Review of Biblical Literature Blog: July 2020

Jennifer S. Wyant, Beyond Mary or Martha: Reclaiming Ancient Models of Discipleship
Reviewed by Jennifer Knust

Antoinette Clark Wire, 2 Corinthians
Reviewed by Annelies Moeser

Leonard J. Swidler, Three Jesus Certitudes: Pacifism, Feminism, and the Birth of Christianity
Reviewed by James F. McGrath

V. George Shillington, James and Paul: The Politics of Identity at the Turn of the Ages
Reviewed by James Hanson

Matthew McAffee, Life and Mortality in Ugaritic: A Lexical and Literary Study
Reviewed by Timothy Hogue

John R. Levison, The Holy Spirit before Christianity
Reviewed by Richard S. Briggs

Susanne Gillmayr-Bucher and Maria Häusl, eds., Prayers and the Construction of Israelite Identity
Reviewed by Carol A. Newsom

Daniel Castelo and Robert W. Wall, The Marks of Scripture: Rethinking the Nature of the Bible
Reviewed by J. Michael Thigpen

Walter Ameling, Hannah M. Cotton, Werner Eck, Avner Ecker, Benjamin Isaac, Alla Kushnir-Stein, Haggai Misgav, Jonathan Price, Peter Weiß, and Ada Yardeni, eds., Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palestinae, Volume 4: Iudaea/Idumaea
Reviewed by Lester L. Grabbe

James W. S. Yansen Jr., Daughter Zion’s Trauma: A Trauma-Informed Reading of the Book of Lamentations

Reviewed by Barbara Bakke Kaiser

Nicole L. Tilford, ed., Women and the Society of Biblical Literature

Reviewed by Alice Ogden Bellis

Jens Schröter, Simon Butticaz, and Andreas Dettwiler, eds., Receptions of Paul in Early Christianity: The Person of Paul and His Writings through the Eyes of His Early Interpreters

Reviewed by Benjamin A. Edsall

David G. Peterson, Commentary on Romans

Reviewed by Andrew B. Spurgeon

Ralph J. Korner, The Origin and Meaning of Ekklēsia in the Early Jesus Movement

Reviewed by James R. Harrison

Benedikt Eckhardt, ed., Private Associations and Jewish Communities in the Hellenistic and Roman Cities

Reviewed by John S. Kloppenborg

Ruth Ebach and Martin Leuenberger, eds., Tradition(en) im alten Israel: Konstruktion, Transmission und Transformation

Reviewed by Peter Porzig

Brian J. Arnold, Justification in the Second Century

Reviewed by Chris Kugler

Maxime Allard, Emmanuel Durand, and Marie de Lovinfosse, eds., Fins et commencements, Renvois et interactions: Mélanges offerts à Michel Gourgues

Reviewed by Jean-François Racine

D. H. Williams, Matthew: Interpreted by Early Christian Commentators
Reviewed by Tobias Ålöw

James W. Watts, Understanding the Pentateuch as a Scripture
Reviewed by Jean Louis Ska

John C. Reeves and Annette Yoshiko Reed, Enoch from Antiquity to the Middle Ages: Sources from Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Reviewed by Theron Clay Mock III

Martti Nissinen, Prophets and Prophecy in the Ancient Near East
Reviewed by Bob Becking

John R. L. Moxon, Peter’s Halakhic Nightmare
Reviewed by David Lertis Matson

Ágnes T. Mihálykó, The Christian Liturgical Papyri: An Introduction
Reviewed by Jade Weimer

Jessica M. Keady, Todd E. Klutz, and C. A. Strine, eds., Scripture as Social Discourse: Social-Scientific Perspectives on Early Jewish and Christian Writings
Reviewed by Dominic S. Irudayaraj

Alisa Hunt and Hilary Marlow, eds., Ecology and Theology in the Ancient World: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
Reviewed by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson

Brian J. Arnold, Justification in the Second Century
Reviewed by H. H. Drake Williams III

Edward W. Watson and Martin M. Culy, Quoting Corinthians: Identifying Slogans and Quotations in 1 Corinthians
Reviewed by H. H. Drake Williams III

Peter J. Tomson, Studies on Jews and Christians in the First and Second Centuries
Reviewed by Amy-Jill Levine

Jean-Louis Ska, A Basic Guide to the Old Testament
Reviewed by Andrew Steinmann

Annette Schellenberg and Thomas Krüger, eds., Sounding Sensory Profiles in the Ancient Near East
Reviewed by Margaret Cohen

Song-Mi Suzie Park, 2 Kings
Reviewed by Steven L. McKenzie

JoAnna M. Hoyt, Amos, Jonah, and Micah
Reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer

Shalom E. Holtz, Praying Legally
Reviewed by Alan Lenzi

Lutz Edzard, Manuel Sartori, and Philippe Cassuto, eds., Case and Mood Endings in Semitic Languages: Myth or Reality?
Reviewed by H. H. Hardy II

James D. G. Dunn, Jesus according to the New Testament
Reviewed by Tobias Ålöw

Aidan Dodson, Sethy I, King of Egypt: His Life and Afterlife
Reviewed by Nicky Nielsen

Cilliers Breytenbach, ed., God’s Power for Salvation: Romans 1,1–5,11
Reviewed by Gudrun Nassauer

Ben C. Blackwell, John K. Goodrich, and Jason Maston, eds., Reading Revelation in Context: John’s Apocalypse and Second Temple Judaism
Reviewed by Michael Naylor

Miles V. Van Pelt and Gary D. Pratico, Biblical Hebrew Vocabulary in Context
Reviewed by Sarah Baker

Geoffrey Herman and Jeffrey L. Rubenstein, eds., The Aggada of the Bavli and Its Cultural World
Reviewed by Joshua Schwartz

Paula Fredriksen, When Christians Were Jews: The First Generation
Reviewed by Joel Marcus

André Flury, Erzählungen von Schöpfung, Erzeltern und Exodus
Reviewed by Annette Schellenberg

James H. Charlesworth, ed., The Unperceived Continuity of Isaiah
Reviewed by Csaba Balogh

Bob Becking, Ezra-Nehemiah
Reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer