2013.12.20. Smith and Shapiro, Mount and Mountain
Michael Smith and Rami Shapiro, Mount and Mountain, Volume 1: A Reverend and a Rabbi Talk about the Ten Commandments
Reviewed by William Rutherford
Michael Smith and Rami Shapiro, Mount and Mountain, Volume 1: A Reverend and a Rabbi Talk about the Ten Commandments
Reviewed by William Rutherford
Phillip Michael Sherman, Babel’s Tower Translated: Genesis 11 and Ancient Jewish Interpretation
Reviewed by Bradley Embry
Stephen D. Moore and Yvonne Sherwood, The Invention of the Biblical Scholar: A Critical Manifesto
Reviewed by Matthew V. Novenson
Dominik Markl, Gottes Volk im Deuteronomium
Reviewed by Simone Paganini
Rolf A. Jacobson and Karl N. Jacobson, Invitation to the Psalms: A Reader’s Guide for Discovery and Engagement
Reviewed by David Firth
Bruno Dyck, Management and the Gospel: Luke’s Radical Message for the First and Twenty-First Centuries
Reviewed by Jack Barentsen
Ulrich F. Berges, The Book of Isaiah: Its Composition and Final Form
Reviewed by Bo H. Lim
Gary A. Anderson, Ruth A. Clements, and David Satran, eds., New Approaches to the Study of Biblical Interpretation in Judaism of the Second Temple Period and in Early Christianity
Reviewed by William A. Tooman
Philip Alexander, Armin Lange, and Renate Pillinger, eds., In the Second Degree: Paratextual Literature in Ancient Near Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Culture and Its Reflections in Medieval Literature
Reviewed by Anthony Swindell
Michael E. Stone, Armenian Apocrypha Relating to Abraham
Reviewed by Adam Carter McCollum
Christopher D. Stanley, ed., Paul and Scripture: Extending the Conversation
Reviewed by Howard Williams
Andreas Schuele, An Introduction to Biblical Aramaic
Reviewed by Ian Young
Maurice A. Robinson and Mark A. House, eds., Analytical Lexicon of New Testament Greek: Revised and Updated
Reviewed by Peter J. Judge
Richard Ounsworth, Joshua Typology in the New Testament
Reviewed by J. Cornelis de Vos
B. J. Oropeza, In the Footsteps of Judas and Other Defectors: The Gospels, Acts, and Johannine Letters
Reviewed by Markus Oehler
Edith M. Humphrey, Scripture and Tradition: What the Bible Really Says
Reviewed by Richard S. Briggs
L. Juliana M. Claassens, Mourner, Mother, Midwife: Reimagining God’s Delivering Presence in the Old Testament
Reviewed by Tim Bulkeley
Gerald L. Borchert, Jesus of Nazareth: Background, Witnesses, and Significance
Reviewed by Chris L. de Wet
Martin Williams, The Doctrine of Salvation in the First Letter of Peter
Reviewed by Jennifer G. Bird
Eric A. Seibert, The Violence of Scripture: Overcoming the Old Testament’s Troubling Legacy
Reviewed by Ralph K. Hawkins
Colleen Shantz and Rodney A. Werline, eds., Experientia, Volume 2: Linking Text and Experience
Reviewed by Scott D. Mackie
Daniel C. Olson, A New Reading of the Animal Apocalypse of 1 Enoch: “All Nations Shall be Blessed”
Reviewed by David R. Jackson
Susan E. Myers, ed., Portraits of Jesus: Studies in Christology
Reviewed by Francis J. Moloney
Jodi Magness, Seth Schwartz, Zeev Weiss, and Oded Irshai, eds., “Follow the Wise”: Studies in Jewish History and Culture in Honor of Lee I. Levine
Reviewed by Rami Arav
Yulin Liu, Temple Purity in 1–2 Corinthians
Reviewed by S. Aaron Son
Yung Suk Kim, ed., 1 and 2 Corinthians
Reviewed by Matthew R. Malcolm
Mercedes L. García Bachmann, Women at Work in the Deuteronomistic History
Reviewed by Susanne Scholz
Georg Fischer, Theologien des Alten Testaments
Reviewed by Martin Leuenberger
Thomas Willi, Israel und die Völker: Studien zur Literatur und Geschichte Israels in der Perserzeit
Reviewed by Michael Moore
Mike van Treek Nilsson, Expresión literaria del placer en la Biblia hebrea
Reviewed by César Melgar
Yvonne Sherwood, Biblical Blaspheming: Trials of the Sacred for a Secular Age
Reviewed by Francis Landy
Reinoud Oosting, The Role of Zion/Jerusalem in Isaiah 40–55: A Corpus-Linguistic Approach
Reviewed by Marvin A. Sweeney
vanThanh Nguyen, Peter and Cornelius: A Story of Conversion and Mission
Reviewed by Sean A. Adams
Jacob Milgrom and Daniel I. Block, Ezekiel’s Hope: A Commentary on Ezekiel 38–48
Reviewed by Steven S. Tuell
I. Howard Marshall, Volker Rabens, and Cornelis Bennema, eds., The Spirit and Christ in the New Testament and Christian Theology: Essays in Honor of Max Turner
Reviewed by James P. Sweeney
Ildefonso Lozano Lozano, Romanos 5: La vida de los justificados por la fe y su fundamento, la reconciliación por nuestro señor Jesucristo
Reviewed by David E. C. Ford
Lori Hope Lefkovitz, In Scripture: The First Stories of Jewish Sexual Identities
Reviewed by Deborah Rooke
Naomi Grunhaus, The Challenge of Received Tradition: Dilemmas of Interpretation in Radak’s Biblical Commentaries
Reviewed by David H. Aaron
David G. Firth and Philip S. Johnston, eds., Interpreting Deuteronomy: Issues and Approaches
Reviewed by Nathan MacDonald
Warren Carter, Seven Events That Shaped the New Testament World
Reviewed by Don Garlington
Marc Zvi Brettler, Peter Enns, and Daniel J. Harrington, The Bible and the Believer: How to Read the Bible Critically and Religiously
Reviewed by Greg Carey
Pieter J. J. Botha, Orality and Literacy in Early Christianity
Reviewed by Stephen Reed
Emily Arndt, Demanding Our Attention: The Hebrew Bible as a Source for Christian Ethics
Reviewed by Thomas Krüger
Paul Trebilco, Self-Designations and Group Identity in the New Testament
Reviewed by B. J. Oropeza
Jason M. Silverman, Persepolis and Jerusalem: Iranian Influence on the Apocalyptic Hermeneutic
Reviewed by Bob Becking
Jacques T. A. G. M. van Ruiten, Abraham in the Book of Jubilees: The Rewriting of Genesis 11:26–25:10 in the Book of Jubilees 11:14-23:8
Reviewed by John C. Endres, S.J.
Ishay Rosen-Zvi, The Mishnaic Sotah Ritual: Temple, Gender, and Midrash
Reviewed by Aaron Koller
Johannes Unsok Ro, ed., From Judah to Judea: Socio-economic Structures and Processes in the Persian Period
Reviewed by Jason M. Silverman
Luke Timothy Johnson, Prophetic Jesus, Prophetic Church: The Challenge of Luke-Acts to Contemporary Christians
Reviewed by Richard Pervo
Steven A. Hunt, ed., Perspectives on Our Father Abraham: Essays in Honor of Marvin R. Wilson
Reviewed by David M. Maas
Norman Habel, The Birth, the Curse and the Greening of Earth: An Ecological Reading of Genesis 1–11
Reviewed by Terence E. Fretheim
Laura Feldt, The Fantastic in Religious Narrative from Exodus to Elisha
Reviewed by Michael Hundley
James L. Crenshaw, Reading Job: A Literary and Theological Commentary
Reviewed by Richard G. Smith
Markus Bockmuehl, Simon Peter in Scripture and Memory: The New Testament Apostle in the Early Church
Reviewed by Jean-François Racine
Stéphanie E. Binder, Tertullian, On Idolatry and Mishnah Avodah Zarah: Questioning the Parting of the Ways between Christians and Jews
Reviewed by Michael Rosenberg
Beth A. Berkowitz, Defining Jewish Difference: From Antiquity to the Present
Reviewed by Joshua Schwartz
Hans-Ulrich Weidemann, ed., Er stieg auf den Berg … und lehrte sie (Mt 5,1f.): Exegetische und rezeptionsgeschichtliche Studien zur Bergpredigt
Reviewed by Edwin Broadhead
John F. A. Sawyer, Sacred Texts and Sacred Meanings: Studies in Biblical Language and Literature
Reviewed by Albert Wolters
Victor H. Matthews and James C. Moyer, The Old Testament: Text and Context
Reviewed by Aren M. Maeir
Joseph A. Marchal, ed., Studying Paul’s Letters: Contemporary Perspectives and Methods
Reviewed by Robert N. Stegmann
Deborah A. Green, The Aroma of Righteousness: Scent and Seduction in Rabbinic Life and Literature
Reviewed by Bálint Károly Zabán
Mary L. Coloe and Tom Thatcher, eds., John, Qumran, and the Dead Sea Scrolls: Sixty Years of Discovery and Debate
Reviewed by Jörg Frey
Brian Arthur Brown, Three Testaments: Torah, Gospel, and Quran
Reviewed by John Kaltner
Alexander Böhlig; Siegfried G. Richter and Peter Nagel, eds., Die Bibel bei den Manichäern und verwandte Studien
Reviewed by Jason Beduhn
Zoë Bennett and David B. Gowler, eds., Radical Christian Voices and Practice: Essays in Honour of Christopher Rowland
Reviewed by Yongbom Lee
Georg A. Walser, Jeremiah: A Commentary based on Ieremias in Codex Vaticanus
Reviewed by Michael Graves
Rick F. Talbott, Jesus, Paul, and Power: Rhetoric, Ritual, and Metaphor in Ancient Mediterranean Christianity
Reviewed by Jan Willem van Henten
Candida Moss, The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom
Reviewed by N. CLayton Croy
M. David Litwa, We Are Being Transformed: Deification in Paul’s Soteriology
Reviewed by Tony Costa
Theresa V. Lafferty, The Prophetic Critique of the Priority of the Cult: A Study of Amos 5:21–24 and Isaiah 1:10–17
Reviewed by Alphonso Groenewald
Matthew V. Johnson, James A. Noel, and Demetrius K. Williams, eds., Onesimus Our Brother: Reading Religion, Race, and Culture in Philemon
Reviewed by Emilia Zamfir
Daniel E. Fleming, The Legacy of Israel in Judah’s Bible: History, Politics, and the Reinscribing of Tradition
Reviewed by Matthew Suriano
Walter Brueggemann, Truth Speaks to Power: The Countercultural Nature of Scripture
Reviewed by Gerrie Snyman
Ulrich F. Berges, Isaiah: The Prophet and His Book
Reviewed by Marvin A. Sweeney
Roger Stronstad, The Charismatic Theology of St. Luke: Trajectories from the Old Testament to Luke-Acts
Reviewed by Richard I. Pervo
Chad S. Spigel, Ancient Synagogue Seating Capacities: Methodology, Analysis and Limits
Reviewed by Joshua Schwartz
Kenton L. Sparks, Sacred Word, Broken Word: Biblical Authority and the Dark Side of Scripture
Reviewed by Hector Avalos
Reviewed by Joel Stephen Williams
Gary A. Long, Grammatical Concepts 101 for Biblical Hebrew
Reviewed by Perry J. Oakes
Aaron W. Hughes, Abrahamic Religions: On the Uses and Abuses of History
Reviewed by Walter Brueggemann
Vahan S. Hovhanessian, ed., The Canon of the Bible and the Apocrypha in the Churches of the East
Reviewed by Lee Martin McDonald
Sidney Greidanus, Preaching Christ from Daniel: Foundations for Expository Sermons
Reviewed by Jordan M. Scheetz
Avraham Faust, The Archaeology of Israelite Society in Iron Age II
Reviewed by Aren M. Maeir
John J. Collins, Joel, Obadiah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi
Reviewed by Bradford A. Anderson
Johanna W. H. van Wijk-Bos, Reading Samuel: A Literary and Theological Commentary
Reviewed by Klaus-Peter Adam
J. Paul Sampley and Peter Lampe, eds., Paul and Rhetoric
Reviewed by Douglas Estes
Wilhelm Pratscher, ed., The Apostolic Fathers: An Introduction
Reviewed by Hennie Stander
Aliou Cissé Niang and Carolyn Osiek, eds., Text, Image, and Christians in the Graeco-Roman World: A Festschrift in Honor of David Lee Balch
Reviewed by Lee Jefferson
B. H. McLean, New Testament Greek: An Introduction
Reviewed by Daniel L. Smith
Nathan MacDonald, Mark W. Elliott, and Grant Macaskill, eds., Genesis and Christian Theology
Reviewed by Christopher B. Ansberry
Isaac Kalimi, New Perspectives on Ezra-Nehemiah: History and Historiography, Text, Literature, and Interpretation
Reviewed by Andrew E. Steinmann
Rahel Halabé, Hinneh: Biblical Hebrew the Practical Way http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8491 Reviewed by John Engle
Athalya Brenner and Gale A. Yee, eds., Exodus and Deuteronomy
Reviewed by Susanne Scholz
Yairah Amit, In Praise of Editing in the Hebrew Bible: Collected Essays in Retrospect
Reviewed by Richard G. Smith
Yair Zakovitch, Jacob: Unexpected Patriarch
Reviewed by Ronald Hendel
Jacqueline S. du Toit, Textual Memory: Ancient Archives, Libraries and the Hebrew Bible
Reviewed by Ingeborg Löwisch
Jonathan T. Pennington, Reading the Gospels Wisely: A Narrative and Theological Introduction
Reviewed by Cornelis Bennema
William E. Mierse, Temples and Sanctuaries from the Early Iron Age Levant: Recovery after Collapse
Reviewed by Jonathan S. Greer
Todd R. Hanneken, The Subversion of the Apocalypses in the Book of Jubilees
Reviewed by Robert Foster
Walter Groß and Erasmus Gaß, Studien zum Richterbuch und seinen Völkernamen
Reviewed by Trent C. Butler
James G. Crossley, Jesus in an Age of Neoliberalism: Quests, Scholarship and Ideology
Reviewed by Halvor Moxnes
David J. A. Clines and Ellen van Wolde, eds., A Critical Engagement: Essays on the Hebrew Bible in Honour of J. Cheryl Exum
Reviewed by George Savran
Lawrence Boadt, Reading the Old Testament: An Introduction
Reviewed by Richard G. Smith
Walter F. Taylor Jr., Paul, Apostle to the Nations: An Introduction
Reviewed by Matteo Grosso
Reviewed by Jason Weaver
Günther Schwab, Echtheitskritische Untersuchungen zu den vier kleineren Paulusbriefen
Reviewed by David Trobisch
Adele Reinhartz, Caiaphas the High Priest
Reviewed by Thomas Bergholz
William Loader, The New Testament on Sexuality
Reviewed by Lawrence DiPaolo
Jon D. Levenson, Inheriting Abraham: The Legacy of the Patriarch in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Reviewed by Sara Koenig
Matthew D. Jensen, Affirming the Resurrection of the Incarnate Christ: A Reading of 1 John
Reviewed by Toan Do
Dominique Barthélemy, Studies in the Text of the Old Testament: An Introduction to the Hebrew Old Testament Text Project
Reviewed by John Engle
Manuel Villalobos Mendoza, Abject Bodies in the Gospel of Mark
Reviewed by Greg Carey
Thomas L. Thompson and Thomas S. Verenna, eds., ‘Is This Not the Carpenter?’: The Question of the Historicity of the Figure of Jesus
Reviewed by James F. McGrath
Jonathan Stökl, Prophecy in the Ancient Near East: A Philological and Sociological Comparison
Reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer
Pheme Perkins, Reading the New Testament: An Introduction
Reviewed by M. Eugene Boring
Sigmund Mowinckel, Religion and Cult: The Old Testament and the Phenomenology of Religion
Reviewed by Nicole Ruane
Richard Hidary, Dispute for the Sake of Heaven: Legal Pluralism in the Talmud
Reviewed by Kris Lindbeck
Camille Focant, The Gospel according to Mark: A Commentary
Reviewed by Geert Van Oyen
C. L. Crouch, War and Ethics in the Ancient Near East: Military Violence in Light of Cosmology and History
Reviewed by Tyler Mayfield
Johann Cook and Arie van der Kooij, Law, Prophets, and Wisdom: On the Provenance of Translators and Their Books in the Septuagint Version
Reviewed by Sean A. Adams
Jane S. Webster and Glenn S. Holland, eds., Teaching the Bible in the Liberal Arts Classroom
Reviewed by Phillip Sherman
James W. Thompson, Moral Formation according to Paul: The Context and Coherence of Pauline Ethics
Reviewed by David G. Horrell
Konrad Schmid, The Old Testament: A Literary History
Reviewed by Trent C. Butler
John J. Pilch, A Cultural Handbook to the Bible
Reviewed by Jacobus Kok
Marty Alan Michelson, Reconciling Violence and Kingship: A Study of Judges and 1 Samuel
Reviewed by Gregory Mobley
Ingrid E. Lilly, Two Books of Ezekiel: Papyrus 967 and the Masoretic Text as Variant Literary Editions
Reviewed by John Engle
Jan Joosten, Collected Studies on the Septuagint: From Language to Interpretation and Beyond
Reviewed by Sean A. Adams
John T. Carroll, Luke: A Commentary
Reviewed by Daniel L. Smith
G. K. Beale, A New Testament Biblical Theology: The Unfolding of the Old Testament in the New
Reviewed by Stephen Moyise
Judith Baskin and Kenneth Seeskin, eds., The Cambridge Guide to Jewish History, Religion, and Culture
Reviewed by Alan Avery-Peck
Andrew G. Shead, A Mouth Full of Fire: The Word of God in Jeremiah
Reviewed by Hallvard Hagelia
Rüdiger Lux, Hiob: Im Räderwerk des Bösen
Reviewed by Urmas Nommik
Yoo-Ki Kim, The Function of the Tautological Infinitive in Classical Biblical Hebrew
Reviewed by Hubert James Keener
Granville J. R. Kent, Say It Again, Sam: A Literary and Filmic Study of Narrative Repetition in 1 Samuel 28
Reviewed by Andrew Steinmann
Matthias Henze, ed., Hazon Gabriel: New Readings of the Gabriel Revelation
Reviewed by Aaron Koller
Larry R. Helyer, The Life and Witness of Peter
Reviewed by Timothy P. Henderson
Mark W. Elliott, The Heart of Biblical Theology: Providence Experienced
Reviewed by Mark McEntire
Christoph Dohmen, Studien zu Bilderverbot und Bildtheologie des Alten Testaments
Reviewed by Sven Petry
David Penchansky, Understanding Wisdom Literature: Conflict and Dissonance in the Hebrew Text
Reviewed by Peter Hatton
Peter Thacher Lanfer, Remembering Eden: The Reception History of Genesis 3:22–24
Reviewed by L. Michael Morales
Elizabeth Frood, Biographical Texts from Ramessid Egypt
Reviewed by Gerald Moers
Georg Fischer, Dominik Markl, and Simone Paganini, eds., Deuteronomium: Tora für eine neue Generation
Reviewed by Mark Christian
Scott S. Elliott and Roland Boer, eds., Ideology, Culture, and Translation
Reviewed by Lénart J. de Regt
Joachim Conrad, Karl Heinrich Grafs Arbeit am Alten Testament: Studien zu einer wissenschaftlichen Biographie
Reviewed by Jeffrey L. Morrow
Mark E. Biddle, Reading Judges: A Literary and Theological Commentary
Reviewed by Trent C. Butler
Reinhard von Bendemann and Markus Tiwald, eds., Das frühe Christentum und die Stadt
Reviewed by Stephan Witetschek
David J. H. Beldman and Craig G. Bartholomew, eds., Hearing the Old Testament: Listening for God’s Address
Reviewed by Jeanette Mathews
Johanna W. H. van Wijk-Bos, Reading Samuel: A Literary and Theological Commentary
Reviewed by Benjamin J. M. Johnson
Jean-Luc Vesco, Le Psautier de Jésus: Les citations des Psaumes dans le Nouveau Testament
Reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus
Christopher W. Skinner and Kelly R. Iverson, eds., Unity and Diversity in the Gospels and Paul: Essays in Honor of Frank J. Matera
Reviewed by Lars Kierspel
Gary S. Shogren, 1 and 2 Thessalonians
Reviewed by Jason Weaver
Yoram Hazony, The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture
Reviewed by Craig G. Bartholomew
Jaco Gericke, The Hebrew Bible and Philosophy of Religion
Reviewed by Christian Danz
Terry W. Eddinger, Malachi: A Handbook on the Hebrew Text
Reviewed by Buzz Brookman
Peter Arzt-Grabner and Christina M. Kreinecker, eds., Light from the East: Papyrologische Kommentare zum Neuen Testament. Akten des internationalen Symposions vom 3.–4. Dezember 2009 am Fachbereich Bibelwissenschaft und Kirchengeschichte der Universität Salzburg
Reviewed by Scott Charlesworth
Robert W. Wall, 1 and 2 Timothy and Titus
Reviewed by Raymond F. Collins
Don Thorsen and Keith H. Reeves, What Christians Believe about the Bible: A Concise Guide for Students
Reviewed by Peter J. Judge
Caryn A. Reeder, The Enemy in the Household: Family Violence in Deuteronomy and Beyond
Reviewed by Sung Jin Park
Candida Moss, Ancient Christian Martyrdom: Diverse Practices, Theologies, and Traditions
Reviewed by Jan Willem van Henten
Erhard S. Gerstenberger, Israel in the Persian Period: The Fifth and Fourth Centuries B.C.E.
Reviewed by Jason Silverman
Mark W. Elliott, Engaging Leviticus: Reading Leviticus Theologically with Its Past Interpreters
Reviewed by Bálint Károly Zabán
Joanne Clarke, On the Margins of Southwest Asia: Cyprus during the 6th to 4th Millennia BC
Reviewed by Allen Kerkeslager
Ronald P. Byars, The Sacraments in Biblical Perspective
Reviewed by Thomas Bergholz
Mark J. Boda and J. Gordon McConville, eds., Dictionary of the Old Testament: Prophets
Reviewed by Göran Eidevall
Mark R. Sneed, The Politics of Pessimism in Ecclesiastes: A Social-Science Perspective
Reviewed by Martin A. Shields
Peter Pilhofer, Neues aus der Welt der frühen Christen
Reviewed by Günter Röhser
B. J. Oropeza, Jews, Gentiles, and the Opponents of Paul: The Pauline Letters
Reviewed by Joseph Oryshak
Douglas E. Oakman, The Political Aims of Jesus
Reviewed by Tobias Hagerland
Christian Metzenthin, Jesaja-Auslegung in Qumran
Reviewed by Paul Sanders
Mark Leuchter and Jeremy M. Hutton, eds., Levites and Priests in Biblical History and Tradition
Reviewed by Pekka Pitkanen
Daniel E. Fleming, The Legacy of Israel in Judah’s Bible: History, Politics, and the Reinscribing of Tradition
Reviewed by Yitzhaq Feder
Reviewed by Frank H. Polak
Mersha Alehegne, The Ethiopian Commentary on the Book of Genesis: Critical Edition and Translation
Reviewed by James C. VanderKam
Pieter G. R. de Villiers and Jan Willem van Henten, eds., Coping with Violence in the New Testament
Reviewed by James Hanson
Saul M. Olyan, ed., Social Theory and the Study of Israelite Religion: Essays in Retrospect and Prospects
Reviewed by Bob Becking
Reviewed by Aren M. Maeir
David Emanuel, From Bards to Biblical Exegetes: A Close Reading and Intertextual Analysis of Selected Exodus Psalms
Reviewed by David G. Firth
Ben C. Dunson, Individual and Community in Paul’s Letter to the Romans
Reviewed by Jason Weaver
Yolanda Dreyer, Institutionalization of Authority and the Naming of Jesus
Reviewed by Yongbom Lee
Naftali S. Cohn, The Memory of the Temple and the Making of the Rabbis
Reviewed by Joshua Schwartz
Douglas A. Campbell, The Deliverance of God: An Apocalyptic Rereading of Justification in Paul
Reviewed by Jeffrey F. Cayzer
M. Eugene Boring, An Introduction to the New Testament: History, Literature, Theology
Reviewed by Pheme Perkins
Karin Hedner Zetterholm, Jewish Interpretation of the Bible: Ancient and Contemporary
Reviewed by Marianne Grohmann
Reviewed by Andrea L. Weiss
Kathleen M. O’Connor, Jeremiah: Pain and Promise
Reviewed by Bob Becking
Andrew B. McGowan and Kent Harold Richards, eds., Method and Meaning: Essays on New Testament Interpretation in Honor of Harold W. Attridge
Reviewed by Dennis R. MacDonald
Oded Lipschits, Gary N. Knoppers, and Manfred Oeming, eds., Judah and the Judeans in the Achaemenid Period: Negotiating Identity in an International Context
Reviewed by Frank H. Polak
Avraham Faust, Judah in the Neo-Babylonian Period: The Archaeology of Desolation
Reviewed by Ulrich Berges
G. K. Beale, Handbook on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament: Exegesis and Interpretation
Reviewed by Maarten J. J. Menken
Reviewed by Pheme Perkins
Richard S. Ascough, Philip A. Harland, and John S. Kloppenborg, Associations in the Greco-Roman World: A Sourcebook
Reviewed by Richard I. Pervo
Bálint Károly Zabán, The Pillar Function of the Speeches of Wisdom: Proverbs 1:20–33, 8:1–36 and 9:1–6 in the Structural Framework of Proverbs 1–9
Reviewed by James Alfred Loader
Daniel L. Smith-Christopher, Jonah, Jesus, and Other Good Coyotes: Speaking Peace to Power in the Bible
Reviewed by Joel Stephen Williams
Julien Smith, Christ the Ideal King: Cultural Context, Rhetorical Strategy, and the Power of Divine Monarchy in Ephesians
Reviewed by Keith A. Reich
Tracy J. McKenzie, Idolatry in the Pentateuch: An Innertextual Strategy
Reviewed by Sven Petry
Tat-siong Benny Liew, ed., Postcolonial Interventions: Essays in Honor of R. S. Sugirtharajah
Reviewed by Anthony Rees
Anke Inselmann, Die Freude im Lukasevangelium: Ein Beitrag zur psychologischen Exegese
Reviewed by Douglas A. Hume
Reinhard Feldmeier and Hermann Spieckermann, God of the Living: A Biblical Theology
Reviewed by M. Eugene Boring
Robert T. Anderson and Terry Giles, The Samaritan Pentateuch: An Introduction to Its Origin, History, and Significance for Biblical Studies
Reviewed by Magnar Kartveit
Reviewed by Reinhard Pummer
Linden E. Youngquist, Q 6:37–42: Not Judging—The Blind Leading the Blind—The Disciple and the Teacher—The Speck and the Beam
Reviewed by David Sloan
Zipora Talshir, ed., Israel and Its Land: Inscriptions and History: Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of Shmuel Ahituv on the Occasion of His Retirement [Hebrew]
Reviewed by Aren M. Maeir
Brent A. Strawn, ed., The Bible and the Pursuit of Happiness: What the Old and New Testaments Teach Us about the Good Life
Reviewed by Wayne G. Rollins
Carol A. Newsom, Sharon H. Ringe, and Jacqueline E. Lapsley, eds., Women’s Bible Commentary
Reviewed by Alice L. Laffey
David Lyle Jeffrey, ed., The King James Bible and the World It Made
Reviewed by Francis Dalrymple-Hamilton
Yoram Hazony, The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture
Reviewed by Steven Dunn
Maxine L. Grossman, ed., Rediscovering the Dead Sea Scrolls: An Assessment of Old and New Approaches and Methods
Reviewed by Laura Quick
Swift Edgar, ed., The Vulgate Bible, Volume 2: The Historical Books
Reviewed by Ralph K. Hawkins
Lawrence Boadt; Richard Clifford and Daniel Harrington, eds., Reading the Old Testament: An Introduction
Reviewed by Sarah Ward
Philippe Wajdenbaum, Argonauts of the Desert: Structural Analysis of the Hebrew Bible
Reviewed by Casper J. Labuschagne
David T. Runia and Gregory E. Sterling, eds., Studia Philonica Annual XXIV, 2012
Reviewed by Scott Mackie
Anthony B. Robinson and Robert W. Wall, Called to Lead: Paul’s Letters to Timothy for a New Day
Reviewed by James Howard
Iain Provan and Mark J. Boda, eds., Let Us Go Up to Zion: Essays in Honour of H. G. M. Williamson on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday
Reviewed by Keith Bodner
Jonathan T. Pennington, Reading the Gospels Wisely: A Narrative and Theological Introduction
Reviewed by Joel B. Green
Victor H. Matthews, The Hebrew Prophets and Their Social World: An Introduction
Reviewed by Aren M. Maeir
Reviewed by Stewart Moore
Daniel Marguerat, Lukas, der erste christliche Historiker: Eine Studie zur Apostelgeschichte
Reviewed by Thomas Bergholz
Matthias Konradt, Israel, Kirche und die Völker im Matthäusevangelium
Reviewed by Donald Senior
Richard B. Hays and Stefan Alkier, eds., Revelation and the Politics of Apocalyptic Interpretation
Reviewed by Greg Carey
Stephen C. Russell, Images of Egypt in Early Biblical Literature: Cisjordan-Israelite, Transjordan-Israelite, and Judahite Portrayals
Reviewed by Christopher Hays
Daniel Polz, Der Beginn des Neuen Reiches: Zur Vorgeschichte einer Zeitenwende
Reviewed by Roberto B. Gozzoli
Francis J. Moloney, The Gospel of Mark: A Commentary
Reviewed by Timothy Gombis
B. H. McLean, Biblical Interpretation and Philosophical Hermeneutics
Reviewed by Akio Ito
Bo H. Lim, The ‘Way of the LORD’ in the Book of Isaiah
Reviewed by Wilhelm J. Wessels
Donald H. Juel; Shane Berg and Matthew L. Skinner, eds., Shaping the Scriptural Imagination: Truth, Meaning, and the Theological Interpretation of the Bible
Reviewed by Ernest van Eck
Yitzhaq Feder, Blood Expiation in Hittite and Biblical Ritual: Origins, Context, and Meaning
Reviewed by William L. Lyons
Lincoln H. Blumell, Lettered Christians: Christians, Letters, and Late Antique Oxyrhynchus
Reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus
Edward Adams, Parallel Lives of Jesus: A Guide to the Four Gospels
Reviewed by Adam Winn
Davis A. Young and Ralph F. Stearley, The Bible, Rocks and Time: Geological Evidence for the Age of the Earth
Reviewed by David M. Maas
Martin C. Salter, The Power of Pentecost: An Examination of Acts 2:17–21
Reviewed by Chris L. de Wet
Anne Pasquier, Daniel Marguerat, and André Wénin, eds., L’intrigue dans le récit biblique: Quatrième colloque international du RRENAB, Université Laval, Québec, 29 mai–1er juin 2008
Reviewed by Johanna Brankaer
Hayim Lapin, Rabbis as Romans: The Rabbinic Movement in Palestine, 100–400 CE
Reviewed by Steven Fine
Douglas Harink, Paul, Philosophy, and the Theopolitical Vision: Critical Engagements with Agamben, Badiou, Žižek, and Others
Reviewed by Troels Engberg-Pedersen
Robert Gnuse, No Tolerance for Tyrants: The Biblical Assault on Kings and Kingship
Reviewed by James M. Bos
Radcliffe G. Edmonds III, The “Orphic” Gold Tablets and Greek Religion: Further along the Path
Reviewed by Edmund P. Cueva
Kristina Dronsch, Bedeutung als Grundbegriff neutestamentlicher Wissenschaft: Texttheoretische und semiotische Entwürfe zur Kritik der Semantik dargelegt anhand einer Analyse zu zu ἀκούειν in Mk 4
Reviewed by Sidney A. Martin II
Philip R. Davies and Diana Vikander Edelman, eds., The Historian and the Bible: Essays in Honour of Lester L. Grabbe
Reviewed by George C. Heider
Matthew A. Collins, The Use of Sobriquets in the Qumran Dead Sea Scrolls
Reviewed by Ian Werrett
Susan Sorek, Remembered for Good: A Jewish Benefaction System in Ancient Palestine
Reviewed by Carrie Elaine Duncan
Janet Smith, Dust or Dew: Immortality in the Ancient Near East and in Psalm 49
Reviewed by Ilaria L. E. Ramelli
Jordan M. Scheetz, The Concept of Canonical Intertextuality and the Book of Daniel
Reviewed by Philippus J. Botha
Reviewed by Don Collett
B. H. McLean, New Testament Greek: An Introduction
Reviewed by Hennie Stander
Pirjo Lapinkivi, The Neo-Assyrian Myth of Ištar’s Descent and Resurrection
Reviewed by James R. Getz Jr.
Frank Lothar Hossfeld and Eric Zenger, Psalms 3: A Commentary on Psalms 101–150
Reviewed by Leonard P. Maré
Walter Brueggemann; Carolyn J. Sharp, ed., Disruptive Grace: Reflections on God, Scripture, and the Church
Reviewed by S. D. Giere
Gary Yamasaki, Perspective Criticism: Point of View and Evaluative Guidance in Biblical Narrative
Reviewed by Robert C. Tannehill
Emily Teeter, Religion and Ritual in Ancient Egypt
Reviewed by Michael B. Hundley
Amy E. Richter, Enoch and the Gospel of Matthew
Reviewed by Daniel M. Gurtner
Jerome Murphy-O’Connor, Keys to Jerusalem: Collected Essays
Reviewed by Joshua Schwartz
Michelle J. Levine, Nahmanides on Genesis: The Art of Biblical Portraiture
Reviewed by George Savran
Edwin M. Good, Genesis 1–11: Tales of the Earliest World
Reviewed by Brian D. Russell
Erhard S. Gerstenberger, Israel in the Persian Period: The Fifth and Fourth Centuries B.C.E.
Reviewed by John Engle
Gerald J. Donker, The Text of the Apostolos in Athanasius of Alexandria
Reviewed by Chris De Wet
Keith Bodner, Jeroboam’s Royal Drama
Reviewed by Mark McEntire
Richard Bauckham, Living with Other Creatures: Green Exegesis and Theology
Reviewed by Phillip Sherman
Lisa M. Wolfe, Ruth, Esther, Song of Songs, and Judith
Reviewed by L. Juliana Claassens
Stanley E. Porter and Beth M. Stovell, eds., Biblical Hermeneutics: Five Views
Reviewed by Akio Ito
Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Transforming Vision: Explorations in Feminist The*logy
Reviewed by Elizabeth Min Hee Kim
Douglas E. Oakman, The Political Aims of Jesus
Reviewed by Alicia J. Batten
Halvor Moxnes, Jesus and the Rise of Nationalism: A New Quest for the Nineteenth Century Historical Jesus
Reviewed by Hans Leander
Siegfried Kreuzer, Martin Meiser, and Marcus Sigismund, eds., Die Septuaginta: Entstehung, Sprache, Geschichte. 3. Internationale Fachtagung veranstaltet von Septuaginta Deutsch (LXX.D), Wuppertal 22.–25. Juli 2010
Reviewed by Hans Förster
Mari Rapela Heidt, A Guide for Writing about Theology and Religion
Reviewed by Margaret E. Ramey
William G. Dever, The Lives of Ordinary People in Ancient Israel: Where Archaeology and the Bible Intersect
Reviewed by Diana Edelman
Reviewed by Aren M. Maeir
Ulrich Berges, Jesaja: Der Prophet und Das Buch
Reviewed by Francis Landy
Thomas P. Scheck, St. Jerome’s Commentaries on Galatians, Titus, and Philemon
Reviewed by Gerald Bray
Kathleen M. Rochester, Prophetic Ministry in Jeremiah and Ezekiel
Reviewed by Wilhelm J. Wessels
James D. Nogalski, The Book of the Twelve: Hosea–Jonah
Reviewed by Beth Stovell
Dennis R. MacDonald, Two Shipwrecked Gospels: The Logoi of Jesus and Papias’s Exposition of Logia about the Lord
Reviewed by John Kloppenborg Reviewed by James F. McGrath
Tremper Longman III, Introducing the Old Testament: A Short Guide to Its History and Message
Reviewed by Trent Butler
Melissa A. Jackson, Comedy and Feminist Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible: A Subversive Collaboration
Reviewed by Kathryn D. Blanchard
Michael Cameron, Christ Meets Me Everywhere: Augustine’s Early Figurative Exegesis
Reviewed by Blossom Stefaniw
Jeffrey Brodd and Jonathan L. Reed, eds., Rome and Religion: A Cross-Disciplinary Dialogue on the Imperial Cult
Reviewed by Edmund Cueva
Assaf Yasur-Landau, Jennie R. Ebeling, and Laura B. Mazow, eds., Household Archaeology in Ancient Israel and Beyond
Reviewed by Ralph K. Hawkins
Moshe Simon-Shoshan, Stories of the Law: Narrative Discourse and the Construction of Authority in the Mishnah
Reviewed by Joshua Schwartz
Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Transforming Vision: Explorations in Feminist The*logy
Reviewed by Daniel Darko
David Rhoads, Joanna Dewey, and Donald Michie, Mark as Story: An Introduction to the Narrative of a Gospel
Reviewed by Michael W. Pahl
Russell Pregeant, Reading the Bible for All the Wrong Reasons
Reviewed by Joel Stephen Williams
Kathleen M. O’Connor, Jeremiah: Pain and Promise
Reviewed by Wilhelm J. Wessels
Tobias Hägerland, Jesus and the Forgiveness of Sins: An Aspect of His Prophetic Mission
Reviewed by Dion Forster
Yoram Cohen, The Scribes and Scholars of the City of Emar in the Late Bronze Age
Reviewed by Bryan C. Babcock
David R. Bauer and Robert A. Traina, Inductive Bible Study: A Comprehensive Guide to the Practice of Hermeneutics
Reviewed by Justin Marc Smith
Allen P. Ross, Commentary on the Psalms, Volume 1: 1–41
Reviewed by Leonard Mare
Stanley E. Porter and Jason C. Robinson, Hermeneutics: An Introduction to Interpretive Theory
Reviewed by Anthony C. Thiselton
Rainer Metzner, Kaiphas. Der Hohepriester jenes Jahres: Geschichte und Deutung
Reviewed by Thomas Bergholz
Lars Hartman, Mark for the Nations: A Text- and Reader-Oriented Commentary
Reviewed by Robert M. Fowler
Daniel K. Falk, Sarianna Metso, Donald W. Parry, and Eibert J. C. Tigchelaar, eds., Qumran Cave 1 Revisited: Texts from Cave 1 Sixty Years after Their Discovery: Proceedings of the Sixth Meeting of the IOQS in Ljubljana
Reviewed by Samuel Thomas
Daniel Durken, ed., The New Collegeville Bible Commentary: New Testament
Reviewed by Ernest Van Eck
Aaron Demsky, Literacy in Ancient Israel [Hebrew]
Reviewed by David A. Glatt-Gilad
Darrell L. Bock, A Theology of Luke and Acts: God’s Promised Program, Realized for All Nations
Reviewed by Ulrich Busse
Pablo A. Torijano Morales and Andrés Piquer Otero, eds., Textual Criticism and Dead Sea Scrolls Studies in Honour of Julio Trebolle Barrera: Florilegium Complutense
Reviewed by Andrea Ravasco
Mark R. Sneed, The Politics of Pessimism in Ecclesiastes: A Social-Science Perspective
Reviewed by Robert Williamson Jr.
Angela R. Roskop, The Wilderness Itineraries: Genre, Geography, and the Growth of Torah
Reviewed by Nathan MacDonald
Frederick J. Murphy, Apocalypticism in the Bible and Its World: A Comprehensive Introduction
Reviewed by Adela Yarbro Collins
Reviewed by Marius Nel
B. H. McLean, Biblical Interpretation and Philosophical Hermeneutics
Reviewed by Richard S. Briggs
Tobias Hägerland, Jesus and the Forgiveness of Sins: An Aspect of his Prophetic Mission
Reviewed by William R. G. Loader
Claire Clivaz and Jean Zumstein, eds., Reading New Testament Papyri in Context - Lire des papyrus du Nouveau Testament dans leur contexte
Reviewed by Peter Arzt-Grabner
Robb Andrew Young, Hezekiah in History and Tradition
Reviewed by Ibolya Balla
Duane F. Watson and Terrance Callan, First and Second Peter
Reviewed by Travis B. Williams
Allen Verhey and Joseph S. Harvard, Ephesians
Reviewed by Earl Kellett
Deborah W. Rooke, Handel’s Israelite Oratorio Libretti: Sacred Drama and Biblical Exegesis
Reviewed by Helen Leneman
Shalom M. Paul, Isaiah 40–66: Translation and Commentary
Reviewed by Roy E. Gane
Jean-Daniel Macchi, Christophe Nihan, Thomas Römer, and Jan Rückl, eds., Les recueils prophétiques de la Bible: Origines, milieux, et contexte proche-oriental
Reviewed by James M. Bos
Andrés García Serrano, The Presentation in the Temple: The Narrative Function of Lk 2:22–39 in Luke-Acts
Reviewed by Sean Adams
Joëlle Ferry, Isaïe: “Comme les mots d’un livre scellé…”
Reviewed by Wilson de Angelo Cunha
Steed Vernyl Davidson, Empire and Exile: Postcolonial Readings of the Book of Jeremiah
Reviewed by Bob Becking
Michael Avioz, “I Sat Alone”: Jeremiah among the Prophets
Reviewed by Wilhelm Wessels
Robert H. Stein, A Basic Guide to Interpreting the Bible: Playing by the Rules
Reviewed by Bálint Károly Zabán
Matthew R. Schlimm, From Fratricide to Forgiveness: The Language and Ethics of Anger in Genesis
Reviewed by Phillip Sherman
Lester Ruth, Carrie Steenwyk, and John D. Witvliet, Walking Where Jesus Walked: Worship in Fourth-Century Jerusalem
Reviewed by Amy Donaldson
John S. Kloppenborg and Judith H. Newman, eds., Editing the Bible: Assessing the Task Past and Present
Reviewed by Marcus Sigismund
Craig S. Keener, Acts: An Exegetical Commentary, vol. 1: Introduction and 1:1–2:47
Reviewed by Richard I. Pervo
Reviewed by Daniel L. Smith
Reviewed by Joseph B. Tyson
Matthias Henze, ed., Hazon Gabriel: New Readings of the Gabriel Revelation
Reviewed by Ian Young
Katharine J. Dell, Brian A. Mastin, and James K. Aitken, eds., On Stone and Scroll: Essays in Honour of Graham Ivor Davies
Reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer
Daniel Boyarin, The Jewish Gospels: The Story of the Jewish Christ
Reviewed by Mark A. Matson
Jarvis J. Williams, Maccabean Martyr Traditions in Paul’s Theology of Atonement: Did Martyr Theology Shape Paul’s Conception of Jesus’s Death?
Reviewed by Jan Willem van Henten
Karlheinz Schüssler, ed., Biblia Coptica: Die koptischen Bibeltexte. Vollständiges Verzeichnis mit Standorten. Band 4/Lieferung 4: sa 721–780
Reviewed by Blossom Stefaniw
Stéphane Saulnier, Calendrical Variations in Second Temple Judaism: New Perspectives on the ‘Date of the Last Supper’ Debate
Reviewed by Helen Jacobus
Bruce W. Longenecker, Hearing the Silence: Jesus on the Edge and God in the Gap—Luke 4 in Narrative Perspective
Reviewed by Michal Beth Dinkler
Daniel C. Harlow, Karina Martin Hogan, Matthew Goff, and Joel S. Kaminsky, eds., The “Other” in Second Temple Judaism: Essays in Honor of John J. Collins
Reviewed by James D. G. Dunn
Daniel R. Driver, Brevard Childs, Biblical Theologian: For the Church’s One Bible
Reviewed by Philippus J. Botha
Deborah O’Daniel Cantrell, The Horsemen of Israel: Horses and Chariotry in Monarchic Israel
Reviewed by Raz Kletter
Eberhard Bons and Jans Joosten, eds., Septuagint Vocabulary: Pre-history, Usage, Reception
Reviewed by Francis Dalrymple-Hamilton
Reviewed by Daniel M. O’Hare