Review of Biblical Literature Blog

Andrew J. Summerson,  Divine Scripture and Human Emotion in Maximus the Confessor: Exegesis of the Human Heart Jonathan Bieler

Grace J. Park,  Focus Construction with kî ʾim in Biblical Hebrew Laura Hare

Teresa Lee McCaskill, Gifts and Ritual:  The Charismata of Romans 12:6–8 in the Context of Roman Religion Zeba Crook

Jon D. Levenson,  Israel’s Day of Light and Joy: The Origin, Development, and Enduring Meaning of the Jewish Sabbath Ottilia Lukács

Yael Landman,  Legal Writing, Legal Practice: The Biblical Bailment Law and Divine Justice Andrew D. Gross

Christy Cobb and Katherine A. Shaner, eds.,  Ancient Slavery and Its New Testament Contexts Shayna Sheinfeld

Richard J. Britton,  Romans and the Power of the Believer K. Edwin Bryant

Jonathan Ben-Dov and Felipe Rojas, eds.,  Afterlives of Ancient Rock-Cut Monuments in the Near East: Carvings in and out of Time Joshua Schw...

Jörg Rüpke and Greg Woolf, eds.,  Religion in the Roman Empire Jeffrey Brodd 

Roy R. Jeal,  Exploring Colossians: Living the New Reality Rosemary Canavan

Evangelia G. Dafni, ed.,  Law and Justice in Jerusalem, Babylon and Hellas Frank Ueberschaer

M. I. Cha,  Misunderstanding Galatians: An Exegetical, Originalist Commentary William Horst

Mona P. Bias,  Job: A Pastoral and Contextual Commentary Chloe T. Sun

Angelika Berlejung, ed.,  Encyclopedia of Material Culture in the Biblical World: A New Biblisches Reallexikon Joshua Schwartz

Adam H. Becker,  Isaac of Antioch: Homilies on Moral and Monastic Reform Yifat Monnickendam

James W. Barker,  Writing and Rewriting the Gospels: John and the Synoptics Richard Francis D’Souza, SSL, SSD

Ariel Zinder,  Arise and Sing: Readings in Medieval Hebrew Penitential Poetry from Iraq and al-Andalus  [Hebrew] Oren Yirmiya

Jeremiah L. Stallman,  Judge Jesus: Approaching Jesus’s Messianic Judgeship in the Gospel of John from an Early Jewish Perspective Samantha ...

Ruth Christa Mathieson,  Matthew’s Parable of the Royal Wedding Feast: A Sociorhetorical Interpretation Daniel Frayer-Griggs

Oded Lipschits, Liora Freud, Manfred Oeming, and Yuval Gadot,  Ramat Raḥel VI: Renewed Excavations by the Tel Aviv–Heidelberg Expedition (20...

Bungishabaku Katho,  Reading Jeremiah in Africa: Biblical Essays in Sociopolitical Imagination Ron Lindo Jr.

Paul S. Evans,  Sennacherib and the War of 1812: Disputed Victory in the Assyrian Campaign of 701 BCE in Light of Military History Shawn Zel...

Ruth A. Clements, Russell Fuller, Armin Lange, and Paul D. Mandel, eds.,  The Textual History of the Bible from the Dead Sea Scrolls to the ...

František Ábel, ed.,  Receptions of Paul during the First Two Centuries: Exploration of the Jewish Matrix of Early Christianity Ryan D. Coll...

Joseph Yahalom,  Yehudah Halevi: The Secular Poems; The Original Diwan with Supplements  [Hebrew] Federico Dal Bo

Enoch O. Okode,  Christ the Gift and the Giver: Paul’s Portrait of Jesus as the Supreme Royal Benefactor in Romans 5:1–11 Grace Wing-yi AU

Yii-Jan Lin,  Immigration and Apocalypse: How the Book of Revelation Shaped American Immigration Lynn R. Huber

Murray J. Harris,  Paul—His Life, Letters, and Teaching: Convenient Summaries Carl N. Toney

Pieter B. Hartog, Shulamit Laderman, Vered Tohar, and Archibald L. H. M. van Wieringen, eds.,  Jerusalem and Other Holy Places as Foci of Mu...

Nijay K. Gupta and John K. Goodrich, eds.,  Sin and Its Remedy in Paul Stuart B. Langley

Shaye J. D. Cohen, Robert Goldenberg, and Hayim Lapin, eds.,  The Oxford Annotated Mishnah Joshua Schwartz

Andrew T. Abernethy,  Discovering Isaiah: Content, Interpretation, Reception Shawn Zelig Aster

Sydney Tooth,  Suddenness and Signs: The Eschatologies of 1 and 2 Thessalonians Janusz Kucicki

Benjamin Kantor,  The Pronunciation of New Testament Greek: Judeo-Palestinian Greek Phonology and Orthography from Alexander to Islam Jenny ...

Roy R. Jeal,  Exploring Colossians: Living the New Reality Timothy Milinovich

Matthew E. Gordley,  Social Justice in the Stories of Jesus: The Ethical Challenge of the Parables Warren Carter

Aron Freidenreich,  Mutual Influence in Priestly and Non-Priestly Pentateuchal Narratives: A Study of the Dynamic Interaction Behind the Tex...

Kathleen J. Birney,  Ashkelon 9: The Hellenistic Period Joshua Schwartz

Angelika Berlejung and Gideon Bohak, eds.,  Amulets of Protection and Texts for Fears in Antiquity Ariel Feldman

Craig G. Bartholomew,  Listening to Scripture: An Introduction to Interpreting the Bible Zach Eberhart

Benjamin D. Suchard,  Aramaic Daniel: A Textual Reconstruction of Chapters 1–7 Peter Joshua Atkins

Susanne Scholz, ed.,  Doing Biblical Masculinity Studies as Feminist Biblical Studies? Critical Interrogations Alexiana Fry

Albert Sui Hung Lee,  Dialogue on Monarchy in the Gideon-Abimelech Narrative: Ideological Reading in Light of Bakhtin’s Dialogism Keith Bodn...

Reinhard G. Kratz and Bernd U. Schipper, eds.,  Elephantine in Context: Studies on the History, Religion and Literature of the Judeans in Pe...

David W. Kling,  The Bible in History: How the Texts Have Shaped the Times An-Ting Yi

Martin Goodman,  Herod the Great: Jewish King in a Roman World Jodi Magness

Steven Fassberg, ed.,  Hebrew Texts and Language of the Second Temple Period: Proceedings of an Eighth Symposium on the Hebrew of the Dead S...

Brendan Byrne,  Paul and the Economy of Salvation: Reading from the Perspective of the Last Judgment Grant Buchanan

Ruben Zimmermann; Dieter T. Roth, ed.,  Breaking New Ground in John: Imagery, Parables, Characters, Christology, and Ethics in the Fourth Go...

Daniel R. Schwartz,  1 Maccabees: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary Joshua Schwartz

Sarah E. Rollens, Eric M. Vanden Eykel, and Meredith J. C. Warren, eds.,  Judeophobia and the New Testament: Texts and Contexts Paula Fredri...

Joel Korytko,  Death of the Covenant Code: Capital Punishment in Old Greek Exodus in Light of Greco-Egyptian Law Anna Angelini

Jennifer Brown Jones,  Psalms 89–105: A Handbook on the Greek Text Elizabeth H. P. Backfish

Bart Ehrman, Michael F. Bird, and Robert B. Stewart,  When Did Jesus Become God? A Christological Debate Andrew Loke

Reinhard von Bendemann,  Christus der Arzt: Frühchristliche Soteriologie und Anthropologie im Licht antik-medizinischer Konzepte Karl Olav S...

Elie Assis,  Before There Were Kings: A Literary Analysis of the Book of Judges Joel S. Kaminsky

Erik Waaler,  The Use of the Old Testament in Matthew 1–4 Akio Ito

Jonathan Stutz,  Stasis: Crowd Violence and Religious-Political Discourses in Late Antiquity Christian R. Raschle

James B. Prothro,  A Pauline Theology of Justification: Forgiveness, Friendship, and Life in Christ Garwood P. Anderson

Zhenya Gurina-Rodriguez,  Begging for Their Daily Bread: Beggar-Centric Interpretations of Matthew 6 Mphumezi Hombana

Craig A. Evans and Adam Z. Wright, eds.,  Gods, Spirits, and Worship in the Greco-Roman World and Early Christianity Margaret Froelich

Lynn H. Cohick,  The Letter to the Ephesians Lisa Marie Belz

Beatrice Bonanno,  The Septuagint of Ruth: Translation Technique, Textual History, and Theological Issues William A. Ross

Arjen F. Bakker, René Bloch, Yael Fisch, Paula Fredriksen, and Hindy Najman, eds.,  Protestant Bible Scholarship: Antisemitism, Philosemitis...

Jarvis J. Williams,  Christ Redeemed “Us” from the Curse of the Law: A Jewish Martyrological Reading of Galatians 3.13 Seon Yong Kim

Andreas Wagner and Jürgen van Oorschot, eds.,  Der bestmögliche Mensch: Alttestamentliche und systematisch-theologische Anmerkungen zu Sünde...

Marcus Sigismund and Siegfried Kreuzer, eds.,  Die Schriftzitate im Hebräerbrief als Zeugen für die Überlieferung der Septuaginta Piotr Hero...

Beth Langstaff, Loren T. Stuckenbruck, and Michael Tilly, eds.,  The Lord’s Prayer Michael F. Wandusim

Jens Herzer; Jan Quenstedt, ed.,  Die Pastoralbriefe und das Vermächtnis des Paulus: Studien zu den Briefen an Timotheus und Titus Tobias Hä...

Benjamin D. Gordon,  Land and Temple: Field Sacralization and the Agrarian Priesthood of Second Temple Judaism Jordan Guy

Michael Fishbane,  Jewish Biblical Interpretation: Medieval and Modern; Collected Essays II Laura S. Lieber

Richard Bauckham,  The Blurred Cross: A Writer’s Difficult Journey with God Isaiah Allen

Kris Song,  One Spirit: Pneumatology and Unity in the Corinthian Letters William Horst

Jonathan M. Potter,  Rewritten Gospel: The Composition of Luke and Rewritten Scripture Gregory S. Thellman

Benjamin J. Petroelje,  The Pauline Book and the Dilemma of Ephesians Justin Winzenburg