Review of Biblical Literature Blog

Gary Yamasaki,  Insights from Filmmaking for Analyzing Biblical Narrative Reviewed by Reina-Marie Loader

Gillian Townsley,  The Straight Mind in Corinth: Queer Readings across 1 Corinthians 11:2–16 Reviewed by Joseph A. Marchal

Richard N. Soulen,  Defining Jesus: The Earthly, the Biblical, the Historical, and the Real Jesus, and How Not to Confuse Them Reviewed by ...

Robert S. Snow,  Daniel’s Son of Man in Mark: A Redefinition of the Jerusalem Temple and the Formation of a New Covenant Community Reviewed...

Thomas Bowie Slater, ed.,  Afrocentric Interpretations of Jesus and the Gospel Tradition: Things Black Scholars See That White Scholars Over...

Kandy Queen-Sutherland,  Ruth and Esther Reviewed by Peter H. W. Lau Reviewed by Jeanette Mathews

Richard I. Pervo,  The Acts of John Reviewed by R. Alan Culpepper

Candida R. Moss and Joel S. Baden,  Reconceiving Infertility: Biblical Perspectives on Procreation and Childlessness Reviewed by Beth M. St...

Joseph McDonald,  Exploring Moral Injury in Sacred Texts Reviewed by Joel Stephen Williams

Manoja Kumar Korada,  The Rationale for Aniconism in the Old Testament: A Study of Select Texts Reviewed by Nathan Macdonald

J. R. Daniel Kirk,  A Man Attested by God: The Human Jesus of the Synoptic Gospels Reviewed by Derek Tovey

Eric M. Vanden Eykel,  “But Their Faces Were All Looking Up”: Author and Reader in the Protoevangelium of James Reviewed by Joseph Azize

Rhonda G. Crutcher,  That He Might Be Revealed: Water Imagery and the Identity of Jesus in the Gospel of John Reviewed by Dorothy A. Lee

Susan I. Bubbers,  A Scriptural Theology of Eucharistic Blessings Reviewed by Richard S. Briggs

Andreas Wagner and Jürgen van Oorschot, eds.,  Individualität und Selbstreflexion in den Literaturen des Alten Testaments Reviewed by Gert ...

Marion Ann Taylor and Heather E. Weir, eds.,  Women in the Story of Jesus: The Gospels through the Eyes of Nineteenth-Century Female Biblica...

Mark Sheridan,  Language for God in Patristic Tradition: Wrestling with Biblical Anthropomorphism Reviewed by Kevin Clarke

Maria Pascuzzi,  Paul: Windows on His Thought and His World Reviewed by Jeffrey L. Cockrell

Beniamin Pascut,  Redescribing Jesus’ Divinity through a Social Science Theory: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Forgiveness and Divine Iden...

Ekaterina E. Kozlova,  Maternal Grief in the Hebrew Bible Reviewed by Claudia D. Bergmann

Lester L. Grabbe,  1 and 2 Kings: History and Story in Ancient Israel Reviewed by Benjamin Giffone

Troels Engberg-Pedersen,  John and Philosophy: A New Reading of the Fourth Gospel Reviewed by Gitte Buch-Hansen

Göran Eidevall,  Amos: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary Reviewed by Marvin A. Sweeney

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

Rhonda G. Crutcher,  That He Might Be Revealed: Water Imagery and the Identity of Jesus in the Gospel of John Reviewed by Steven R. Shisley

A. Graeme Auld,  Life in Kings: Reshaping the Royal Story in the Hebrew Bible Reviewed by John W. Herbst

Wilhelm Wrede,  The Authenticity of the Second Letter to the Thessalonians Reviewed by Rob van Houwelingen

Ian D. Wilson,  Kingship and Memory in Ancient Judah Reviewed by Jason Silverman

Saana Svärd,  Women and Power in Neo-Assyrian Palaces Reviewed by Laura Quick

Benjamin E. Reynolds and Loren T. Stuckenbruck, eds.,  The Jewish Apocalyptic Tradition and the Shaping of New Testament Thought Reviewed b...

Kar Yong Lim,  Metaphors and Social Identity Formation in Paul’s Letters to the Corinthians Reviewed by Christopher A. Porter

Mahri Leonard-Fleckman and Alice L. Laffey,  Ruth Reviewed by Terry Giles

James R. Harrison and L. L. Welborn, eds.,  The First Urban Churches 1: Methodological Foundations Reviewed by Michelle Christian

Stephen Finlan,  Sacrifice and Atonement: Psychological Motives and Biblical Patterns Reviewed by Donald Senior

James D. Findlay,  From Prophet to Priest: The Characterization of Aaron in the Pentateuch Reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer

Cavan W. Concannon,  “When You Were Gentiles”: Specters of Ethnicity in Roman Corinth and Paul’s Corinthian Correspondence Reviewed by Love...

Stephen Westerholm and Martin Westerholm,  Reading Sacred Scripture: Voices from the History of Biblical Interpretation Reviewed by Christo...

Donald Dale Walker,  Beyond the Obvious: Doorways to Understanding the New Testament Reviewed by J. Andrew Doole

Kevin J. Vanhoozer and Daniel J. Treier,  Theology and the Mirror of Scripture: A Mere Evangelical Account Reviewed by Joel Stephen William...

Christoph Markschies,  Christian Theology and Its Institutions in the Early Roman Empire: Prolegomena to a History of Early Christian Theolo...

Samuel Byrskog, Tom Holmén, and Matti Kankaanniemi, eds.,  The Identity of Jesus: Nordic Voices Reviewed by Eve-Marie Becker

Gay L. Byron and Vanessa Lovelace, eds.,  Womanist Interpretations of the Bible: Expanding the Discourse Reviewed by Amanda Mbuvi

Ginny Brewer-Boydston,  Good Queen Mothers, Bad Queen Mothers: The Theological Presentation of the Queen Mother in 1 and 2 Kings Reviewed b...

Julia Watts Belser,  Power, Ethics, and Ecology in Jewish Late Antiquity: Rabbinic Responses to Drought and Disaster Reviewed by Joshua Sch...

David J. H. Beldman,  The Completion of Judges: Strategies of Ending in Judges 17–21 Reviewed by Victor H. Matthews

Polymnia Athanassiadi,  Mutations of Hellenism in Late Antiquity Reviewed by Evgenia Moiseeva

Matthew Thiessen,  Paul and the Gentile Problem Reviewed by Nijay Gupta

Katharine E. Southwood,  Marriage by Capture in the Book of Judges: An Anthropological Approach Reviewed by George G. Nicol

Lidija Novakovic,  Resurrection: A Guide for the Perplexed Reviewed by Archie T. Wright

James D. Nogalski,  The Book of the Twelve and Beyond: Collected Essays of James D. Nogalski Reviewed by Soo J. Kim

Thomas J. Kraus and Michael Sommer, eds.,  Book of Seven Seals Reviewed by Darius Müller

Robert Kitchen, trans.; George A. Kiraz, ed.,  The Book of Acts according to the Syriac Peshitta Version with English Translation Reviewed ...

Hermann Gunkel,  Elijah, Yahweh, and Baal Reviewed by Bálint Károly Zabán

Juan Manuel Granados Rojas,  La teología de la reconciliación en las cartas de san Pablo Reviewed by Thomas W. Hudgins

Florence M. Gillman, Mary Ann Beavis, and HyeRan Kim-Craag,  1–2 Thessalonians Reviewed by Jennifer Houston McNeel

John H. Elliott,  Beware the Evil Eye: The Evil Eye in the Bible and the Ancient World: Volume 4: Postbiblical Israel and Early Christianity...

Sarah S. U. Dixon,  The Testimony of the Exalted Jesus in the Book of Revelation Reviewed by Robyn Whitaker

Sebastian P. Brock and George A. Kiraz,  Gorgias Concise Syriac-English, English-Syriac Dictionary Reviewed by Lindsey A. Askin

Thomas Boomershine,  The Messiah of Peace: A Performance-Criticism Commentary on Mark’s Passion-Resurrection Narrative Reviewed by David Se...

Menahem Ben-Yashar and Jordan Penkower,  The Bible in Rabbinic Interpretation: Rabbinic Derashot on Prophets and Writings in Talmudic and Mi...

Peter Claver Ajer,  The Death of Jesus and the Politics of Place in the Gospel of John Reviewed by Gilberto A. Ruiz

Marion Ann Taylor and Christiana de Groot, eds.,  Women of War, Women of Woe: Joshua and Judges through the Eyes of Nineteenth-Century Femal...

Stefan Nordgaard,  Possessions and Family in the Writings of Luke: Questioning the Unity of Luke's Ethics Reviewed by Thomas E. Phillip...

Karl Allen Kuhn,  The Kingdom according to Luke and Acts: A Social, Literary, and Theological Introduction Reviewed by Brian W. Bunnell

Hyun Chul Paul Kim,  Reading Isaiah: A Literary and Theological Commentary Reviewed by Torsten Uhlig

Jione Havea and Peter H. W. Lau, eds.,  Reading Ruth in Asia Reviewed by Woo Min Lee

Robert H. Gundry,  Peter: False Disciple and Apostate according to Saint Matthew Reviewed by Sonya S. Cronin

Courtney Friesen,  Reading Dionysus: Euripides' Bacchae and the Cultural Contestations of Greeks, Jews, Romans, and Christians Reviewed...

Frank Dicken,  Herod as a Composite Character in Luke-Acts Reviewed by Alexander P. Thompson

John J. Collins, T. M. Lemos, Saul M. Olyan, eds.,  Worship, Women and War: Essays in Honor of Susan Niditch Reviewed by Bob Becking

John J. Collins,  The Invention of Judaism: Torah and Jewish Identity from Deuteronomy to Paul Reviewed by Marvin A. Sweeney

Charlene van der Walt,  Toward a Communal Reading of 2 Samuel 13: Ideology and Power within the Intercultural Bible Reading Process Reviewe...

Dennis R. MacDonald,  The Dionysian Gospel: The Fourth Gospel and Euripides Reviewed by Jo-Ann A. Brant

Francis M. Macatangay,  When I Die, Bury Me Well: Death, Burial, Almsgiving, and Restoration in the Book of Tobit Reviewed by Micah D. Kiel

Christos Karakolis, Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr, and Sviatoslav Rogalsky, eds.,  Gospel Images of Jesus Christ in Church Tradition and in Biblical ...