Gideon R. Kotzé, Wolfgang Kraus, and Michaël N. van der Meer, eds., XVI Congress of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies: Stellenbosch, 2016
Reviewed by Andrew Daniel
Ally Kateusz, Mary and Early Christian Women: Hidden Leadership
Reviewed by Christy Cobb
Jörg Frey, Matthijs den Dulk, and Jan G. van der Watt, eds., 2 Peter and the Apocalypse of Peter: Towards a New Perspective
Reviewed by Travis B. Williams
Amanda W. Benckhuysen, The Gospel according to Eve: A History of Women’s Interpretation
Reviewed by Linda S. Schearing
Israel Bartal, Tangled Roots: The Emergence of Israeli Culture
Reviewed by Shai Ginsburg
Laura M. Zucconi, Ancient Medicine: From Mesopotamia to Rome
Reviewed by Marian Broida
Man Hee Yoon, The Fate of the Man of God from Judah: A Literary and Theological Reading of 1 Kings 13
Reviewed by Paul Jones
David Vopřada, Quodvultdeus: A Bishop Forming Christians in Vandal Africa
Reviewed by Raúl González Salinero
Philip A. Noss and Charles S. Houser, eds., A Guide to Bible Translation: People, Languages, and Topics
Reviewed by Leonard J. Greenspoon
Candida R. Moss, Divine Bodies: Resurrecting Perfection in the New Testament and Early Christianity
Reviewed by H. H. Drake Williams III
Shem Miller, Dead Sea Media: Orality, Textuality, and Memory in the Scrolls from the Judean Desert
Reviewed by Molly M. Zahn
Daniel W. McManigal, A Baptism of Judgment in the Fire of the Holy Spirit: John’s Eschatological Proclamation in Matthew 3
Reviewed by Nathan Shedd
AnneMarie Luijendijk and William E. Klingshirn, eds., My Lots Are in Thy Hands: Sortilege and Its Practitioners in Late Antiquity
Reviewed by Carson Bay
Lily Fetalsana-Apura, A Filipino Resistance Reading of Joshua 1:1–9
Reviewed by Jennifer M. Matheny
John J. Collins, Pieter G. R. de Villiers, and Adela Yarbro Collins, eds., Apocalypticism and Mysticism in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity
Reviewed by Andrew R. Guffey
John J. Collins and Ananda Geyser-Fouché, eds., Scribal Practice, Text, and Canon in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Essays in Memory of Peter W. Flint
Reviewed by Hendrik Bosman
James H. Charlesworth, Jesus as Mirrored in John: The Genius in the New Testament
Reviewed by Daniel Frayer-Griggs
Jan N. Bremmer, The World of Greek Religion and Mythology: Collected Essays II
Reviewed by Mary R. Lefkowitz
Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, Jewish-Christian Dialogues on Scripture in Late Antiquity: Heretic Narratives of the Babylonian Talmud
Reviewed by Adele Reinhartz
Carlos Raúl Sosa Siliezar, Savior of the World: A Theology of the Universal Gospel
Reviewed by Adesola Joan Akala
Seth L. Sanders, From Adapa to Enoch: Scribal Culture and Religious Vision in Judea and Babylon
Reviewed by Lindsey A. Askin
Alex J. Ramos, Torah, Temple, and Transaction: Jewish Religious Institutions and Economic Behavior in Early Roman Galilee
Reviewed by Benjamin D. Gordon
Elliott Rabin, The Biblical Hero: Portraits in Nobility and Fallibility
Reviewed by SuJung Shin
Virginia Miller, A King and a Fool? The Succession Narrative as a Satire
Reviewed by Benjamin J. M. Johnson
Oliver B. Langworthy, Gregory of Nazianzus’ Soteriological Pneumatology
Reviewed by Lee Blackburn
André LaCocque, Work and Creativity: A Philosophical Study from Creation to Postmodernity
Reviewed by Francis Landy
Friedhelm Hartenstein and Thomas Willi, eds., Psalmen und Chronik
Reviewed by Friederike Schücking-Jungblut
Havilah Dharamraj, Ruth: A Pastoral and Contextual Commentary
Reviewed by Jennifer L. Koosed
John J. Collins, What Are Biblical Values? What the Bible Says on Key Ethical Issues
Reviewed by Mark K. George
Andrew J. Byers, Ecclesiology and Theosis in the Gospel of John
Reviewed by Judith M. Lieu
Jenni Williams, The Kingdom of Our God: A Theological Commentary on Isaiah
Reviewed by Andrew T. Abernethy
Miles V. Van Pelt and Gary D. Pratico, The Vocabulary Guide to Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic
Reviewed by George Athas
Stephanie Day Powell, Narrative Desire and the Book of Ruth
Reviewed by Marjo C. A. Korpel
Matthew H. Patton and Frederic Clarke Putnam; Miles V. Van Pelt, ed., Basics of Hebrew Discourse: A Guide to Working with Hebrew Prose and Poetry
Reviewed by David J. Fuller
Saul M. Olyan and Jacob L. Wright, eds., Supplementation and the Study of the Hebrew Bible
Reviewed by Roy E. Garton
Ralph P. Martin and Carl N. Toney, New Testament Foundations: An Introduction for Students
Reviewed by Nijay K. Gupta
Christoph Markschies, God’s Body: Jewish, Christian, and Pagan Images of God
Reviewed by Joshua Schwartz
Brice C. Jones, New Testament Texts on Greek Amulets from Late Antiquity
Reviewed by Juan Hernández
James R. Harrison and L. L. Welborn, eds., The First Urban Churches 3: Ephesus
Reviewed by Eric C. Moore
Cristiano D’Angelo, Davide e Mical: Studio sulla redazione e la teologia di 1–2 Samuele
Reviewed by Andrea Ravasco
Patricia Cox Miller, In the Eye of the Animal: Zoological Imagination in Ancient Christianity
Reviewed by Jennifer L. Koosed
Filip Čapek and Oded Lipschits, eds., The Last Century in the History of Judah
Reviewed by Lester L. Grabbe
Anthony Augoustakis, Emma Buckley, and Claire Stocks, eds., Fides in Flavian Literature
Reviewed by Teresa Morgan
Johanna W. H. van Wijk-Bos, The End of the Beginning: Joshua and Judges
Reviewed by Gregory Mobley
Jonathan E. Soyars, The Shepherd of Hermas and the Pauline Legacy
Reviewed by H. H. Drake Williams III
Martti Nissinen, Prophets and Prophecy in the Ancient Near East
Reviewed by Jonathan Stökl
Daniel Marguerat, Les Actes des Apôtres (13–28)
Reviewed by Abson Joseph
Anthony Keddie, Class and Power in Roman Palestine: The Socioeconomic Setting of Judaism and Christian Origins
Reviewed by Benjamin D. Gordon
Jutta Jokiranta and Molly Zahn, eds., Law, Literature, and Society in Legal Texts from Qumran: Papers from the Ninth Meeting of the International Organization for Qumran Studies, Leuven 2016
Reviewed by Carol Newsom
Febbie C. Dickerson, Luke, Widows, Judges, and Stereotypes
Reviewed by Abraham Smith
Claire Clivaz, Ecritures Digitales: Digital Writing, Digital Scriptures
Reviewed by Clark Bates
Elizabeth A. Clark, The Fathers Refounded: Protestant Liberalism, Roman Catholic Modernism, and the Teaching of Ancient Christianity in Early Twentieth-Century America
Reviewed by Jeffrey L. Morrow
Nicole L. Tilford, ed., Women and the Society of Biblical Literature
Reviewed by Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch
Michael Sommer, Erik Eynikel, Veronika Niederhofer, and Elisabeth Hernitscheck, eds., Mosebilder: Gedanken zur Rezeption einer literarischen Figur im Frühjudentum, frühen Christentum und der römisch-hellenistischen Literatur
Reviewed by Florian Oepping
Marinella Perroni and Cristina Simonelli, Mary of Magdala: Revisiting the Sources
Reviewed by Jennifer V. Pietz
Bernhard Oestreich, Performance Criticism of the Pauline Letters
Reviewed by Rafael Rodríguez
William D. Mounce, Basics of Biblical Greek: Grammar
Reviewed by Michel Pauw
David Z. Moster, Etrog: How a Chinese Fruit Became a Jewish Symbol
Reviewed by Barry Dov Walfish
Michael S. Moore, What Is This Babbler Trying to Say? Essays on Biblical Interpretation
Reviewed by Scott Bayer
Richard S. Hess, The Old Testament: A Historical, Theological, and Critical Introduction
Reviewed by Donald C. Polaski
Ellen F. Davis, Opening Israel’s Scriptures
Reviewed by Heath D. Dewrell
Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony, The Ladder of Prayer and the Ship of Stirrings: The Praying Self in Late Antique East Syrian Christianity
Reviewed by David Kiger
Yael Almog, Secularism and Hermeneutics
Reviewed by David J. Fuller