothers of Promise: Women in the Book of Genesis
Reviewed by Ellen White

David Marcus, ed., Biblia Hebraica Quinta: Ezra and Nehemiah
Reviewed by Andrew Steinmann

Walter C. Kaiser, Darrell L. Bock, and Peter Enns; edited by Kenneth Berding and Jonathan Lunde, Three Views on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament
Reviewed by Stephen Moyise

Tal Ilan, Tamara Or, Dorothea Salzer, Christiane Steuer, and Irina Wandrey, eds., A Feminist Commentary on the Babylonian Talmud: Introduction and Studies
Reviewed by Joshua Schwartz

Israel Finkelstein and Amihai Mazar; edited by Brian B. Schmidt, The Quest for the Historical Israel: Debating Archaeology and the History of Early Israel
Reviewed by Ralph K. Hawkins

Jerome Murphy-O’Connor, St. Paul’s Ephesus: Texts and Archaeology
Reviewed by Jan G. van der Watt

Susan Haber; edited by Adele Reinhartz, “They Shall Purify Themselves”: Essays on Purity in Early Judaism
Reviewed by Jonathan D. Lawrence

Craig A. Evans, ed., Encyclopedia of the Historical Jesus
Reviewed by Christoph Stenschke

Raymond F. Collins, The Power of Images in Paul
Reviewed by Nils Neumann

Warren Carter, John and Empire: Initial Explorations
Reviewed by Stephan Witetschek

Johanna Brankaer and Hans-Gebhard Bethge, eds., Codex Tchacos: Texte und Analysen
Reviewed by Michael Kaler

Roger S. Bagnall, ed., Egypt in the Byzantine World 300–700
Reviewed by David Frankfurter

Janice Capel Anderson and Stephen D. Moore, eds., Mark and Method: New Approaches in Biblical Studies
Reviewed by Renate Viveen Hood

Stanley E. Porter, ed., Dictionary of Biblical Criticism and Interpretation
Reviewed by Christoph Stenschke

Ilana Pardes, Melville’s Bibles
Reviewed by Michael Kaler

Patricia A. Kirkpatrick and Timothy Goltz, eds., The Function of Ancient Historiography in Biblical and Cognate Studies
Reviewed by Ernst Axel Knauf

Dirk J. Human, ed., Psalms and Mythology
Reviewed by Jeffery M. Leonard

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 Ilaria L. E. Ramelli

Billie Jean Collins, The Hittites and Their World
Reviewed by Willemijn Waal

James K. Bruckner, Exodus
Reviewed by Brian D. Russell

Michael F. Bird, Jesus and the Origins of the Gentile Mission
Reviewed by Andreas J. Kostenberger

Reimund Bieringer, Emmanuel Nathan, and Dominika Kurek-Chomycz, 2 Corinthians: A Bibliography
Reviewed by Victor Paul Furnish

John Ashton, Understanding the Fourth Gospel
Reviewed by Craig R. Koester