2011.12.10. Ulrich and Flint, Qumran Cave 1.II: The Isaiah Scrolls
Eugene Ulrich and Peter W. Flint, Qumran Cave 1.II: The Isaiah Scrolls
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Eugene Ulrich and Peter W. Flint, Qumran Cave 1.II: The Isaiah Scrolls
Reviewed by Eibert Tigchelaar
Matthew A. Thomas, These Are the Generations: Identity, Covenant, and the ‘toledot’ Formula
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Allen Brent, Cyprian and Roman Carthage
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Robert W. Jenson, Canon and Creed
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Mladen Popović, ed., Authoritative Scriptures in Ancient Judaism
Reviewed by Stefan C. Reif
Jörg Frey, Jens Herzer, Martina Janßen, and Clare K. Rothschild, eds., Pseudepigraphie und Verfasserfiktion in frühchristlichen Briefen
Reviewed by Christoph Stenschke
David J. A. Clines, ed., The Concise Dictionary of Classical Hebrew
Reviewed by Gilbert Lozano
Allen Dwight Callahan, The Talking Book: African Americans and the Bible
Reviewed by Nyasha Junior
Margaret Barker, Creation: A Biblical Vision for the Environment
Reviewed by John Painter
J. Randall Short, The Surprising Election and Confirmation of King David
Reviewed by Steven L. McKenzie
Susanne Scholz, Sacred Witness: Rape in the Hebrew Bible
Reviewed by Eve Levavi Feinstein
Reviewed by Agnethe Siquans
Jordan D. Rosenblum, Food and Identity in Early Rabbinic Judaism
Reviewed by Robert Brody
Reviewed by Joshua Schwartz
Jurrien Mol, Collective and Individual Responsibility: A Description of Corporate Personality in Ezekiel 18 and 20
Reviewed by Karin Schöpflin
Lois K. Fuller Dow, Images of Zion: Biblical Antecedents for the New Jerusalem
Reviewed by Nils Neumann
Scott N. Callaham, Modality and the Biblical Hebrew Infinitive Absolute
Reviewed by Brian L. Webster
John J. Ahn and Stephen L. Cook, eds., Thus Says the Lord: Essays on the Former and Latter Prophets in Honor of Robert R. Wilson
Reviewed by Edgar W. Conrad
Hans-Friedrich Weiss, Frühes Christentum und Gnosis: Eine rezeptionsgeschichtliche Studie
Reviewed by Ismo Dunderberg
Shemaryahu Talmon, Text and Canon of the Hebrew Bible
Reviewed by James A. Sanders
Christopher D. Stanley, The Hebrew Bible: A Comparative Approach
Reviewed by Bradford A. Anderson
Henning Graf Reventlow and Yair Hoffman, eds., The Decalogue in Jewish and Christian Tradition
Reviewed by Michael Tilly
Rolf A. Jacobson, ed., Soundings in the Theology of Psalms: Perspectives and Methods in Contemporary Scholarship
Reviewed by Beat Weber
Niko Huttunen, Paul and Epictetus on Law: A Comparison
Reviewed by Gitte Buch-Hansen
Knut Holder and Louis C. Jonker, eds., Global Hermeneutics? Reflections and Consequences
Reviewed by Susanne Scholz
Reviewed by Gerrie Snyman
Joel B. Green, ed., Methods for Luke
Reviewed by Robert M. Fowler
Francesco Cocco, Sulla Cattedra di Mosè: La legitimazione del potere nell’Israele post-esilico (Nm 11; 16)
Reviewed by Donatella Scaiola
Michael W. Martin, Judas and the Rhetoric of Comparison in the Fourth Gospel
Reviewed by Tom Thatcher
Jürg Luchsinger, Poetik der alttestamentlichen Spruchweisheit
Reviewed by James Alfred Loader
Anthony Le Donne, The Historiographical Jesus: Memory, Typology, and the Son of David
Reviewed by Alan Kirk
Michael Lakey, Image and Glory of God: 1 Corinthians 11:2–16 as a Case Study in Bible, Gender and Hermeneutics
Reviewed by William O. Walker Jr.
Paul D. Korchin, Markedness in Canaanite and Hebrew Verbs
Reviewed by John Lubbe
Susan E. Hylen, Imperfect Believers: Ambiguous Characters in the Gospel of John
Reviewed by R. Alan Culpepper
Terence L. Donaldson, Jews and Anti-Judaism in the New Testament: Decision Points and Divergent Interpretations
Reviewed by Jeffrey S. Siker
Gitte Buch-Hansen, “It Is the Spirit That Gives Life”: A Stoic Understanding of Pneuma in John’s Gospel
Reviewed by Cornelis Bennema
Katell Berthelot, Thierry Legrand, and André Paul, eds., Torah: Genèse
Reviewed by Kristin De Troyer
Ehud Ben Zvi and James D. Nogalski, Two Sides of a Coin: Juxtaposing Views on Interpreting the Book of the Twelve/the Twelve Prophetic Books
Reviewed by Marvin A. Sweeney
Klaus Seybold, Poetik der prophetischen Literatur im Alten Testament
Reviewed by Heinz-Dieter Neef
Erwin Ochsenmeier, Mal, souffrance et justice de Dieu selon Romains 1–3: Étude exégétique et théologique
Reviewed by Paul Sanders
Dietmar Neufeld and Richard E. DeMaris, eds., Understanding the Social World of the New Testament
Reviewed by Renate Viveen Hood
Kathy Reiko Maxwell, Hearing between the Lines: The Audience as Fellow-Worker in Luke-Acts and its Literary Milieu
Reviewed by Jean-François Racine
Gershon Galil, The Lower Stratum Families in the Neo-Assyrian Period
Reviewed by John MacGinnis
S. White Crawford, A. Ben-Tor, J. P. Dessel, W. G. Dever, A. Mazar, and J. Aviram, eds., “Up to the Gates of Ekron”: Essays on the Archaeology and History of the Eastern Mediterranean in Honor of Seymour Gitin
Reviewed by Carl S. Ehrlich
Stefano Cotrozzi, Expect the Unexpected: Aspects of Pragmatic Foregrounding in Old Testament Narratives
Reviewed by Philip Nel
Kathleen E. Corley, Maranatha: Women’s Funerary Rituals and Christian Origins
Reviewed by Susan Miller
Herbert Basser, The Mind behind the Gospels: A Commentary to Matthew 1–14
Reviewed by Robert H. Gundry
Reviewed by Timothy Howell
Jacques Vermeylen, Jérusalem centre du monde: Développements et contestations d’une tradition biblique
Reviewed by Jeffrey L. Morrow
Jeremy Schipper, Parables and Conflict in the Hebrew Bible
Reviewed by George Savran
Barbara Nevling Porter, ed., What Is a God? Anthropomorphic and Non-anthropomorphic Aspects of Deity in Ancient Mesopotamia
Reviewed by Aren M. Maeir
Scott B. Noegel and Gary A. Rendsburg, Solomon’s Vineyard: Literary and Linguistic Studies in the Song of Songs
Reviewed by George Athas
Reviewed by Jonathan Kaplan
Elizabeth Struthers Malbon, ed., Between Author and Audience in Mark: Narration, Characterization, Interpretation
Reviewed by Tom Shepherd
Gary N. Knoppers and Lester L. Grabbe, with Deirdre N. Fulton, eds., Exile and Restoration Revisited: Essays on the Babylonian and Persian Periods in Memory of Peter R. Ackroyd
Reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer
Dereck Daschke and Andrew Kille, eds., A Cry Instead of Justice: The Bible and Cultures of Violence in Psychological Perspective
Reviewed by J. Dwayne Howell
Hannes Bezzel, Die Konfessionen Jeremias: Eine redaktionsgeschichtliche Studie
Reviewed by John Engle
N. Wyatt, The Archaeology of Myth: Papers on Old Testament Tradition
Reviewed by Uwe F. W. Bauer
Eric C. Stewart, Gathered around Jesus: An Alternative Spatial Practice in the Gospel of Mark
Reviewed by Elizabeth Struthers Malbon
Horst Seebass, Genesis I: Urgeschichte (1,1–11,26)
Reviewed by John Engle
T. M. Lemos, Marriage Gifts and Social Change in Ancient Palestine: 1200 BCE to 200 CE
Reviewed by Anselm C. Hagedorn
Thomas R. Hatina, ed., Biblical Interpretation in Early Christian Gospels: Volume 3: The Gospel of Luke
Reviewed by Mikeal C. Parsons
Sidney Greidanus, Preaching Christ from Ecclesiastes: Foundations for Expository Sermons
Reviewed by Jordan M. Scheetz
Allie M. Ernst, Martha from the Margins: The Authority of Martha in Early Christian Tradition
Reviewed by Joseph Oryshak
James R. Edwards, The Hebrew Gospel and the Development of the Synoptic Tradition
Reviewed by James P. Sweeney
D. A. Carson and Douglas J. Moo; Andrew David Naselli, ed., Introducing the New Testament: A Short Guide to Its History and Message
Reviewed by Adam Winn
Jeffrey Boss, Human Consciousness of God in the Book of Job: A Theological and Psychological Commentary
Reviewed by William J. Kynes
Horst Seebass, Numeri: Kapitel 22,2–36,13
Reviewed by John Engle
Kelli S. O’Brien, The Use of Scripture in the Markan Passion Narrative
Reviewed by Maarten J. J. Menken
Marco Nobile, Saggi su Ezechiele
Reviewed by Donatella Scaiola
Dermot Anthony Nestor, Cognitive Perspectives on Israelite Identity
Reviewed by Frank H. Polak
Maarten J. J. Menken and Steve Moyise, eds., The Minor Prophets in the New Testament
Reviewed by Michael Labahn
AnneMarie Luijendijk, Greetings in the Lord: Early Christians in the Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Reviewed by Pieter W. van der Horst
Martin Hengel; ed. Claus-Jürgen Thornton, Studien zur Christologie: Kleine Schriften IV
Reviewed by Lars Kierspel
Ehud Ben Zvi, Diana Edelman, and Frank Polak, eds., A Palimpsest: Rhetoric, Ideology, Stylistics, and Language Relating to Persian Israel
Reviewed by Bob Becking
Daphna Arbel, J. R. C. Cousland, and Dietmar Neufeld, “…And So They Went Out”: The Lives of Adam and Eve as Cultural Transformative Story
Reviewed by Deborah Rooke
Nicolas Wyatt, Word of Tree and Whisper of Stone: And Other Papers on Ugaritian Thought
Reviewed by John Engle
Runar M. Thorsteinsson, Roman Christianity and Roman Stoicism: A Comparative Study of Ancient Morality
Reviewed by Jeffrey Murray
Reviewed by Stefan Nordgaard
Piotr Taracha, Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia
Reviewed by Aren M. Maeir
Russell Pregeant, Encounter with the New Testament: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Reviewed by Sonya S. Cronin
Stuart L. Love, Jesus and Marginal Women: The Gospel of Matthew in Social-Scientific Perspective
Reviewed by Warren Carter
Terry Giles and William J. Doan, Twice Used Songs: Performance Criticism of the Songs of Ancient Israel
Reviewed by Amir Eitan
Frederick Mario Fales, Guerre et paix en Assyrie: Religion et impérialisme
Reviewed by Gershon Galil
John H. Elliott, The Elect and the Holy: An Exegetical Examination of 1 Peter 2:4–10 and the Phrase Basileion Hierateuma
Reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus
Natalie B. Dohrmann and David Stern, eds., Jewish Biblical Interpretation and Cultural Exchange: Comparative Exegesis in Context
Reviewed by Jeffrey L. Morrow
Carl N. Toney, Paul’s Inclusive Ethic: Resolving Community Conflicts and Promoting Mission in Romans 14–15
Reviewed by James R. Harrison
Francesca Stavrakopoulou and John Barton, eds., Religious Diversity in Ancient Israel and Judah
Reviewed by Katharine Dell
Eric A. Seibert, Disturbing Divine Behavior: Troubling Old Testament Images of God
Reviewed by John E. Anderson
Mark Allan Powell, Introducing the New Testament: A Historical, Literary, and Theological Survey
Reviewed by Peter J. Judge
Luis Sanchez Navarro, ed., Pablo y Cristo: La centralidad de Cristo en el Pensamiento de san Pablo
Reviewed by Rodrigo Morales
Andreas J. Köstenberger, A Theology of John’s Gospel and Letters: The Word, the Christ, the Son of God
Reviewed by Craig R. Koester
Ernst Käsemann, On Being a Disciple of the Crucified Nazarene: Unpublished Lectures and Sermons
Reviewed by Wayne Coppins
Steven Fine, Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman World: Toward a New Jewish Archaeology
Reviewed by Joshua Schwartz
John Day, ed., Prophecy and the Prophets in Ancient Israel: Proceedings of the Oxford Old Testament Seminar
Reviewed by Hallvard Hagelia
Cornelis Bennema, Encountering Jesus: Character Studies in the Gospel of John
Reviewed by Francis J. Moloney, S.D.B.
Ellen van Wolde, Reframing Biblical Studies: When Language and Text Meet Culture, Cognition, and Context
Reviewed by Frank Polak
Gerd Theißen, Erleben und Verhalten der ersten Christen: Eine Psychologie des Urchristentums
Reviewed by Wayne Coppins
David Rosenberg, A Literary Bible: An Original Translation
Reviewed by John Engle
Thomas Römer, ed., The Books of Leviticus and Numbers
Reviewed by William A. Tooman
Mark Allan Powell, ed., Methods for Matthew
Reviewed by InHee Cho
Adrian Long, Paul and Human Rights: A Dialogue with the Father of the Corinthian Community
Reviewed by Ronald R. Clark
Michael Lattke, The Odes of Solomon
Reviewed by Majella Franzmann
Werner H. Kelber and Samuel Byrskog, eds., Jesus in Memory: Traditions in Oral and Scribal Perspectives
Reviewed by Stephan Witetschek
Youn Ho Chung, The Sin of the Calf: The Rise of the Bible’s Negative Attitude toward the Golden Calf
Reviewed by Raz Kletter
Matthew E. Carlton, Translator’s Reference Translation of the Gospel of Luke
Reviewed by Sylvie Raquel
Michael E. Stone, Aryeh Amihay, and Vered Hillel, eds., Noah and His Book(s)
Reviewed by Emma England
Reviewed by Anthony Swindell
Lawrence H. Schiffman, Qumran and Jerusalem: Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the History of Judaism
Reviewed by Sidnie White Crawford
Laura Salah Nasrallah, Christian Responses to Roman Art and Architecture: The Second-Century Church amid the Spaces of Empire
Reviewed by Rosemary Canavan
Reviewed by Lee M. Jefferson
Daniel A. Machiela, The Dead Sea Genesis Apocryphon: A New Text and Translation with Introduction and Special Treatment of Columns 13–17
Reviewed by Benjamin Ziemer
Edward W. Klink III, The Audience of the Gospels: The Origin and Function of the Gospels in Early Christianity
Reviewed by Theodore J. Weeden Sr.
Jason Kalman and Jaqueline S. du Toit, Canada’s Big Biblical Bargain: How McGill University Bought the Dead Sea Scrolls
Reviewed by Matthew A. Collins
Timothy Jay Johnson, Now My Eye Sees You: Unveiling an Apocalyptic Job
Reviewed by Scott C. Jones
David Lyle Jeffrey and C. Stephen Evans, eds., The Bible and the University
Reviewed by Jeffrey L. Morrow
John J. Collins, Beyond the Qumran Community: The Sectarian Movement of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Reviewed by Philip R. Davies
R. Steven Notley, Marc Turnage, and Brian Becker, eds., Jesus’ Last Week: Jerusalem Studies in the Synoptic Gospels—Volume One
Reviewed by Daniel M. Gurtner
Luke Timothy Johnson, The Writings of the New Testament: An Interpretation
Reviewed by Ken Olson
Leroy A. Huizinga, The New Isaac: Tradition and Intertextuality in the Gospel of Matthew
Reviewed by Russell C. D. Arnold
Heidi J. Hornik and Mikeal C. Parsons, Illuminating Luke: Volume 3: The Passion and Resurrection Narratives in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Painting
Reviewed by John F. A. Sawyer
Bengt Holmberg, ed., Exploring Early Christian Identity
Reviewed by Cornelis Bennema
G. Walter Hansen, The Letter to the Philippians
Reviewed by Angela Standhartinger
Everett Ferguson, Baptism in the Early Church: History, Theology, and Liturgy in the First Five Centuries
Reviewed by Hennie Stander
Kevin R. Brine, Elena Ciletti, and Henrike Lähnemann, eds., The Sword of Judith: Judith Studies across the Disciplines
Reviewed by Lawrence M. Wills
Johanna Brankaer, Coptic: A Learning Grammar (Sahidic)
Reviewed by Hans Förster
Patricia Elyse Terrell, Paul’s Parallels: An Echoes Synopsis
Reviewed by James D. G. Dunn
Sarah Shectman, Women in the Pentateuch: A Feminist and Source-Critical Analysis
Reviewed by Suzanne Boorer
Colleen Shantz, Paul in Ecstasy: The Neurobiology of the Apostle’s Life and Thought
Reviewed by Bert Jan Lietaert Peerbolte
Richard I. Pervo, The Making of Paul: Constructions of the Apostle in Early Christianity
Reviewed by James W. Aageson
Reviewed by Carolyn Osiek
Philip B. Payne, Man and Woman, One in Christ: An Exegetical and Theological Study of Paul’s Letters
Reviewed by Teresa Okure
Daniel R. Langton, The Apostle Paul in the Jewish Imagination: A Study in Modern Jewish-Christian Relations
Reviewed by Judith M. Lieu
Reviewed by Adele Reinhartz
S. Tamar Kamionkowski and Wonil Kim, eds., Bodies, Embodiment, and Theology of the Hebrew Bible
Reviewed by Johan H. Coetzee
Douglas S. Earl, Reading Joshua as Christian Scripture
Reviewed by Ernst Axel Knauf
John M. Dillon and Wolfgang Polleichtner, Iamblichus of Chalcis: The Letters
Reviewed by Ilaria L. E. Ramelli
Eugene Ulrich, ed., The Biblical Qumran Scrolls: Transcriptions and Textual Variants
Reviewed by Aaron D. Rubin
Gregory E. Sterling and David T. Runia, eds., The Studia Philonica Annual: Studies in Hellenistic Judaism, Volume XX
Reviewed by James E. Bowley
Daniel A. Smith, Revisiting the Empty Tomb: The Early History of Easter
Reviewed by Tony Costa
Thomas Römer, Jean-Daniel Macchi, and Christophe Nihan, eds., Introduction à l’Ancien Testament
Reviewed by John Engle
Stanley E. Porter and Matthew Brook O’Donnell, eds., The Linguist as Pedagogue: Trends in the Teaching and Linguistic Analysis of the Greek New Testament
Reviewed by Buist M. Fanning
Eckart Otto, Die Tora: Studien zum Pentateuch: Gesammelte Schriften
Reviewed by Reinhard Achenbach
J. Gordon McConville and Stephen Williams, Joshua
Reviewed by Ernst Axel Knauf
Reinhard G. Kratz and Hermann Spieckermann, eds., Divine Wrath and Divine Mercy in the World of Antiquity
Reviewed by Michael S. Moore
Brigitte Kahl, Galatians Re-imagined: Reading with the Eyes of the Vanquished
Reviewed by Eric Noffke
Harry A. Hoffner Jr., Letters from the Hittite Kingdom
Reviewed by Luděk Vacín
A. R. George, Babylonian Literary Texts in the Schoyen Collection
Reviewed by Alan Lenzi
Chris Franke and Julia M. O’Brien, eds., Aesthetics of Violence in the Prophets
Reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer
Harry T. Fleddermann, Q: A Reconstruction and Commentary
Reviewed by Leslie Robert Keylock
Athalya Brenner and Frank H. Polak, eds., Performing Memory in Biblical Narrative and Beyond
Reviewed by Ovidiu Creanga
Elie Assis, Flashes of Fire: A Literary Analysis of the Song of Songs
Reviewed by Francis Landy
Kevin J. Vanhoozer, ed., Theological Interpretation of the Old Testament: A Book-by-Book Survey
Reviewed by William A. Tooman
Richard N. Soulen, Sacred Scripture: A Short History of Interpretation
Reviewed by Sean Kealy
Edward Kessler, An Introduction to Jewish-Christian Relations
Reviewed by D. Andrew Kille
Philip Peter Jenson, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah: A Theological Commentary
Reviewed by Michael D. Matlock
Reviewed by Daniel L. Smith-Christopher
Anders-Christian Jacobsen, ed., The Discursive Fight over Religious Texts in Antiquity
Reviewed by Matteo Grosso
Robert D. Holmstedt, Ruth: A Handbook on the Hebrew Text
Reviewed by Marjo C. A. Korpel
R. T. France, The Gospel of Matthew
Reviewed by Leslie Robert Keylock
Athalya Brenner, Archie Chi Chung Lee, and Gale A. Yee, eds., Genesis
Reviewed by Phillip Michael Sherman
Paul Borgman, David, Saul, and God: Rediscovering an Ancient Story
Reviewed by Andrew E. Steinmann
Pierre Bordreuil and Dennis Pardee, A Manual of Ugaritic
Reviewed by Ian Young and Lucy Davey
David A. Bernat, Sign of the Covenant: Circumcision in the Priestly Tradition
Reviewed by Michael Hundley
Rob Barrett, Disloyalty and Destruction: Religion and Politics in Deuteronomy and the Modern World
Reviewed by Jerry Hwang
Bertil Albrektson, Text, Translation, Theology: Selected Essays on the Hebrew Bible
Reviewed by Corrado Martone
Felipe Blanco Wißmann, “Er tat das Rechte”: Beurteilungskriterien und Deuteronomismus in 1Kön 12–2Kön 25
Reviewed by Mark W. Hamilton
Amy C. Merrill Willis, Dissonance and the Drama of Divine Sovereignty in the Book of Daniel
Reviewed by Jordan M. Scheetz
Bruce Wells and F. Rachel Magdalene, eds., Law from the Tigris to the Tiber: The Writings of Raymond Westbrook
Reviewed by Anselm Hagedorn
Graham H. Twelftree, People of the Spirit: Exploring Luke’s View of the Church
Reviewed by Gregory R. Perry
Todd D. Still and David G. Horrell, eds., After the First Urban Christians: The Social-Scientific Study of Pauline Christianity Twenty-Five Years Later
Reviewed by Ronald R. Clark
Heikki Räisänen, The Rise of Christian Beliefs: The Thought World of Early Christians
Reviewed by James D. G. Dunn
Stanley E. Porter, Dictionary of Biblical Criticism and Interpretation
Reviewed by Jan G. van der Watt
Anthony Robert Petterson, Behold Your King: The Hope for the House of David in the Book of Zechariah
Reviewed by Francis Dalrymple-Hamilton
Peter Oakes, Reading Romans in Pompeii: Paul’s Letter at Ground Level
Reviewed by Steven A. Hunt
Andrew B. McGowan, Brian E. Daley, and Timothy J. Gaden, eds., God in Early Christian Thought: Essays in Memory of Lloyd G. Patterson
Reviewed by Mark DelCogliano
Jo Ann Hackett, A Basic Introduction to Biblical Hebrew
Reviewed by Bernard M. Levinson
Reviewed by James Robson
Claire Clivaz, L’ange et la sueur de sang (Lc 22,43–44): Ou comment on pourrait bien encore écrire l’histoire
Reviewed by Andrew Gregory
Michael F. Bird, Jesus and the Origins of the Gentile Mission
Reviewed by Craig A. Evans