Tag: Jewish Backgrounds

  • In the (e)mail: Nanos and Zetterholm, “Paul within Judaism”

    In addition to the Boccacci and Segovia and Rodríguez and Thiessen volumes, Fortress Press has kindly, if accidentally, passed along a review copy of Mark Nanos and Magnus Zetterholm’s edited volume Paul within Judaism: Restoring the First-century Context to the Apostle (2015). According to the book’s blurb: In these chapters, a group of renowned international scholars seek…

  • In the (e)mail: Boccaccini and Segovia, “Paul the Jew”

    In my email recently, I found Fortress Press had kindly provided a review copy of Gabriele Boccaccini and Carlos Segovia’s edited volume Paul the Jew: Rereading the Apostle as a Figure of Second Temple Judaism (2016). According to the book’s blurb: The decades-long effort to understand the apostle Paul within his Jewish context is now firmly established in…

  • Journal of the Jesus Movement in its Jewish Setting

    Access to the Journal of the Jesus Movement in its Jewish Setting is open and available online. JJMJS is: a peer-reviewed academic open access journal, published electronically (immediate free online availability) in co-operation with Eisenbrauns, with support of McMaster University and Caspari Center….   The journal aims, uniquely, to advance scholarship on this crucial period in…

  • Thesis-style Numistmatism Wanted

    From AWOL: The American Numismatic Society has created an Open Access digital library. One purpose is to host unpublished and/or orphaned MA and PhD theses/dissertations that have numismatic content. As a part of this library your thesis will be Open Access, full-text searchable, and http://schema.org properties will help Google relevance. If you (or someone you…

  • Un-Bock-sing the Importance of Backgrounds

    The Logos blog has a couple minute and slightly humorous segment from Darrell Bock on the importance of background information for New Testament Studies.

  • Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 55, no. 3

    The Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 55, no. 3 includes: David W. Chapman and Andreas Köstenberger, “Jewish Intertestamental and Early Rabbinic Literature: An Annotated Bibliographic Resource Updated (Part 2) Abraham Kuruvilla, “The Aqedah (Genesis 22): What Is the Author Doing with What He Is Saying?” Greg Goswell, “The Temple Theme in the Book of Daniel”…