Review of Biblical Literature Blog: August 2016

Raymond Westbrook; Deborah Lyons and Kurt Raaflaub, eds., Ex Oriente Lex: Near Eastern Influences on Ancient Greek and Roman Law
Reviewed by Pamela Barmash

Mary E. Mills, Jeremiah: Prophecy in a Time of Crisis
Reviewed by Mark E. Biddle

Francis Martin and William M. Wright IV, The Gospel of John
Reviewed by Marianne Meye Thompson

Rolf A. Jacobson and Karl N. Jacobson, Invitation to the Psalms: A Reader's Guide for Discovery and Engagement
Reviewed by John E. Anderson

Debra Ballentine, The Conflict Myth and the Biblical Tradition
Reviewed by Bernard F. Batto

Charles Anthony Stewart, Thomas W. Davis, and Annemarie Weyl Carr, eds., Cyprus and the Balance of Empires: Art and Archaeology from Justinian I to the Coeur de Lion
Reviewed by Young Richard Kim

Jutta Noetzel, Maleachi, ein Hermeneut
Reviewed by Thomas Hieke

James R. McConnell Jr., The topos of Divine Testimony in Luke-Acts
Reviewed by Kyle R. Hughes

Michael Lyons, An Introduction to the Study of Ezekiel
Reviewed by J. Michael Thigpen

George A. Kiraz and Joseph Bali, eds.; Gillian Greenberg and Donald M. Walter, trans., Ezekiel according to the Syriac Peshitta Version with English Translation
Reviewed by Jerome A. Lund

Jonathan I. Griffiths, Hebrews and Divine Speech
Reviewed by Bryan J. Whitfield

Rodney J. Decker, Mark 1–8: A Handbook on the Greek Text
Reviewed by J. Andrew Doole

Raimo Hakola, Nina Nikki, and Ulla Tervahauta, eds., Others and the Construction of Early Christian Identities
Reviewed by Benjamin H. Dunning

Thomas B. Dozeman, Craig A. Evans, and Joel N. Lohr, eds., The Book of Exodus: Composition, Reception, and Interpretation
Reviewed by Jeffrey L. Morrow

R. Alan Culpepper and Paul N. Anderson, eds., Communities in Dispute: Current Scholarship on the Johannine Epistles
Reviewed by Toan Do
Reviewed by Jan A. du Rand

Mark A. Chancey, Carol Meyers, and Eric M. Meyers, eds., The Bible in the Public Square: Its Enduring Influence in American Life
Reviewed by Jeffrey S. Siker

Carlos Raúl Sosa Siliezar, Creation Imagery in the Gospel of John
Reviewed by R. Alan Culpepper

Safwat Marzouk, Egypt as a Monster in the Book of Ezekiel
Reviewed by Amy Kalmanofsky

Michael Lyons, An Introduction to the Study of Ezekiel
Reviewed by Corrine Carvalho

Jack R. Lundbom, Jeremiah: Prophet Like Moses
Reviewed by Leslie C. Allen

Paul M. Joyce and Dalit Rom-Shiloni, eds., The God Ezekiel Creates
Reviewed by J. Michael Thigpen

Albert C. Geljon and Riemer Roukema, eds., Violence in Ancient Christianity: Victims and Perpetrators
Reviewed by Kimberly B. Stratton

Katie Edwards, Rethinking Biblical Literacy
Reviewed by Valarie H. Ziegler

Walter Brueggemann; Davis Hankins, ed., Ice Axes for Frozen Seas: A Biblical Theology of Provocation
Reviewed by Joy A. Schroeder

Roland Boer, The Sacred Economy of Ancient Israel
Reviewed by K. L. Noll

Ellen Bradshaw Aitken and John M. Fossey, eds., The Levant: Crossroads of Late Antiquity. History, Religion and Archaeology
Reviewed by Jürgen Zangenberg

Giorgio Agamben, Pilate and Jesus
Reviewed by Roland Boer