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Henning Graf Reventlow; Leo G. Perdue, trans., History of Biblical Interpretation, Volume 4: From the Englightenment to the Twentieth Century
Reviewed by Jeffrey L. Morrow
Barbara M. Leung Lai, Through the ‘I’-Window: The Inner Life of Characters in the Hebrew Bible
Reviewed by Frank H. Polak
Michael F. Bird, Colossians and Philemon
Reviewed by Rosemary Canavan
Ben Witherington III, What’s in the Word: Rethinking the Socio-rhetorical Character of the New Testament
Reviewed by Richard L. Rohrbaugh
Antoinette Clark Wire, The Case for Mark Composed in Performance
Reviewed by Larry W. Hurtado
Luis Sánchez Navarro, Testimonios del Reino: Evangelios Sinópticos y Hechos los Apóstoles
Reviewed by David E. C. Ford
Joshua N. Moon, Jeremiah’s New Covenant: An Augustinian Reading
Reviewed by Bob Becking
Elizabeth A. McCabe, ed., Women in the Biblical World: A Survey of Old and New Testament Perspectives
Reviewed by Joseph Oryshak
Dennis J. Horton, Death and Resurrection: The Shape and Function of a Literary Motif in the Book of Acts
Reviewed by Arie W. Zwiep
Lisbeth S. Fried, ed., Was 1 Esdras First? An Investigation into the Priority and Nature of 1 Esdras
Reviewed by Erik Eynikel
David Frankel, The Land of Canaan and the Destiny of Israel: Theologies of Territory in the Hebrew Bible
Reviewed by Phillip Sherman
Yitzhaq Feder, Blood Expiation in Hittite and Biblical Ritual: Origins, Context, and Meaning
Reviewed by Pekka Pitkänen
Mary Dove, ed., The Earliest Advocates of the English Bible: The Texts of the Medieval Debate
Reviewed by David G. Burke
James Riley Strange, The Moral World of James: Setting the Epistle in Its Greco-Roman and Judaic Environments
Reviewed by John S. Kloppenborg
Michael E. Stone, Ancient Judaism: New Visions and Views
Reviewed by Joseph Angel
Andrew E. Steinmann, Ezra and Nehemiah
Reviewed by Antje Labahn
Hershel Shanks, Freeing the Dead Sea Scrolls: And Other Adventures of an Archaeology Outsider
Reviewed by Matthew A. Collins
Tammi J. Schneider, An Introduction to Ancient Mesopotamian Religion
Reviewed by Andrew Riley
Thomas E. Phillips, Acts within Diverse Frames of Reference
Reviewed by Arie W. Zwiep
Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan and Tina Pippin, eds., Mother Goose, Mother Jones, Mommie Dearest: Biblical Mothers and Their Children
Reviewed by Melanie Howard
Richard A. Horsley, Jesus and the Powers: Conflict, Covenant, and the Hope of the Poor
Reviewed by Kevin B. McCruden
John Paul Heil, Hebrews: Chiastic Structures and Audience Response
Reviewed by Philip Church
Philip F. Esler, Sex, Wives, and Warriors: Reading Biblical Narrative with Its Ancient Audience
Reviewed by Brian Peterson
Jaroslav Rindos, He of Whom It Is Written: John the Baptist and Elijah in Luke
Reviewed by Clare K. Rothschild
Seth D. Postell, Adam as Israel: Genesis 1–3 as the Introduction to the Torah and Tanakh
Reviewed by John E. Anderson
Marty Alan Michelson, Reconciling Violence and Kingship: A Study of Judges and 1 Samuel
Reviewed by Klaas Spronk
Jack R. Lundbom, The Hebrew Prophets: An Introduction
Reviewed by Göran Eidevall
Tchavdar S. Hadjiev, The Composition and Redaction of the Book of Amos
Reviewed by Beth Stovell
James D. G. Dunn, Jesus, Paul, and the Gospels
Reviewed by Raymond F. Collins
Martin M. Culy, Echoes of Friendship in the Gospel of John
Reviewed by Anne M. O’Leary
Bob Becking and Susan Hennecke, eds., Out of Paradise: Eve and Adam and their Interpreters
Reviewed by Robert C. Kashow
Christopher Zoccali, Whom God Has Called: The Relationship of Church and Israel in Pauline Interpretation, 1920 to the Present
Reviewed by James D. G. Dunn
Steven Weitzman, Solomon: The Lure of Wisdom
Reviewed by Craig Bartholomew
Isaac S. D. Sassoon, The Status of Women in Jewish Tradition
Reviewed by Yael Shemesh
Gordon K. Oeste, Legitimacy, Illegitimacy, and the Right to Rule: Windows on Abimelech’s Rise and Demise in Judges 9
Reviewed by Trent C. Butler
Conleth Kearns, The Expanded Text of Ecclesiasticus: Its Teaching on the Future Life as a Clue to Its Origin
Reviewed by Bradley C. Gregory
Anselm C. Hagedorn and Andrew Mein, eds., Aspects of Amos: Exegesis and Interpretation
Reviewed by Tyler Mayfield
Michaela Geiger, Gottesräume: Die literarische und theologische Konzeption von Raum im Deuteronomium
Reviewed by J. Cornelis De Vos
Ron Cameron and Merrill P. Miller, eds., Redescribing Paul and the Corinthians
Reviewed by Antoinette Clark Wire
Brian J. Abasciano, Paul’s Use of the Old Testament in Romans 9.10–18: An Intertextual and Theological Exegesis
Reviewed by Stephen Moyise
Miles V. Van Pelt, English Grammar to Ace Biblical Hebrew
Reviewed by Hubert Keener
Bas van Os, Psychological Analyses and the Historical Jesus: New Ways to Explore Christian Origins
Reviewed by Wayne G. Rollins
Jonathan A. Moo, Creation, Nature and Hope in 4 Ezra
Reviewed by Karina Martin Hogan
Robert D. Miller II, Oral Tradition in Ancient Israel
Reviewed by Raymond F. Person Jr.
Gary D. Martin, Multiple Originals: New Approaches to Hebrew Bible Textual Criticism
Reviewed by Johann Cook
Douglas A. Knight, Law, Power, and Justice in Ancient Israel
Reviewed by Markus Witte
Philip A. Harland, ed., Travel and Religion in Antiquity
Reviewed by Lee Jefferson
Benjamin H. Dunning, Specters of Paul: Sexual Difference in Early Christian Thought
Reviewed by Peter-Ben Smit
David Crystal, Begat: The King James Bible and the English Language
Reviewed by Craig W. Tyson
Michael Bird and Michael Pahl, eds., The Sacred Text: Excavating the Texts, Exploring the Interpretations, and Engaging the Theologies of the Christian Scriptures
Reviewed by Sean A. Adams
Michael A. Salmeier, Restoring the Kingdom: The Role of God as the “Ordainer of Times and Seasons” in the Acts of the Apostles
Reviewed by Richard I. Pervo
Jonathan Y. Rowe, Michal’s Moral Dilemma: A Literary, Anthropological and Ethical Interpretation
Reviewed by Susanne Scholz
Thomas Römer, Dieu obscur: Cruauté, sexe et violence dans l’Ancien Testament
Reviewed by Delia Klingler
Kent Aaron Reynolds, Torah as Teacher: The Exemplary Torah Student in Psalm 119
Reviewed by Steven Dunn
Stuart Macwilliam, Queer Theory and the Prophetic Marriage Metaphor in the Hebrew Bible
Reviewed by Christine Mitchell
John S. Kloppenborg and Richard S. Ascough, eds., Greco-Roman Associations: Texts, Translations, and Commentary: Volume 1: Attica, Central Greece, Macedonia, Thrace
Reviewed by Alicia J. Batten
Jeffrey Burns; David Bers and Stephen Tree, eds., The Music of Psalms, Proverbs and Job in the Hebrew Bible: A Revised Theory of Musical Accents in the Hebrew Bible
Reviewed by Rebecca A. Mitchell and Matthew W. Mitchell
Don C. Benjamin, Stones and Stories: An Introduction to Archaeology and the Bible
Reviewed by Aren M. Maeir
Enam Al-Wer and Rudolf de Jong, eds., Arabic Dialectology: In Honour of Clive Holes on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday
Reviewed by John Kaltner
E. A. Myers, The Ituraeans and the Roman Near East: Reassessing the Sources
Reviewed by Mark A. Chancey
Tod Linafelt, Claudia V. Camp, and Timothy Beal, eds., The Fate of King David: The Past and Present of a Biblical Icon
Reviewed by Ilse Muellner
Thomas Kazen, Jesus and Purity Halakhah: Was Jesus Indifferent to Impurity?
Reviewed by Kevin McCruden
Murray J. Harris, Colossians and Philemon
Reviewed by Michael F. Bird
Martin Hallaschka, Haggai und Sacharja 1–8: Eine redaktionsgeschichtliche Untersuchung
Reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer
Catherine Gunsalus González, 1 and 2 Peter and Jude
Reviewed by Peter H. Davids
Mary L. Coloe and Tom Thatcher, eds., John, Qumran, and the Dead Sea Scrolls: Sixty Years of Discovery and Debate
Reviewed by John Painter
Wes Howard-Brook, “Come Out My People!”: God’s Call Out of Empire in the Bible and Beyond
Reviewed by Matthew Forrest Lowe
Peter Altmann, Festive Meals in Ancient Israel: Deuteronomy’s Identity Politics in Their Ancient Near Eastern Context
Reviewed by Stephen A. Reed
Vernon K. Robbins, Sea Voyages and Beyond: Emerging Strategies in Socio-rhetorical Interpretation
Reviewed by Dennis R. MacDonald
David Norton, The King James Bible: A Short History from Tyndale to Today
Reviewed by David G. Burke
Reviewed by John Engle
Rodrigo J. Morales, The Spirit and the Restoration of Israel: New Exodus and New Creation Motifs in Galatians
Reviewed by Sigurd Grindheim
Michaël N. van der Meer, Percy van Keulen, Wido van Peursen, Bas Ter Haar Romeny, eds., Isaiah in Context: Studies in Honour of Arie van der Kooij on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday
Reviewed by Mayer Gruber
Scot McKnight, The Letter of James
Reviewed by James P. Sweeney
Naomi Koltun-Fromm, Hermeneutics of Holiness: Ancient Jewish and Christian Notions of Sexuality and Religious Community
Reviewed by J. Edward Walters
John Goldingay, Old Testament Theology: Volume 3: Israel’s Life
Reviewed by Ovidiu Creanga
Terence E. Fretheim, Creation Untamed: The Bible, God, and Natural Disasters
Reviewed by Norman Habel
Jennifer G. Bird, Abuse, Power and Fearful Obedience: Reconsidering 1 Peter’s Commands to Wives
Reviewed by Torrey Seland
Robert Titley, A Poetic Discontent: Austin Farrer and the Gospel of Mark
Reviewed by Richard Pervo
Christopher D. Stanley, ed., The Colonized Apostle: Paul in Postcolonial Eyes
Reviewed by Matthew Forrest Lowe
Adiel Schremer, Brothers Estranged: Heresy, Christianity, and Jewish Identity in Late Antiquity
Reviewed by Peter J. Tomson
Jonathan Wyn Schofer, Confronting Vulnerability: The Body and the Divine in Rabbinic Ethics
Reviewed by Phillip Sherman
Michael R. Licona, The Resurrection of Jesus: A New Historiographical Approach
Reviewed by Daniel A. Smith
André LaCocque, The Captivity of Innocence: Babel and the Yahwist
Reviewed by Richard S. Briggs
Esther J. Hamori, “When Gods Were Men”: The Embodied God in Biblical and Near Eastern Literature
Reviewed by Michael B. Hundley
Blane Conklin, Oath Formulas in Biblical Hebrew
Reviewed by Yael Ziegler
Paul N. Anderson, The Riddles of the Fourth Gospel: An Introduction to John
Reviewed by Cornelis Bennema
Reinhard Achenbach and Martin Arneth, eds., »Gerechtigkeit und Recht zu üben« (Gen 18,19): Studien zur altorientalischen und biblischen Rechtsgeschichte, zur Religionsgeschichte Israels und zur Religionssoziologie: Festschrift für Eckart Otto zum 65. Geburtstag
Reviewed by John Engle
Naomi Tadmor, The Social Universe of the English Bible: Scripture, Society, and Culture in Early Modern England
Reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer
Anthony C. Swindell, Reworking the Bible: The Literary Reception-History of Fourteen Biblical Stories
Reviewed by Frank H. Polak
Gert J. Steyn and Dirk J. Human, eds., Psalms and Hebrews: Studies in Reception
Reviewed by Scott D. Mackie
Daniel O’Hare, “Have You Seen, Son of Man?”: A Study of the Translation and Vorlage of LXX Ezekiel 40–48
Reviewed by William Tooman
Kevin B. McCruden, Solidarity Perfected: Beneficent Christology in the Epistle to the Hebrews
Reviewed by Craig R. Koester
Michael C. Legaspi, The Death of Scripture and the Rise of Biblical Studies
Reviewed by Teresa Okure
Jože Krašovec, The Transformation of Biblical Proper Names
Reviewed by Jeremy Hutton
Gregg Gardner and Kevin L. Osterloh, eds., Antiquity in Antiquity: Jewish and Christian Pasts in the Greco-Roman World
Reviewed by Douglas Estes
John Drane, Introducing the Old Testament
Reviewed by Jordan M. Scheetz
Craig L. Blomberg, with Jennifer Foutz Markley, A Handbook of New Testament Exegesis
Reviewed by Jan G. van der Watt
Marti J. Steussy, Samuel and His God
Reviewed by Johannes Klein
Anders Runesson, Birger Olsson, Donald D. Binder, The Ancient Synagogue from Its Origins to 200 C.E.: A Source Book
Reviewed by Adele Reinhartz
Megan Bishop Moore and Brad E. Kelle, Biblical History and Israel’s Past: The Changing Study of the Bible and History
Reviewed by Bob Becking
Paul M. Joyce and Andrew Mein, eds., After Ezekiel: Essays on the Reception of a Difficult Prophet
Reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer
Manfred Görg, Mythos und Mythologie: Studien zur Religionsgeschichte und Theologie
Reviewed by Mark W. Hamilton
Giovanni Garbini, Introduzione all’ epigrafia semitica
Reviewed by André Lemaire
Anthony J. Frendo, Pre-exilic Israel, the Hebrew Bible, and Archaeology: Integrating Text and Artefact
Reviewed by Ralph K. Hawkins
Bruce N. Fisk, A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jesus: Reading the Gospels on the Ground
Reviewed by Timothy D. Howell
Roy E. Ciampa and Brian S. Rosner, The First Letter to the Corinthians
Reviewed by Korinna Zamfir
Michael Avioz, “I Sat Alone”: Jeremiah among the Prophets
Reviewed by Jerry Hwang