Review of Biblical Literature Blog

Frank Ueberschaer, Weisheit aus der Begegnung: Bildung nach dem Buch Ben Sira Reviewed by Ibolya Balla

Stephen H. Travis, Christ and the Judgement of God: The Limits of Divine Retribution in New Testament Thought Reviewed by Christop...

Anthony C. Thiselton, Hermeneutics: An Introduction Reviewed by Ruben Zimmermann and Susanne Luther

M. E. J. Richardson, A Comprehensive Grammar to Hammurabi’s Stele Reviewed by Russell Hobson

Edgar V. McKnight, Jesus Christ Today: The Historical Shaping of Jesus for the Twenty-First Century Reviewed by Roy W. Hoover

W. G. Lambert, Babylonian Oracle Questions Reviewed by Frauke Weiershaeuser

Jörg Frey, Stefan Krauter, and Hermann Lichtenberger, eds., Heil und Geschichte: Die Geschichtsbezogenheit des Heils und das Problem der H...

David J. Downs, The Offering of the Gentiles: Paul’s Collection for Jerusalem in Its Chronological, Cultural, and Cultic Contexts Review...

Delbert Burkett, Rethinking the Gospel Sources, Volume 2: The Unity and Plurality of Q Reviewed by Christopher W. Skinner

Pasquale Basta, Abramo in Romani 4: L’analogia dell’agire divino nella ricerca esegetica di paolo Reviewed by Ilaria Ramelli

John W. Yates, The Spirit and Creation in Paul Reviewed by James Miller

Adam Winn, The Purpose of Mark’s Gospel: An Early Christian Response to Roman Imperial Propaganda Reviewed by Warren Carter

Giuseppe Pulcinelli, La morte di Gesù come espiazione: La concezione paolina Reviewed by Giovanni Bazzana

David Paul Parris, Reception Theory and Biblical Hermeneutics Reviewed by Christopher Rowland

J. Gerald Janzen, At the Scent of Water: The Ground of Hope in the Book of Job Reviewed by Suzanne Boorer

Marlies Heinz and Marian H. Feldman, eds., Representations of Political Power: Case Histories from Times of Change and Dissolving Orde...

Fredrik Hägglund, Isaiah 53 in the Light of Homecoming after Exile Reviewed by Ulrich Berges

Paul F. Bradshaw, Reconstructing Early Christian Worship Reviewed by Tony Costa

Alejandro F. Botta and Pablo R. Andiñach, eds., The Bible and the Hermeneutics of Liberation Reviewed by Jonathan Draper

Alejandro F. Botta, The Aramaic and Egyptian Legal Traditions at Elephantine: An Egyptological Approach Reviewed by Margaretha Folmer

Martin Vahrenhorst, Kultische Sprache in den Paulusbriefen Reviewed by Christoph Stenschke

John Fleter Tipei, The Laying on of Hands in the New Testament: Its Significance, Techniques, and Effects Reviewed by Panayotis Co...

Andrew Steinmann, Daniel Reviewed by Ian Young

Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Democratizing Biblical Studies: Toward an Emancipatory Educational Space Reviewed by Daniel Smith...

Benjamin E. Reynolds, The Apocalyptic Son of Man in the Gospel of John Reviewed by William O. Walker Jr.

Denis Minns and Paul Parvis, eds., Justin, Philosopher and Martyr: Apologies Reviewed by Paul Foster

Giulio Maspero, Trinity and Man: Gregory of Nyssa’s Ad Ablabium Reviewed by Mark DelCogliano

Joel Marcus, Mark 8–16: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary Reviewed by William Telford

Amy-Jill Levine, ed., A Feminist Companion to Patristic Literature Reviewed by Judith Lieu

James Allen Hewett, New Testament Greek: A Beginning and Intermediate Grammar Reviewed by Francis Dalrymple-Hamilton

Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg, Sustaining Fictions: Intertextuality, Midrash, Translation, and the Literary Afterlife of the Bible R...

Jeremy M. Schott, Christianity, Empire, and the Making of Religion in Late Antiquity Reviewed by by Todd Krulak

Shalom Paul, Isaiah 40–66: A Commentary [Hebrew] Reviewed by by Benjamin D. Sommer

Nathan MacDonald, Richard Bauckham, Daniel R. Driver, and Trevor A. Hart, eds., The Epistle to the Hebrews and Christian Theology Re...

Christina M. Kreinecker, Zeugen der Auferstehungsberichte Reviewed by by James M. Leonard

Karen L. King, The Secret Revelation of John Reviewed by by Douglas M. Parrott

Pieter W. van der Horst and Judith H. Newman, eds., Early Jewish Prayers in Greek Reviewed by by Judith Lieu

A. Joseph Everson and Hyun Chul Paul Kim, eds., The Desert Will Bloom: Poetic Visions in Isaiah Reviewed by by Uwe Becker

Elisa Estèvez Lòpez, Mediadoras de sanación: Encuentros entre Jesús y las mujeres: Una nueva mirada Reviewed by by Stephan Witetschek

Jan M. Bremmer, ed., The Strange World of Human Sacrifice Reviewed by by David Frankfurter

Günter Stemberger, Juden und Christen im spätantiken Palästina Reviewed by Peter J. Tomson

Michael Sokoloff, A Syriac Lexicon: A Translation from the Latin, Correction, Expansion, and Update of C. Brockelmann’s Lexicon Syriacum ...

William A. Simmons, Peoples of the New Testament World: An Illustrated Guide Reviewed by James Riley Strange

Jacques van Ruiten and J. Cornelis de Vos, eds., The Land of Israel in Bible, History, and Theology: Studies in Honour of Ed Noort Re...

William D. Mounce, Basics of Biblical Greek: Grammar Reviewed by Laurence M. Vance

Ulrike Mittmann-Richert, Der Sühnetod des Gottesknechts: Jesaja 53 im Lukasevangelium Reviewed by Christoph Stenschke

Alan S. Kaye, ed., Morphologies of Asia and Africa (2 vols.) Reviewed by Robert Holmstedt

E. A. Judge, The First Christians in the Roman World: Augustan and New Testament Essays Reviewed by Everett Ferguson

Charles B. Cousar, Philippians and Philemon: A Commentary Reviewed by Eduard Verhoef

Mara H. Benjamin, Rosenzweig’s Bible: Reinventing Scripture for Jewish Modernity Reviewed by Mark Elliott

Magnus Zetterholm, ed., The Messiah in Early Judaism and Christianity Reviewed by Adam Winn

Terry R. Wright, The Genesis of Fiction: Modern Novelists as Biblical Interpreters Reviewed by James A. Metzger

David P. Wright, Inventing God’s Law: How the Covenant Code of the Bible Used and Revised the Laws of Hammurabi Reviewed by Frank...

Russell Pregeant, Encounter with the New Testament: An Interdisciplinary Approach Reviewed by Abson Joseph

Rivka Nir, ed., Early Christianity: The First Three Centuries [Hebrew] Reviewed by Joshua Schwartz

Richard R. Losch, All the People in the Bible: An A–Z Guide to the Saints, Scoundrels, and Other Characters in Scripture Reviewed by...

Amy-Jill Levine, Dale Allison, and John Dominic Crossan, eds., The Historical Jesus in Context Reviewed by Shelly Matthews

Anne-Marie Korte and Maaike de Haardt, eds., The Boundaries of Monotheism: Interdisciplinary Explorations into the Foundations of Western ...

Sara Japhet, The Ideology of the Book of Chronicles and Its Place in Biblical Thought Reviewed by Louis C. Jonker

Richard A. Freund and Rami Arav, eds., Bethsaida: A City by the North Shore of the Sea of Galilee Reviewed by Wolfgang Zwickel

Carl S. Ehrlich, ed., From an Antique Land: An Introduction to Ancient Near Eastern Literature Reviewed by Aren Maeir

Dan W. Clanton Jr., Daring, Disreputable and Devout: Interpreting the Hebrew Bible’s Women in the Arts and Music Reviewed by Dorothea Erbe...

David Wardle, Cicero: On Divination Book 1 Reviewed by Stephen Bedard

John H. Walton, ed., Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary: Old Testament (5 vols.) Reviewed by Trent C. Butler

Samuel A. Meier, Themes and Transformations in Old Testament Prophecy Reviewed by David G. Firth

Henri de Lubac, Medieval Exegesis, Volume 3: The Four Senses of Scripture Reviewed by John F. A. Sawyer

Nancy C. Lee and Carleen Mandolfo, eds., Lamentations in Ancient and Contemporary Cultural Contexts Reviewed by Douglas Watson

Thomas J. King, The Realignment of the Priestly Literature: The Priestly Narrative in Genesis and Its Relation to Priestly Legislation and...

Mark K. George, Israel’s Tabernacle as Social Space Reviewed by Frank H. Polak

Florentino García Martínez, ed., Echoes from the Caves: Qumran and the New Testament Reviewed by Anders Klostergaard Petersen

David Flusser, Judaism of the Second Temple Period: Volume 2: The Jewish Sages and Their Literature Reviewed by Peter J. Tomson

Bogdan Gabriel Bucur, Angelomorphic Pneumatology: Clement of Alexandria and Other Early Christian Witnesses Reviewed by James F. McGrath

Ben Witherington III, New Testament Rhetoric: An Introductory Guide to the Art of Persuasion in and of the New Testament Reviewed...

Baruch J. Schwartz, David P. Wright, Jeffrey Stackert, and Naphtali S. Meshel, eds., Perspectives on Purity and Purification in t...

Dorothy M. Peters, Noah Traditions in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Conversations and Controversies of Antiquity Reviewed by Claudia D. Berg...