Review of Biblical Literature Blog

Brittany E. Wilson,  Unmanly Men: Refigurations of Masculinity in Luke-Acts Reviewed by Colleen Conway

L. L. Welborn,  Paul’s Summons to Messianic Life: Political Theology and the Coming Awakening Reviewed by Robert L. Brawley Reviewed by Al...

Peter J. Tomson and Joshua Schwartz, eds.,  Jews and Christians in the First and Second Centuries: How to Write Their History Reviewed by P...

Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer,  Zechariah and His Visions: An Exegetical Study of Zechariah’s Vision Report Reviewed by Albert M. Wolters

Michael J. Thate, Kevin J. Vanhoozer, and Constantine R. Campbell, eds.,  ‘In Christ’: Explorations in Paul’s Theology of Union and Particip...

Danny Syon,  Small Change in Hellenistic-Roman Galilee: The Evidence from Numismatic Site Finds as a Tool for Historical Reconstruction Rev...

Moshe Shamah,  Recalling the Covenant: A Contemporary Commentary on the Five Books of the Torah Reviewed by Ralph K. Hawkins

Konrad Schmid,  Is There Theology in the Hebrew Bible? Reviewed by John J. Collins

Volker Rabens,  The Holy Spirit and Ethics in Paul: Transformation and Empowering for Religious-Ethical Life Reviewed by Kenneth D. Litwak

Mark D. Nanos and Magnus Zetterholm, eds.,  Paul within Judaism: Restoring the First-Century Context to the Apostle Reviewed by A. Chadwick...

Andrew Mein, Else K. Holt, Hyun Chul Paul Kim, eds.,  Concerning the Nations: Essays on the Oracles against the Nations in Isaiah, Jeremiah ...

Joshua G. Mathews,  Melchizedek’s Alternative Priestly Order: A Compositional Analysis of Genesis 14:18–20 and Its Echoes throughout the Tan...

Thierry Legrand and Jan Joosten, eds.,  The Targums in the Light of Traditions of the Second Temple Period Reviewed by Simon Lasair

Paul-Gerhard Klumbies and David S. du Toit, eds.,  Paulus—Werk und Wirkung: Festschrift für Andreas Lindemann zum 70. Geburtstag Reviewed b...

William Johnstone,  Exodus 1–19 Reviewed by George G. Nicol

Robin M. Jensen and J. Patout Burns Jr.,  Christianity in Roman Africa: The Development of Its Practices and Beliefs Reviewed by Allen Kerk...

Bo Isaksson and Maria Persson, eds.,  Clause Combining in Semitic: The Circumstantial Clause and Beyond Reviewed by Frank H. Polak

John Harvey,  The Bible as Visual Culture: When Text Becomes Image Reviewed by Davina C. Lopez

Eric Douglass,  Reading the Bible Ethically: Recovering the Voice in the Text Reviewed by Walter Brueggemann

Joanna Dewey,  The Oral Ethos of the Early Church: Speaking, Writing, and the Gospel of Mark Reviewed by Werner H. Kelber

Sharon Betsworth,  Children in Early Christian Narratives Reviewed by A. James Murphy Reviewed by Robert H. von Thaden Jr.

Robert W. Wall and David R. Nienhuis, eds.,  A Compact Guide to the Whole Bible: Learning to Read Scripture’s Story Reviewed by Dirk G. van...

Sigmund Wagner-Tsukamoto,  The Economics of Paradise: On the Onset of Modernity in Antiquity Reviewed by Gerda de Villiers

Isaac S. D. Sassoon,  The Status of Women in Jewish Tradition Reviewed by Sarah Shectman

Erin Runions,  The Babylon Complex: Theopolitical Fantasies of War, Sex, and Sovereignty Reviewed by Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati

Paul L. Redditt,  Ezra-Nehemiah Reviewed by Lester L. Grabbe

Paul Overland,  Learning Biblical Hebrew Interactively Reviewed by Jeremy M. Hutton

Eric F. Mason and Troy W. Martin, eds.,  Reading 1–2 Peter and Jude: A Resource for Students Reviewed by Andrew M. Mbuvi

Adam Marshak,  The Many Faces of Herod the Great Reviewed by Erich S. Gruen

Jaeyoung Jeon,  The Call of Moses and the Exodus Story: A Redactional-Critical Study in Exodus 3–4 and 5–13 Reviewed by Danny Mathews

Dennis Hamm, SJ,  Philippians, Colossians, Philemon Reviewed by Lynn H. Cohick Reviewed by Roy R. Jeal

Randall X. Gauthier,  Psalms 38 and 145 of the Old Greek Version Reviewed by Phil J. Botha

John R. Donahue,  Seek Justice That You May Live: Reflections and Resources on the Bible and Social Justice Reviewed by Walter J. Houston

Stephen L. Cook,  Reading Deuteronomy: A Literary and Theological Commentary Reviewed by Timothy M. Willis

Marvin L. Chaney, Uriah Y. Kim, and Annette Schellenberg, eds.,  Reading a Tendentious Bible: Essays in Honor of Robert B. Coote Reviewed b...

Leif E. Vaage,  Borderline Exegesis Reviewed by Jacqueline M. Hidalgo

Richard C. Steiner,  Disembodied Souls: The Nefesh in Israel and Kindred Spirits in the Ancient Near East, with an Appendix on the Katumuwa ...

Andrea M. Sheaffer,  Envisioning the Book of Judith: How Art Illuminates Minor Characters Reviewed by Dan W. Clanton Jr.

Nili Samet,  The Lamentation over the Destruction of Ur Reviewed by Ralph K. Hawkins

Nicole J. Ruane,  Sacrifice and Gender in Biblical Law Reviewed by William K. Gilders

George L. Parsenios,  First, Second, and Third John Reviewed by Judith M. Lieu

Nathan MacDonald and Izaak J. de Hulster, eds.,  Divine Presence and Absence in Exilic and Post-exilic Judaism: Studies of the Sofja Kovalev...

Marjo C. A. Korpel and Johannes de Moor,  Adam, Eve, and the Devil: A New Beginning Reviewed by Blake A. Jurgens

David Janzen,  The Necessary King: A Postcolonial Reading of the Deuteronomistic Portrait of the Monarchy Reviewed by Juliana Claassens

Seong Whan Timothy Hyun,  Job the Unfinalizable: A Bakhtinian Reading of Job 1–11 Reviewed by Emily Gravett

Avi Hurvitz,  A Concise Lexicon of Late Biblical Hebrew: Linguistic Innovations in the Writings of the Second Temple Period Reviewed by Jer...

William den Hollander,  Josephus, the Emperors, and the City of Rome: From Hostage to Historian Reviewed by Carson M. Bay

Randall Heskett and Joel Butler,  Divine Vintage: Following the Wine Trail from Genesis to the Modern Age Reviewed by Sonya S. Cronin

Athalya Brenner and Archie Chi Chung Lee, eds.,  Leviticus and Numbers Reviewed by Rhiannon Graybill

Kathryn D. Blanchard and Jane S. Webster, eds.,  Lady Parts: Biblical Women and The Vagina Monologues Reviewed by Jennifer L. Koosed

Loren T. Stuckenbruck,  The Myth of Rebellious Angels: Studies in Second Temple Judaism and New Testament Texts Reviewed by Ryan E. Stokes

Brent Strawn, ed.,  The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Law Reviewed by Bernard S. Jackson

Shanell T. Smith,  The Woman Babylon and the Marks of Empire: Reading Revelation with a Postcolonial Womanist Hermeneutics of Ambiveilence ...

Norman C. Habel,  Finding Wisdom in Nature: An Eco-Wisdom Reading of the Book of Job Reviewed by Michael S. Moore

Matthias Ederer,  Aufbrüche zur Exodustheologie Reviewed by Kristin Weingart

Steve Delamarter, Marilyn Heldman, Jeremy R. Brown, and Sara Vulgan,  Ethiopian Scribal Practice 7: Plates for the Catalogue of the Ethiopic...

C. L. Crouch and Jonathan Stökl, eds.,  In the Name of God: The Bible in the Colonial Discourse of Empire Reviewed by Daniel L. Smith-Chris...

Abraham Jacob Berkovitz, Stuart W. Halpern, and Alec Goldstein, eds.,  Lexical Studies in the Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Inscriptions: T...

Cornelis Bennema,  Encountering Jesus: Character Studies in the Gospel of John Reviewed by Jo-Ann A. Brant

Hector Avalos,  Slavery, Abolitionism, and the Ethics of Biblical Scholarship Reviewed by Herbert R. Marbury

Alan Appelbaum,  The Dynasty of the Jewish Patriarchs Reviewed by Joshua Schwartz

József Zsengellér, ed.,  Rewritten Bible after Fifty Years: Texts, Terms, or Techniques? A Last Dialogue with Geza Vermes Reviewed by John ...

Markus Tiwald, ed.,  Kein Jota wird vergehen: Das Gesetzesverständnis der Logienquelle vor dem Hintergrund frühjüdischer Theologie Reviewed...

James M. Robinson,  The Manichaean Codices of Medinet Madi Reviewed by Dylan M. Burns

Michael Patella,  Word and Image: The Hermeneutics of The Saint John’s Bible Reviewed by S. D. Giere

Julie Faith Parker,  Valuable and Vulnerable: Children in the Hebrew Bible, Especially the Elisha Cycle Reviewed by Jason Riley Reviewed b...

Gerbern S. Oegema,  Early Judaism and Modern Culture: Literature and Theology Reviewed by Greg Carey

Giovanni Garbini,  Il Poema di Baal di Ilumilku Reviewed by Paul Sanders

Milton Eng,  The Days of Our Years: A Lexical Semantic Study of the Life Cycle in Biblical Israel Reviewed by Julie Faith Parker

David A. Baer and Robert P. Gordon, eds.,  Leshon Limmudim: Essays on the Language and Literature of the Hebrew Bible in Honour of A. A. Mac...

Anthony Rees,  [Re]Reading Again: A Mosaic Reading of Numbers 25 Reviewed by L. Michael Morales

Ari Mermelstein and Shalom E. Holtz, eds.,  The Divine Courtroom in Comparative Perspective Reviewed by Bruce Chilton

Gary A. Long,  Grammatical Concepts 101 for Biblical Hebrew Reviewed by Hubert James Keener

George H. Guthrie,  2 Corinthians Reviewed by Craig Keener

Brian R. Doak,  Consider Leviathan: Narratives of Nature and the Self in Job Reviewed by Katharine Dell