Review of Biblical Literature Blog

Joachim Schaper,  Media and Monotheism: Presence, Representation, and Abstraction in Ancient Judea Reviewed by Dominik Markl

Brent Nongbri,  God’s Library: The Archaeology of the Earliest Christian Manuscripts Reviewed by Juan Hernández

Stephen Mitchell and Philipp Pilhofer, eds.,  Early Christianity in Asia Minor and Cyprus: From the Margins to the Mainstream Reviewed by Ra...

David Marcus,  Hidden Treasure: Doublet Catchwords in the Leningrad Codex Reviewed by Timothy G. Crawford

Michael R. Licona,  Why Are There Differences in the Gospels? What We Can Learn from Ancient Biography Reviewed by Eve-Marie Becker

Jione Havea, ed.,  Sea of Readings: The Bible in the South Pacific Reviewed by Michelle Eastwood

Brian P. Gault,  Body as Landscape, Love as Intoxication: Conceptual Metaphors in the Song of Songs Reviewed by Laura Quick

Matthew Colvin,  The Lost Supper: Revisiting Passover and the Origins of the Eucharist Reviewed by Brant Pitre

Warren Carter,  Mark Reviewed by Barry S. Crawford

Kai Akagi,  Proclaiming the Judge of the Living and the Dead: The Christological Significance of Judgment in Acts 10 and 17 Reviewed by Stev...

Chun Ling Yu,  Bonds and Boundaries among the Early Churches: Community Maintenance in the Letter of James and the Didache Reviewed by Kyle...

Meredith J. C. Warren,  Food and Transformation in Ancient Mediterranean Literature Reviewed by Cynthia Shafer-Elliott

Loren T. Stuckenbruck, Beth Langstaff, and Michael Tilly, eds.,  “Make Disciples of All Nations”: The Appeal and Authority of Christian Fait...

Mark S. Smith,  The Idea of Nicaea in the Early Church Councils, AD 431–451 Reviewed by Young Richard Kim

Patrick Schreiner,  Matthew, Disciple and Scribe: The First Gospel and Its Portrait of Jesus Reviewed by Marc Groenbech-Dam

Hélène Sader,  The History and Archaeology of Phoenicia Reviewed by Helen Dixon

Alan T. Levenson,  Joseph: Portraits through the Ages Reviewed by Corinne E. Blackmer

Allison M. Jack,  The Prodigal Son in English and American Literature: Five Hundred Years of Literary Homecomings Reviewed by Anthony Swind...

Mark S. Gignilliat,  Reading Scripture Canonically: Theological Instincts for Old Testament Interpretation Reviewed by Robert L. Foster

Jaap Doedens,  The Sons of God in Genesis 6:1–4: Analysis and History of Exegesis Reviewed by Michael Hundley

Shawn J. Wilhite,  “One of Life and One of Death”: Apocalypticism and the Didache’s Two Ways Reviewed by Jonathan A. Draper

L. Michael White and G. Anthony Keddie,  Jewish Fictional Letters from Hellenistic Egypt: The Epistle of Aristeas and Related Literature Re...

Philip Michael Lasater,  Facets of Fear: The Fear of God in Exilic and Post-exilic Contexts Reviewed by Lester L. Grabbe

Gili Kugler,  When God Wanted to Destroy the Chosen People: Biblical Traditions and Theology on the Move Reviewed by Jeffery M. Leonard

Young Ho Kim,  Die Parusie bei Lukas: Eine literarisch-exegetische Untersuchung zu den Parusieaussagen im lukanischen Doppelwerk Reviewed b...

David M. Jacobson,  Agrippa II: The Last of the Herods Reviewed by Joshua Schwartz

Jörg Frey; Jacob Cerone, ed.,  Qumran, Early Judaism, and New Testament Interpretation: Kleine Schriften III Reviewed by George J. Brooke

Patrick Faure,  Les Actes des Apôtres: Texte Occidental Reconstituté Reviewed by Jenny Read-Heimerdinger

Richard I. Deibert,  Second Corinthians and Paul’s Gospel of Human Mortality: How Paul’s Experience of Death Authorizes His Apostolic Author...

Filip Čapek and Oded Lipschits, eds.,  The Last Century in the History of Judah: The Seventh Century BCE in Archaeological, Historical, and ...

Tobias Thum and José Declerck, eds.,  Die Schriften des Johannes von Damaskos Reviewed by Johannes Zachhuber

Kumiko Takeuchi,  Death and Divine Judgment in Ecclesiastes Reviewed by Brandon R. Grafius

Hélène Sader,  The History and Archaeology of Phoenicia Reviewed by Wolfgang Zwickel

Annette Yoshiko Reed,  Jewish-Christianity and the History of Judaism: Collected Essays Reviewed by Joshua Schwartz

Shaul Magid, ed.; Jordan Gayle Levy, trans.,  The Bible, the Talmud, and the New Testament: Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik’s Commentary to the Gosp...

Nicholas P. Lunn,  St. Cyril of Alexandria: Glaphyra on the Pentateuch Reviewed by Jonathan Douglas Hicks

Marcel Krusche,  Göttliches und irdisches Königtum in den Psalmen Reviewed by Martin Leuenberger

Haley Goranson Jacob,  Conformed to the Image of His Son: Reconsidering Paul’s Theology of Glory in Romans Reviewed by J. J. Johnson Leese

Benjamin A. Edsall,  The Reception of Paul and Early Christian Initiation: History and Hermeneutics Reviewed by Janelle Peters

James D. Dvorak and Zachary K. Dawson,  The Epistle of James: Linguistic Exegesis of an Early Christian Letter Reviewed by Darian R. Locket...

Alan H. Cadwallader, ed.,  Stones, Bones, and the Sacred: Essays on Material Culture and Ancient Religion in Honor of Dennis E. Smith Revie...

David A. Bosworth,  House of Weeping: The Motif of Tears in Akkadian and Hebrew Prayers Reviewed by Anthony P. SooHoo, SJ

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

Runar M. Thorsteinsson,  Jesus as Philosopher: The Moral Sage in the Synoptic Gospels Reviewed by Janelle Peters

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

Tony L. Moyers,  Reading Responsibly: A Basic Guide to Biblical Interpretation Reviewed by Jacob R. Evers

Robert D. Macina,  The Lord’s Service: A Ritual Analysis of the Order, Function, and Purpose of the Daily Divine Service in the Pentateuch ...

Alexander Kraljic,  Deuteronomium 10,12–11,32: Gottes Hauptgebot, der Gehorsam Israels und sein Land, eine Neuuntersuchung Reviewed by Nath...

Thomas L. Knoebel,  Isidore of Seville: Sententiae Reviewed by Jonathan Douglas Hicks

Andrew R. Davis,  Reconstructing the Temple: The Royal Rhetoric of Temple Renovation in the Ancient Near East and Israel Reviewed by Peter ...

Luke L. Cheung and Andrew B. Spurgeon,  James: A Pastoral and Contextual Commentary Reviewed by Darian R. Lockett

Daniel Boyarin; Tal Hever-Chybowski, ed.,  The Talmud—A Personal Take: Selected Essays Reviewed by Yishai Kiel

Manfred Bietak, Paolo Matthiae, and Silvia Prell, eds.,  Ancient Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Palaces, Volume 2: Proceedings of a Works...

Johannes Arnold,  Der Wahre Logos des Kelsos: Eine Strukturanalyse Reviewed by John Granger Cook

Lindsay C. Watson,  Magic in Ancient Greece and Rome Reviewed by Michael V. Flowers

James P. Ware,  Paul’s Theology in Context: Creation, Incarnation, Covenant, and Kingdom Reviewed by Jonathan More

Jack Shechter,  The Idea of Monotheism: The Evolution of a Foundational Concept Reviewed by James W. Haring

Gregorio del Olmo Lete,  The Private Archives of Ugarit: A Functional Analysis Reviewed by Joseph Lam

Mark D. Nanos,  Reading Paul within Judaism: Collected Essays of Mark D. Nanos, Vol. 1 Reviewed by J. Thomas Hewitt

Joel Marcus,  John the Baptist in History and Theology Reviewed by Rivka Nir

M. David Litwa,  How the Gospels Became History: Jesus and Mediterranean Myths Reviewed by Alan Kirk

Gary N. Knoppers,  Judah and Samaria in Postmonarchic Times: Essays on Their Histories and Literatures Reviewed by Lisbeth S. Fried

Susanne Gillmayr-Bucher and Maria Häusl, eds.,  Prayers and the Construction of Israelite Identity Reviewed by Brian Rainey

Paula Fredriksen and Jesper Svartvik, eds.,  Krister among the Jews and Gentiles: Essays in Appreciation of the Life and Work of Krister Ste...

John F. Evans,  You Shall Know That I Am Yahweh: An Inner-biblical Interpretation of Ezekiel’s Recognition Formula Reviewed by Julie Galamb...

Alan H. Cadwallader,  The Politics of the Revised Version: A Tale of Two New Testament Revision Companies Reviewed by Geoffrey R. Treloar

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

Jonathan R. Trotter,  The Jerusalem Temple in Diaspora Jewish Practice and Thought during the Second Temple Period Reviewed by Benjamin D. ...

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

Bradley K. Storin,  Self-Portrait in Three Colors: Gregory of Nazianzus’s Epistolary Autobiography Reviewed by B. Lee Blackburn Jr.

Paul T. Sloan,  Mark 13 and the Return of the Shepherd: The Narrative Logic of Zechariah in Mark Reviewed by Barry L. Blackburn

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

Michael J. Morris,  Warding Off Evil: Apotropaic Tradition in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Synoptic Gospels Reviewed by Archie T. Wright

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