Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (November 23, 2012)

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

• Giovanni Garbini, Letteratura e politica nell’Israele antico, reviewed by Dempsey Rosales Acosta
• Benno Jacob, The First Book of the Bible: Genesis (augmented edition), edited by Ernest Jacob and Walter Jacob, reviewed by Joel S. Baden
• Dale Launderville, Celibacy in the Ancient World: Its Ideal and Practice in Pre-Hellenistic Israel, Mesopotamia, and Greece, reviewed by Pancratius C. Beentjes
• Erle Leichty, The Royal Inscriptions of Esarhaddon, King of Assyria (680–669 BC), reviewed by Paul Sanders
• Lauren A. S. Monroe, Josiah’s Reform and the Dynamics of Defilement: Israelite Rites of Violence and the Making of a Biblical Text, reviewed by Ovidiu Creanga
• Randall Heskett and Brian P. Irwin, eds., The Bible as a Human Witness to Divine Revelation: Hearing the Word of God through Historically Dissimilar Traditions, reviewed by S. D. Giere

New Testament and Cognate Studies

• Frank J. Matera, Romans, reviewed by Pablo T. Gadenz
• Rob Starner, Kingdom of Power, Power of Kingdom: The Opposing World Views of Mark and Chariton, reviewed by Tom Nelligan
• Stephen O. Stout, The “Man Christ Jesus”: The Humanity of Jesus in the Teaching of the Apostle Paul, reviewed by Tony Costa

Miscellaneous

• Jan N. Bremmer, The Rise of Christianity through the Eyes of Gibbon, Harnack, and Rodney Stark, reviewed by Brent Nongbri