RBL Newsletter (October 4, 2009)

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include the following:

New Testament and Cognate Studies

• Lars Aejmelaeus and Antti Mustakallio, eds., The Nordic Paul: Finnish Approaches to Pauline Theology, reviewed by Erik Heen
• Dietrich-Alex Koch, Hellenistisches Christentum: Schriftverständnis-Ekklesiologie-Geschichte, reviewed by Friedrich Reiterer
• M. Sydney Park, Submission within the Godhead and the Church in the Epistle to the Philippians: An Exegetical and Theological Examination of the Concept of Submission in Philippians 2 and 3, reviewed by Mark A. Jennings
• Jonathan T. Pennington and Sean M. McDonough, Cosmology and New Testament Theology, reviewed by Michael J. Lakey
• Enno Edzard Popkes, Die Theologie der Liebe Gottes in den johanneischen Schriften: Zur Semantik der Liebe und zum Motivkreis des Dualismus, reviewed by Jan G. van der Watt
• Jens Schröter, Von Jesus zum Neuen Testament: Studien zur urchristlichen Theologiegeschichte und zur Entstehung des neutestamentlichen Kanons, reviewed by Nils Neumann
• David Sim and Boris Repschinski, eds., Matthew and His Christian Contemporaries, reviewed by Glenna Jackson
• Lawrence M. Wills, Not God’s People: Insiders and Outsiders in the Biblical World, reviewed by Lara van der Zee-Hanssen

Other Fields

• Philip S. Alexander, The Targum of Lamentations: Translated, with a Critical Introduction, Apparatus, and Notes, reviewed by Archie Wright
• Sandra Gravett, Karla Bohmbach, F. V. Greifenhagen, and Donald Polaski, An Introduction to the Hebrew Bible: A Thematic Approach, reviewed by J. Dwayne Howell
• Rachel Mairs and Alice Stevenson, eds., Current Research in Egyptology 2005: Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Symposium, University of Cambridge 2005, reviewed by Roxana Flammini
• Gershom M. H. Ratheiser, Mitzvoth Ethics and the Jewish Bible: The End of Old Testament Theology, reviewed by Ben Ollenburger
• David Wilhite, Tertullian the African: An Anthropological Reading of Tertullian’s Context and Identities, reviewed by Ilaria L. E. Ramelli
• Frank Yamada, Configurations of Rape in the Hebrew Bible: A Literary Analysis of Three Rape Narratives, reviewed by Susanne Scholz