Review of Biblical Literature Blog

2008.12.17

Ben Witherington III, The Letters to Philemon, the Colossians, and the Ephesians: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary on the Captivity Epistles
Reviewed by Timothy Gombis

2008.12.16

Sigve K. Tonstad, Saving God’s Reputation: The Theological Function of Pistis Iesou in the Cosmic Narratives of Revelation
Reviewed by Tobias Nicklas

2008.12.15

J. Samuel Subramanian, The Synoptic Gospels and the Psalms as Prophecy
Reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus
Reviewed by Edward J. Mills III

2008.12.09

Ilana Pardes, Melville’s Bibles
Reviewed by Mark Elliott

2008.12.08

Mary E. Mills, Alterity, Pain, and Suffering in Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel
Reviewed by Hallvard Hagelia

2008.12.07

Nikolaos Lazaridis, Wisdom in Loose Form: The Language of Egyptian and Greek Proverbs in Collections of the Hellenistic and Roman Periods
Reviewed by John S. Kloppenborg

2008.12.06

Hans-Josef Klauck, Ancient Letters and the New Testament: A Guide to Context and Exegesis
Reviewed by Matthew D. Montonini

2008.12.05

Christiana de Groot and Marion Ann Taylor, eds., Recovering Nineteenth-Century Women Interpreters of the Bible
Reviewed by Caryn A. Reeder

2008.12.04

Robert P. Gordon, The God of Israel
Reviewed by Ben C. Ollenburger

2008.12.03

Paul Foster, ed., The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers
Reviewed by Taras Khomych

2008.12.02

Lutz Edzard and Jan Retsö, eds., Current Issues in the Analysis of Semitic Grammar and Lexicon I: Oslo-Göteborg Cooperation 3rd–5th June 2004; II: Oslo-Göteborg Cooperation 4th–5th November 2005
Reviewed by Frederick E. Greenspahn

2008.12.01

Ignacio Carbajosa and Luis Sánchez Navarro, eds., Entrar en lo antiguo: Acerca de la relación entre Antiguo y Nuevo Testamento
Reviewed by David Creech

2008.11.48

Géza G. Xeravits and József Zsengellér, eds., The Book of Maccabees: History, Theology, Ideology (Papers of the Second International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books, Pápa, Hungary, 9–11 June, 2005)
Reviewed by Pierre Keith

2008.11.47

Jan G. van der Watt, ed., Identity, Ethics, and Ethos in the New Testament
Reviewed by H. H. Drake Williams III

2008.11.46

Matthew B. Schwartz and Kalman J. Kaplan, The Fruit of Her Hands: A Psychology of Biblical Woman
Reviewed by Corinne Blackmer

2008.11.45

David R. Nienhuis, Not by Paul Alone: The Formation of the Catholic Epistle Collection and the Christian Canon
Reviewed by Patrick J. Hartin

2008.11.44

Adriane B. Leveen, Memory and Tradition in the Book of Numbers
Reviewed by James W. Watts

2008.11.43

Paul Joyce, Ezekiel: A Commentary
Reviewed by Corrine Carvalho
Reviewed by Steven S. Tuell

2008.11.42

Richard A. Horsley, Scribes, Visionaries, and the Politics of Second Temple Judea
Reviewed by Lester L. Grabbe

2008.11.41

Deborah L. Ellens, Women in the Sex Texts of Leviticus and Deuteronomy: A Comparative Conceptual Analysis
Reviewed by Naomi Steinberg

2008.11.40

Nicola Denzey, The Bone Gatherers: The Lost Worlds of Early Christian Women
Reviewed by Paul Dilley

2008.11.39

Stephen K. Catto, Reconstructing the First-Century Synagogue: A Critical Analysis of Current Research
Reviewed by Birger Olsson
Reviewed by Jonathan Bernier

2008.11.38

Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch, Studying the Old Testament: A Companion
Reviewed by Steed Vernyl Davidson

2008.11.37

Susan Brayford, Genesis
Reviewed by Jan Joosten

2008.11.36

Roland Boer, ed., Bakhtin and Genre Theory in Biblical Studies
Reviewed by Timothy J. Sandoval

2008.11.35

Jason Beduhn and Paul Mirecki, eds., Frontiers of Faith: The Christian Encounter with Manichaeism in the Acts of Archelaus
Reviewed by Tobias Nicklas

2008.11.34

Bob Becking, From David to Gedaliah: The Book of Kings as Story and History
Reviewed by Marvin A. Sweeney

2008.11.33

Hector Avalos, Fighting Words: The Origins of Religious Violence
Reviewed by J. Harold Ellens

2008.11.32

Jürgen Zangenberg, Harold W. Attridge, and Dale B. Martin, eds., Religion, Ethnicity and Identity in Ancient Galilee: A Region in Transition
Reviewed by Christoph Stenschke

2008.11.31

Ben Zion Wacholder, The New Damascus Document: The Midrash on the Eschatological Torah of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Reconstruction, Translation and Commentary
Reviewed by Gregory L. Doudna

2008.11.30

Emily Teeter and Douglas J. Brewer, Egypt and the Egyptians
Reviewed by Roxana Flammini

2008.11.29

Fred Strickert, Rachel Weeping: Jews, Christians, and Muslims at the Fortress Tomb
Reviewed by Samuel Thomas

2008.11.28

Daniel A. Smith, The Post-Mortem Vindication of Jesus in the Sayings Gospel Q
Reviewed by William Arnal

2008.11.27

Jens Kreinath, Jan Snoek, and Michael Stausberg
Theorizing Rituals: Issues, Topics, Approaches, Concepts, Annotated Bibliography
Reviewed by Brian B. Schmidt

2008.11.26

Brad E. Kelle and Megan Bishop Moore
Israel’s Prophets and Israel’s Past: Essays on the Relationship of Prophetic Texts and Israelite History in Honor of John H. Hayes
Reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer

2008.11.25

Katherine J. Dell, Opening the Old Testament
Reviewed by Bill T. Arnold
Reviewed by George Heider

2008.11.24

Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan, The Last Week: A Day-by-Day Account of Jesus’s Final Week in Jerusalem
Reviewed by Craig L. Blomberg

2008.11.23

Ward Blanton, Displacing Christian Origins: Philosophy, Secularity, and the New Testament
Reviewed by Clare K. Rothschild

2008.11.22

Hector Avalos, The End of Biblical Studies
Reviewed by Ulrich H. J. Körtner

2008.11.21

Gary Yamasaki, Watching a Biblical Narrative: Point of View in Biblical Exegesis
Reviewed by David R. Bauer
Reviewed by Helmut Utzschneider

2008.11.20

Claus Wilcke, ed., Das geistige Erfassen der Welt im Alten Orient: Sprache, Religion, Kultur und Gesellschaft
Reviewed by David Weisberg

2008.11.19

John S. Vassar, Recalling a Story Once Told: An Intertextual Reading of the Psalter and the Pentateuch
Reviewed by Philippus J. Botha

2008.11.18

Marvin A. Sweeney, I and II Kings: A Commentary
Reviewed by Ernst Axel Knauf

2008.11.17

David E. S. Stein, ed., The Contemporary Torah: A Gender-Sensitive Adaptation of the JPS Translation
Reviewed by Linda S. Schearing

2008.11.16

Klyne R. Snodgrass, Stories with Intent: A Comprehensive Guide to the Parables of Jesus
Reviewed by Ernest van Eck

2008.11.15

Alexander Samely, Forms of Rabbinic Literature and Thought: An Introduction
Reviewed by Joshua Schwartz

2008.11.14

Ela Nutu, Incarnate Word, Inscribed Flesh: John’s Prologue and the Postmodern
Reviewed by Larry D. George

2008.11.13

Sarianna Metso, The Serekh Texts
Reviewed by Ian Werrett

2008.11.12

Frank J. Matera, New Testament Theology: Exploring Diversity and Unity
Reviewed by Udo Schnelle

2008.11.11

Grant Macaskill, Revealed Wisdom and Inaugurated Eschatology in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity
Reviewed by Brian Han Gregg

2008.11.10

Theo A. W. van der Louw, Transformations in the Septuagint: Towards an Interaction of Septuagint Studies and Translation Studies
Reviewed by Francis Dalrymple-Hamilton

2008.11.09

Andrew T. Lincoln and Angus Paddison, eds., Christology and Scripture: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Reviewed by Mark Elliott

2008.11.08

Thomas L. Leclerc, Introduction to the Prophets: Their Stories, Sayings, and Scrolls
Reviewed by Bo H. Lim

2008.11.07

H. Klinkott, S. Kubisch, and R. Müller-Wollermann, eds., Geschenke und Steuern, Zölle und Tribute: Antike Abgabenformen in Anspruch und Wirklichkeit
Reviewed by Mark W. Hamilton

2008.11.06

Alec Gilmore, A Concise Dictionary of Bible Origins and Interpretation
Reviewed by Jan G. van der Watt

2008.11.05

Robert R. Ellis, Learning to Read Biblical Hebrew: An Introductory Grammar
Reviewed by Max Rogland

2008.11.04

Donald Capps, Jesus the Village Psychiatrist
Reviewed by Pieter F. Craffert

2008.11.03

David A. Brondos, Fortress Introduction to Salvation and the Cross
Reviewed by Ron Clark

2008.11.02

Paul Barnett, Paul: Missionary of Jesus
Reviewed by Don Garlington

2008.11.01

Kevin L. Anderson, ‘But God Raised Him from the Dead’: The Theology of Jesus’ Resurrection in Luke-Acts
Reviewed by Ron Clark

RBL Newsletter, 13 October 2008

The following new reviews have been added to the Review of Biblical Literature.

Edward Adams, The Stars Will Fall from Heaven: Cosmic Catastrophe in the New Testament and Its World
Reviewed by Lorenzo DiTommaso

William Sanger Campbell, The “We” Passages in the Acts of the Apostles: The Narrator as Narrative Character
Reviewed by Jean-François Racine

Andrew D. Clarke, A Pauline Theology of Church Leadership
Reviewed by Stephan Joubert

Benjamin Fiore, The Pastoral Epistles: First Timothy, Second Timothy, and Titus
Reviewed by Korinna Zamfir

Bas ter Haar Romeny, ed., The Peshitta: Its Use in Literature and Liturgy: Papers Read at the Third Peshitta Symposium
Reviewed by Robert A. Kitchen

Daniel Hillel, The Natural History of the Bible: An Environmental Exploration of the Hebrew Scriptures
Reviewed by Norman Habel

Werner G. Jeanrond and Andrew D. H. Mayes, eds., Recognising the Margins: Developments in Biblical and Theological Studies
Reviewed by Peter R. Rodgers

Matthew Levering, Ezra and Nehemiah
Reviewed by Ralph W. Klein

Graham S. Ogden, Qoheleth
Reviewed by Ludger Schwienhorst-Schönberger

R. J. R. Plant, Good Figs, Bad Figs: Judicial Differentiation in the Book of Jeremiah
Reviewed by Mark Brummitt

Fernando F. Segovia and R. S. Sugirtharajah, eds., A Postcolonial Commentary on the New Testament Writings
Reviewed by Jonathan A. Draper
Reviewed by Hans Leander

Robert B. Stewart, ed., Intelligent Design: William A. Dembski and Michael Ruse in Dialogue
Reviewed by Christopher Heard

Ilse Wegner, Eine Einführung in die hurritische Sprache
Reviewed by Ignacio Marquez Rowe

Stephen Westerholm, Understanding Matthew: The Early Christian Worldview of the First Gospel
Reviewed by David C. Sim

RBL Newsletter, 3 October 2008

The following new reviews have been added to the Review of Biblical Literature.

Andrew Bernhard, Other Early Christian Gospels: A Critical Edition of the Surviving Greek Manuscripts
Reviewed by Christopher Tuckett

Augusto Cosentino, Il battesimo gnostico: Dottrine, simboli e riti iniziatici nello gnosticismo
Reviewed by Birger A. Pearson

Katharine J. Dell, The Book of Proverbs in Social and Theological Context
Reviewed by Dorothy Akoto

Karin Finsterbusch, Armin Lange, and K.F. Diethard Römheld, eds., Human Sacrifice in Jewish and Christian Tradition
Reviewed by James W. Watts

Joel B. Green, 1 Peter
Reviewed by Paul J. Achtemeier

John Paul Hozvicka, A Primer on Biblical Studies
Reviewed by John Vassar

Steven L. McKenzie and John Kaltner, The Old Testament: Its Background, Growth, and Content
Reviewed by Francis Dalrymple-Hamilton

Daniel Patte, ed., Global Bible Commentary
Reviewed by Alexander Negrov

Finny Philip, The Origins of Pauline Pneumatology: The Eschatological Bestowal of the Spirit upon Gentiles in Judaism and in the Early Development of Paul’s Theology
Reviewed by Justin K. Hardin

Aicha Rahmouni; J. N. Ford, trans., Divine Epithets in the Ugaritic Alphabetic Texts
Reviewed by James R. Getz Jr.

Varda Sussman, Oil-Lamps in the Holy Land: Saucer Lamps: From the Beginning to the Hellenistic Period: Collections of the Israel Antiquities Authority
Reviewed by Noam Adler

Ben Witherington III, Matthew
Reviewed by David C. Sim

RBL Newsletter, 26 September 2008

The following new reviews have been added to the Review of Biblical Literature.

Craig D. Allert, A High View of Scripture? The Authority of the Bible and the Formation of the New Testament Canon
Reviewed by Garwood P. Anderson

Philip R. Amidon, Philostorgius: Church History
Reviewed by Alanna M. Nobbs

Stephen Bertman, Handbook to Life in Ancient Mesopotamia
Reviewed by Aren M. Maeir

Sebastian P. Brock, The Wisdom of St. Isaac of Nineveh
Reviewed by Lucas Van Rompay

Michael J. Gorman, Reading Paul
Reviewed by Stephen Finlan

Joseph H. Hellerman, Jesus and the People of God: Reconfiguring Ethnic Identity
Reviewed by Vernon Robbins

Christophe Nihan, From Priestly Torah to Pentateuch: A Study in the Composition of the Book of Leviticus
Reviewed by Jeffrey Stackert

Barbara E. Reid, Taking up the Cross: New Testament Interpretations through Latina and Feminist Eyes
Reviewed by Mary J. Marshall

Bernard Renaud, «Proche est ton Nom»: De la révélation à l'invocation du Nom de Dieu
Reviewed by Jean-Paul Michaud

Joseph B. Soloveitchik; David Shatz, Joel B. Wolowelsky, and Reuven Ziegler, eds., Abraham’s Journey: Reflections on the Life of the Founding Patriarch
Reviewed by Dan W. Clanton Jr.

RBL Newsletter, 13 September 2008

The following new reviews have been added to the Review of Biblical Literature.

Frederick E. Brenk, With Unperfumed Voice: Studies in Plutarch, in Greek Literature, Religion and Philosophy, and in the New Testament Background
Reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus

James H. Charlesworth, ed., The Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls: The Second Princeton Symposium on Judaism and Christian Origins
Reviewed by Matthew Goff

Zeba A. Crook and Philip A. Harland, eds., Identity and Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean: Jews, Christians and Others: Essays in Honour of Stephen G. Wilson
Reviewed by Thomas W. Gillespie

Rodney J. Decker, Koine Greek Reader: Selections from the New Testament, Septuagint, and Early Christian Writers
Reviewed by Pierre Johan Jordaan

Simcha Fishbane, Deviancy in Early Rabbinic Literature: A Collection of Socio-Anthropological Essays
Reviewed by Mayer I. Gruber

Mark W. Hamilton, Thomas H. Olbricht, and Jeffrey Peterson, eds., Renewing Tradition: Studies in Texts and Contexts in Honor of James W. Thompson
Reviewed by Nathan Guy

Renate Jost, Gender, Sexualität und Macht in der Anthropologie des Richterbuches
Reviewed by Trent Butler

Matthew Kraus, How Should Rabbinic Literature Be Read in the Modern World?
Reviewed by Joshua Schwartz

Larry J. Kreitzer, Hierapolis in the Heavens: Studies in the Letter to the Ephesians
Reviewed by Daniel Darko
Reviewed by Stephan Witetschek

Xabier Pikaza, Diccionario de la Biblia: Historia y Palabra
Reviewed by Daniel Bonilla-Rios

Roger Ryan, Judges
Reviewed by Victor H. Matthews

Daniel L. Smith-Christopher, Jonah, Jesus, and Other Good Coyotes: Speaking Peace to Power in the Bible
Reviewed by Hector Avalos

Nili Wazana, All the Boundaries of the Land: The Promised Land in Biblical Thought in Light of the Ancient Near East [Hebrew]
Reviewed by Shalom E. Holtz

B. F. Westcott and F. J. A. Hort, The Greek New Testament with Dictionary
Reviewed by Allan J. McNicol

RBL Newsletter, 5 September 2008

The following new reviews have been added to the Review of Biblical Literature.

Stephen C. Barton, ed., Idolatry: False Worship in the Bible, Early Judaism and Christianity
Reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus

Jon L. Berquist, ed., Approaching Yehud: New Approaches to the Study of the Persian Period
Reviewed by Ernst Axel Knauf

Kent E. Brower and Andy Johnson, eds., Holiness and Ecclesiology in the New Testament
Reviewed by James M. Howard

David B. Capes, Rodney Reeves, and E. Randolph Richards, Rediscovering Paul: An Introduction to His World, Letters, and Theology
Reviewed by Rodrigo J. Morales

Paul M. Fullmer, Resurrection in Mark’s Literary-Historical Perspective
Reviewed by Pheme Perkins

John Alan Halloran, ed., Sumerian Lexicon: A Dictionary Guide to the Ancient Sumerian Language
Reviewed by John Engle

Edith M. Humphrey, ed., And I Turned to See the Voice: The Rhetoric of Vision in the New Testament
Reviewed by Bart J. Koet

David J. Lull, 1 Corinthians
Reviewed by Anthony C. Thiselton

Steve Moyise and Maarten J. J. Menken, eds., Deuteronomy in the New Testament: The New Testament and the Scriptures of Israel
Reviewed by Michael A. Lyons
Reviewed by David Lincicum

Stanley E. Porter, ed., Paul and His Opponents
Reviewed by Justin K. Hardin

Dagmar Pruin, Geschichten und Geschichte: Isebel als literarische und historische Gestalt
Reviewed by Claudia D. Bergmann

Magnus Riska, The House of the Lord: A Study of the Temple Scroll Columns 29:3b–47:18
Reviewed by George J. Brooke

Norman Solomon, Richard Harries, and Tim Winter, eds., Abraham’s Children: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Conversation
Reviewed by Joel N. Lohr

K. Lawson Younger Jr., ed., Ugarit at Seventy-Five
Reviewed by Aren M. Maeir

RBL Newsletter, 27 August 2008

The following new reviews have been added to the Review of Biblical Literature.

Michael F. Bird, The Saving Righteousness of God: Studies on Paul, Justification and the New Perspective
Reviewed by Martin Meiser

William P. Brown, ed., Engaging Biblical Authority: Perspectives on the Bible as Scripture
Reviewed by Craig L. Blomberg

Reta Halteman Finger, Of Widows and Meals: Communal Meals in the Book of Acts
Reviewed by Steve Walton

Ronald E. Heine, Reading the Old Testament with the Ancient Church: Exploring the Formation of Early Christian Thought
Reviewed by Martin C. Albl

Alastair Hunter, Wisdom Literature
Reviewed by Jurie le Roux

Joel S. Kaminsky, Yet I Loved Jacob: Reclaiming the Biblical Concept of Election
Reviewed by B. J. Oropeza

James A. Metzger, Consumption and Wealth in Luke’s Travel Narrative
Reviewed by Kenneth Litwak

Mareike Rake, “Juda wird aufsteigen!”: Untersuchungen zum ersten Kapitel des Richterbuches
Reviewed by Klaas Spronk

Ruth Anne Reese, 2 Peter and Jude
Reviewed by Wilhelm Pratscher

David M. Scholer, ed., Social Distinctives of the Christians in the First Century: Pivotal Essays by E. A. Judge
Reviewed by Tsalampouni Ekaterini

Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok: Psykologi och Exegetik
Reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer

RBL Newsletter, 15 August 2008

The following new reviews have been added to the Review of Biblical Literature.

Paul J. Achtemeier, Jesus and the Miracle Tradition
Reviewed by Michael Labahn

Roland Boer, ed., Bakhtin and Genre Theory in Biblical Studies
Reviewed by David W. Williams

Maria Brutti, The Development of the High Priesthood during the Pre-Hasmonean Period: History, Ideology, Theology
Reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer

Lester L. Grabbe, Ancient Israel: What Do We Know and How Do We Know It?
Reviewed by Brian B. Schmidt

Leslie Houlden, ed., Decoding Early Christianity: Truth and Legend in the Early Church
Reviewed by Robert M. Bowman Jr.

Karen L. King, The Secret Revelation of John
Reviewed by Francis Dalrymple-Hamilton

Sarianna Metso, The Serekh Texts
Reviewed by Eric F. Mason

Douglas E. Oakman, Jesus and the Peasants
Reviewed by Ernest van Eck

Richard Liong-Seng Phua, Idolatry and Authority: A Study of 1 Corinthians 8.1–11.1 in the Light of the Jewish Diaspora
Reviewed by Scott E. McClelland

Tom Thatcher, ed., What We Have Heard from the Beginning: The Past, Present, and Future of Johannine Studies
Reviewed by Cornelis Bennema

Nancy M. Tischler, Thematic Guide to Biblical Literature
Reviewed by Gerbern Oegema

Valerie M. Warrior, Roman Religion
Reviewed by Honora Howell Chapman

Francis Watson, Paul, Judaism, and the Gentiles: Beyond the New Perspective
Reviewed by James D. G. Dunn

RBL Newsletter, 6 August 2008

The following new reviews have been added to the Review of Biblical Literature.

Efrain Agosto, Servant Leadership: Jesus and Paul
Reviewed by Stephan Joubert

L. William Countryman, Dirt, Greed, and Sex: Sexual Ethics in the New Testament and Their Implications for Today
Reviewed by Will Deming

April D. DeConick, The Thirteenth Apostle: What the Gospel of Judas Really Says
Reviewed by Arie W. Zwiep

William Loader, Enoch, Levi, and Jubilees on Sexuality: Attitudes towards Sexuality in the Early Enoch Literature, the Aramaic Levi Document, and the Book of Jubilees
Reviewed by Jessica Tinklenberg deVega

Meir Lubetski, ed., New Seals and Inscriptions, Hebrew, Idumean and Cuneiform
Reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer

Jill Middlemas, The Templeless Age: An Introduction to the History, Literature, and Theology of the Exile
Reviewed by Lester L. Grabbe

Joy A. Schroeder, Dinah’s Lament: The Biblical Legacy of Sexual Violence in Christian Interpretation
Reviewed by Yael Shemesh
Reviewed by Ron Clark

Oskar Skarsaune and Reidar Hvalvik, eds., Jewish Believers in Jesus
Reviewed by Elizabeth Boddens Hosang and Bart J. Koet

Kimberly B. Stratton, Naming the Witch: Magic, Ideology, and Stereotype in the Ancient World
Reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus

RBL Newsletter, 23 July 2008

The following new reviews have been added to the Review of Biblical Literature.

Roland Boer, Rescuing the Bible
Reviewed by D. A. Carson

April D. DeConick, The Thirteenth Apostle: What the Gospel of Judas Really Says
Reviewed by Stephan Witetschek

John H. Elliott, 1 Peter: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary
Reviewed by Pheme Perkins

Jane DeRose Evans, The Coins and the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Economy of Palestine
Reviewed by Mark R. Fairchild

Albert V. Garcilazo, The Corinthian Dissenters and the Stoics
Reviewed by Stephan Joubert

Suzanne Watts Henderson, Christology and Discipleship in the Gospel of Mark
Reviewed by W. R. Telford

Helen Leneman, The Performed Bible: The Story of Ruth in Opera and Oratorio
Reviewed by Elisabeth Birnbaum

Paul L. Maier, trans., Eusebius: The Church History
Reviewed by Sabrina Inowlocki

Pheme Perkins, Introduction to the Synoptic Gospels
Reviewed by Peter J. Judge

Jean-Michel Poffet, Daniel Brizemeure, Noël Lacoudre, and Émile Puech, Le Rouleau de cuivre de la grotte 3 de Qumran (3Q15): Expertise - Restauration - Epigraphie
Reviewed by Brian Schultz

Alfred Rahlfs; Detlef Fraenkel, ed., Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments: Bd. I, 1: Die Überlieferung bis zum VIII. Jahrhundert
Reviewed by Johann Cook

Wayne G. Rollins and D. Andrew Kille, eds., Psychological Insight into the Bible: Texts and Readings
Reviewed by E. H. Scheffler

Deborah W. Rooke, ed., A Question of Sex? Gender and Difference in the Hebrew Bible and Beyond
Reviewed by Athalya Brenner

Phillip Sigal, The Halakhah of Jesus of Nazareth according to the Gospel of Matthew
Reviewed by Roland Deines
Reviewed by Dorothy Jean Weaver

Johann Anselm Steiger and Ulrich Heinen, eds., Isaaks Opferung (Gen 22) in den Konfessionen und Medien der frühen Neuzeit
Reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer

Jan G. van der Watt, An Introduction to the Johannine Gospel and Letters
Reviewed by Tom Thatcher

RBL Newsletter, 16 July 2008

The following new reviews have been added to the Review of Biblical Literature. See also below for new reviews in The Bible and Critical Theory.

Kevin L. Anderson, “But God Raised Him from the Dead”: The Theology of Jesus’ Resurrection in Luke-Acts
Reviewed by Lidija Novakovic

Norbert Baumert, Sorgen des Seelsorgers: Übersetzung und Auslegung des ersten Korintherbriefes
Reviewed by Helmut Schwier

Jon L. Berquist, ed., Approaching Yehud: New Approaches to the Study of the Persian Period
Reviewed by Armin Siedlecki

Adela Yarbro Collins, Mark: A Commentary
Reviewed by Edwin Broadhead

Johanna Dorman, The Blemished Body: Deformity and Disability in the Qumran Scrolls
Reviewed by T. M. Lemos

Douglas R. Edwards and C. Thomas McCollough, eds., The Archaeology of Difference: Gender, Ethnicity, Class and the “Other” in Antiquity: Studies in Honor of Eric M. Meyers
Reviewed by Aren M. Maeir

Avraham Faust, Israel’s Ethnogenesis: Settlement, Interaction, Expansion and Resistance
Reviewed by Kenton L. Sparks

Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert and Martin S. Jaffee, eds., The Cambridge Companion to the Talmud and Rabbinic Literature
Reviewed by Joshua Schwartz

Mary Gerhart and Fabian E. Udoh, eds., The Christianity Reader
Reviewed by Mark Reasoner

Rowan A. Greer and Margaret M. Mitchell, The “Belly-Myther” of Endor: Interpretations of 1 Kingdoms 28 in the Early Church
Reviewed by D. Jeffrey Bingham

Christiana de Groot and Marion Ann Taylor, eds., Recovering Nineteenth-Century Women Interpreters of the Bible
Reviewed by Athalya Brenner

John Jarick, 1 Chronicles
Reviewed by Steven L. McKenzie

Anne Lapidus Lerner, Eternally Eve: Images of Eve in the Hebrew Bible, Midrash, and Modern Jewish Poetry
Reviewed by Lieve M. Teugels

Andrew M. Mbuvi, Temple, Exile and Identity in 1 Peter
Reviewed by David G. Horrell

André Munzinger, Discerning the Spirits: Theological and Ethical Hermeneutics in Paul
Reviewed by Lee S. Bond
Reviewed by Victor Paul Furnish

Stephen W. Need, Paul Today: Challenging Readings of Acts and the Epistles
Reviewed by Steve Walton

Barclay M. Newman, ed., The UBS Greek New Testament: A Reader’s Edition
Reviewed by Steven R. Johnson

Bridget Gilfillan Upton, Hearing Mark’s Endings: Listening to Ancient Popular Texts through Speech Act Theory
Reviewed by W. R. Telford

Jan G. van der Watt, An Introduction to the Johannine Gospel and Letters
Reviewed by D. A. Carson

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BOOK REVIEWS

John J. Collins, The Bible after Babel: Historical Criticism in a Postmodern Age
Reviewed by George Aichele

Corinna Riva and Nicholas C. Vella, eds., Debating Orientalization: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Change in the Ancient Mediterranean
Reviewed by Michael Carden

Steven Schweitzer, Reading Utopia in Chronicles
Reviewed by Roland Boer

David Rhoads, From Every People and Nation: The Book of Revelation in Intercultural Perspective
Reviewed by Rohun Park

Dan O. Via, Divine Justice, Divine Judgment: Rethinking the Judgment of Nations
Reviewed by Kathryn Imray

Hector Avalos, The End of Biblical Studies
Reviewed by Peter D Miscall

J. W. Rogerson, According to the Scriptures: The Use of the Bible in Social, Moral and Political Questions
Reviewed by Craig Martin

Jerome T. Walsh, Ahab: The Construction of a King
Reviewed by Lou McNeil

Ward Blanton, Displacing Christian Origins: Philosophy, Secularity and the New Testament
Reviewed by Richard Walsh

Fiona Black, ed., The Recycled Bible: Autobiography, Culture and the Space Between
Reviewed by Christina Petterson

Anne F. Elvey, An Ecological Feminist Reading of the Gospel of Luke
Reviewed by Rohun Park

Warren S. Goldstein, ed., Marx, Critical Theory and Religion: A Critique of Rational Choice
Reviewed by Roland Boer

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