Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

• Avraham Faust, Judah in the Neo-Babylonian Period: The Archaeology of Desolation, reviewed by Ulrich Berges
• Oded Lipschits, Gary N. Knoppers, and Manfred Oeming, eds., Judah and the Judeans in the Achaemenid Period: Negotiating Identity in an International Context, reviewed by Frank H. Polak
• Kathleen M. O’Connor, Jeremiah: Pain and Promise, reviewed by Bob Becking
• Karin Hedner Zetterholm, Jewish Interpretation of the Bible: Ancient and Contemporary, reviewed by Marianne Grohmann and by Andrea L. Weiss

New Testament and Cognate Studies

• Richard S. Ascough, Philip A. Harland, and John S. Kloppenborg, Associations in the Greco-Roman World: A Sourcebook, reviewed by Richard I. Pervo
• G. K. Beale, Handbook on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament: Exegesis and Interpretation, reviewed by Maarten J. J. Menken and by Pheme Perkins
• Andrew B. McGowan and Kent Harold Richards, eds., Method and Meaning: Essays on New Testament Interpretation in Honor of Harold W. Attridge, reviewed by Dennis R. MacDonald
• Steve Moyise, Later New Testament Writers and Scripture: The Old Testament in Acts, Hebrews, the Catholic Epistles and Revelation, reviewed by Yongbom Lee

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

• Lawrence Boadt, Reading the Old Testament: An Introduction, edited by Richard Clifford and Daniel Harrington, reviewed by Sarah Ward
• Yoram Hazony, The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture, reviewed by Steven Dunn
• Otto Kaiser, Gott, Mensch und Geschichte: Studien zum Verständnis des Menschen und seiner Geschichte in der klassischen, biblischen und nachbiblischen Literatur, reviewed by Hans Dieter Betz
• Swift Edgar, ed., The Vulgate Bible, Volume 2: The Historical Books, reviewed by Ralph K. Hawkins
• Zipora Talshir, ed., Israel and Its Land: Inscriptions and History: Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of Shmuel Ahituv on the Occasion of His Retirement [Hebrew], reviewed by Aren M. Maeir

General Biblical and Cognate Studies

• Maxine L. Grossman, ed., Rediscovering the Dead Sea Scrolls: An Assessment of Old and New Approaches and Methods, reviewed by Laura Quick
• David Lyle Jeffrey, ed., The King James Bible and the World It Made, reviewed by Francis Dalrymple-Hamilton
• Carol A. Newsom, Sharon H. Ringe, and Jacqueline E. Lapsley, eds., Women’s Bible Commentary, reviewed by Alice L. Laffey
• Brent A. Strawn, ed., The Bible and the Pursuit of Happiness: What the Old and New Testaments Teach Us about the Good Life, reviewed by Wayne G. Rollins
• Linden E. Youngquist, Q 6:37–42: Not Judging—The Blind Leading the Blind—The Disciple and the Teacher—The Speck and the Beam, reviewed by David Sloan

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

• Victor H. Matthews, The Hebrew Prophets and Their Social World: An Introduction, reviewed by Aren M. Maeir and by Stewart Moore
• Jonathan T. Pennington, Reading the Gospels Wisely: A Narrative and Theological Introduction, reviewed by Joel B. Green
• Iain Provan and Mark J. Boda, eds., Let Us Go Up to Zion: Essays in Honour of H. G. M. Williamson on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday, reviewed by Keith Bodner
• David T. Runia and Gregory E. Sterling, eds., Studia Philonica Annual XXIV, 2012, reviewed by Scott Mackie
• Philippe Wajdenbaum, Argonauts of the Desert: Structural Analysis of the Hebrew Bible, reviewed by Casper J. Labuschagne

New Testament and Cognate Studies

• Richard B. Hays and Stefan Alkier, eds., Revelation and the Politics of Apocalyptic Interpretation, reviewed by Greg Carey
• Matthias Konradt, Israel, Kirche und die Völker im Matthäusevangelium, reviewed by Donald Senior
• Daniel Marguerat, Lukas, der erste christliche Historiker: Eine Studie zur Apostelgeschichte, reviewed by Thomas Bergholz
• Anthony B. Robinson and Robert W. Wall, Called to Lead: Paul’s Letters to Timothy for a New Day, reviewed by James Howard

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The latest issue of the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society arrived in yesterday’s mail and includes the following:

• Paul House, “Investing in the Ruins: Jeremiah and Theological Vocation”
• Daniel Block, “‘What Do These Stones Mean?’: The Riddle of Deuteronomy 27″
• Paul Tanner, “The Cost of Discipleship: Losing One’s Life for Jesus’ Sake”
• Greg Rhodea, “Did Matthew Conceive a Virgin?: Isaiah 7:14 and the Birth of Jesus”
• Daniel Wallace, “Sharp’s Rule Revisited: A Response to Stanley Porter”
• Stanley Porter, “Granville Sharp’s Rule: A Response to Daniel Wallace, Or Why a Critical Book Review Should Be Left Alone”
• Daniel Wallace, “Granville Sharp’s Rule: A Rejoinder to Stan Porter”
• Walter Schultz, “Jonathan Edwards’s Concept of an Original Ultimate End”
• Shawn Bawulski, “Reconciliationism, a Better View of Hell: Reconciliationism and Eternal Punishment”

• Karel Jongeling and Robert Kerr, eds., Late Punic Epigraphy
• Matthias Henze, The Syriac Apocalypse of Daniel
• Mark Smith, God in Translation

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

• Gary M. Beckman, Trevor R. Bryce, and Eric H. Cline, The Ahhiyawa Texts, reviewed by Paul Sanders
• Walter Brueggemann, David and His Theologian: Literary, Social, and Theological Investigations of the Early Monarchy, reviewed by Andrea Ravasco
• James L. Crenshaw, Reading Job: A Literary and Theological Commentary, reviewed by Norman Habel
• Jonathan Grossman, Esther: The Outer Narrative and the Hidden Reading, reviewed by Kelly A. Whitcomb
• Irene Schulmeister, Israels Befreiung aus Ägypten: Eine Formeluntersuchung zur Theologie des Deuteronomiums, reviewed by Peter Porzig

New Testament and Cognate Studies

• Thomas R. Schreiner, Luke Timothy Johnson, Douglas A. Campbell, and Mark D. Nanos, Four Views on the Apostle Paul, edited by Michael F. Bird, reviewed by Arthur J. Dewey
• Markus Bockmuehl, Simon Peter in Scripture and Memory: The New Testament Apostle in the Early Church, reviewed by Finn Damgaard
• William Loader, The New Testament on Sexuality, reviewed by Colleen M. Conway

Miscellaneous

• George W. E. Nickelsburg and Michael E. Stone, eds., Early Judaism: Text and Documents on Faith and Piety, reviewed by David M. Maas
• John J. Pilch, A Cultural Handbook to the Bible, reviewed by Jeremiah W. Cataldo

• Logos Bible Software adds select works of C. K. Barrett and the Justification and Variegated Nomism set to their pre-publication  program.
• Lawrence Schiffman considers Jubilees’ rationale for Torah’s commandments.
• J.-L. Simonet comments on what may be some newly-identified lectionary leaves.
• Tommy Wasserman notes the forthcoming Biblia Graeca from Eisenbrauns.

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The next issue of the Biblical Theology Bulletin includes:

• Richard E. DeMaris, “Sacrifice, an Ancient Mediterranean Ritual”
• James F. McGrath, “On Hearing (Rather Than Reading) Intertextual Echoes: Christology and Monotheistic Scriptures in an Oral Context”
• Madison N. Pierce, “War: Fighting the Enemies of God, not Man”
• John J. Pilch, “Exploring Periods of Psychological Development in MENA (Middle East North Africa) Societies: A Tentative Model”

• Zotero 4.0.4 is now available with some minor improvements over the previous stable version.
• Joseph Kelly highlights some good advice about how not to write a thesis or dissertation.
• Logos Bible Software has added the Aramaic Bible series to their pre-publication  program.

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I’ve just now noticed, but a stable release of Zotero 4 became available earlier this week. This release includes a substantial number of updates over previous versions. For highlights, see here, or peruse the whole change log.

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The SBL Handbook of Style (e.g., §8.2) suggests several abbreviations that involve small capital letters. It had previously escaped my notice, but Zotero’s rich text markup will support the use of small capitals in a citation’s prefix or suffix fields. Zotero will turn text into small capitals if the text is enclosed by:

<span style=”font-variant:small-caps;”> and </span>

Or, apparently also the simpler:

<sc> and </sc>

For more information on this feature, see this forum discussion and the general list of rich text formatting options available for Zotero citations.

• Joshua Philpot, “Exodus 34:29–35 and Moses’ Shining Face”
• Edward Bridge, “The Metaphoric Use of Slave Terms in the Hebrew Bible”
• Gregory Goswell, “Joshua and Kingship”
• Gregory Wong, “A Farewell to Arms: Goliath’s Death as Rhetoric against Faith in Arms”
• David DeSilva, “The Human Ideal, the Problem of Evil, and Moral Responsibility in 4 Maccabees”

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

• Philip R. Davies and Diana Vikander Edelman, eds., The Historian and the Bible: Essays in Honour of Lester L. Grabbe, reviewed by George C. Heider
• Robert Gnuse, No Tolerance for Tyrants: The Biblical Assault on Kings and Kingship, reviewed by James M. Bos

New Testament and Cognate Studies

• Kristina Dronsch, Bedeutung als Grundbegriff neutestamentlicher Wissenschaft: Texttheoretische und semiotische Entwürfe zur Kritik der Semantik dargelegt anhand einer Analyse zu zu [akouein] in Mk 4, reviewed by Sidney A. Martin II
• Douglas Harink, Paul, Philosophy, and the Theopolitical Vision: Critical Engagements with Agamben, Badiou, Zizek, and Others, reviewed by Troels Engberg-Pedersen
• Martin C. Salter, The Power of Pentecost: An Examination of Acts 2:17–21, reviewed by Chris L. de Wet

Broader Biblical and Contextual Studies

• Matthew A. Collins, The Use of Sobriquets in the Qumran Dead Sea Scrolls, reviewed by Ian Werrett
• Radcliffe G. Edmonds III, The “Orphic” Gold Tablets and Greek Religion: Further along the Path, reviewed by Edmund P. Cueva
• Hayim Lapin, Rabbis as Romans: The Rabbinic Movement in Palestine, 100–400 CE, reviewed by Steven Fine
• Anne Pasquier, Daniel Marguerat, and André Wénin, eds., L’intrigue dans le récit biblique: Quatrième colloque international du RRENAB, Université Laval, Québec, 29 mai-1er juin 2008, reviewed by Johanna Brankaer
• Davis A. Young and Ralph F. Stearley, The Bible, Rocks and Time: Geological Evidence for the Age of the Earth, reviewed by David M. Maas

Reverend Samuel Rolles Driver (1846–1914; Photo credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)

Google Books has full-text PDFs freely available for the following works by S. R. Driver:

• Commentary on Deuteronomy (International Critical Commentary; 1895; repr., 1903)
  
• Introduction to the Literature of the Old Testament (International Theological Library; 1891)

BibTeX-formatted bibliography information for these texts is available here.

This article develops five features that describe the conceptualizations of the event of transference grammaticalized by New Testament verbs, and uses these features to formulate a model of the possible New Testament usages of transference. The discussion resolves all New Testament occurrences of verbs that designate transference into one of eighteen usages with distinct feature descriptions, and considers the usages of transference predicted by the feature model but not realized in the New Testament.

For the full article, please see here.