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Chris Stevens has the latest article in the Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism, “John 9.38-39a: A Scribal Interjection for Literary Reinforcement.”

In the Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism, Raymond Jachowski discusses “The Death of Herod the Great and the Latin Josephus: Re-examining the Twenty-second Year of Tiberius.”

Heiser, Supernatural The folks at Lexham Press have kindly sent along a copy of Michael Heiser’s book, Supernatural. Heiser holds a PhD in Hebrew Bible and Semitic Languages from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Supernatural is a follow-up to Heiser’s previous volume Unseen Realm (Lexham, 2015; see Supernatural, 9). Both continue following up on themes Heiser previously explored in his doctoral thesis on “The Divine Council in Late Canonical and Non-Canonical Second Temple Jewish Literature” (2004). ...

From AWOL: Auctor is the postgraduate journal of the Royal Holloway (University of London) Classics department. Our aim is to provide a high quality peer-reviewed journal, where postgraduates at any stage in their career can publish notes or articles pertaining to the classical world. We do not discriminate and so not only welcome submissions in Classical literature, but also from archaeology to reception, and everything in-between. ...

November’s freebies at Logos Bible Software include several fine texts: Lutz, Matthew (Hermeneia, vol. 1)—with vol. 2 coming in at $1.99. Kuyper, Collected Works in Public Theology (excerpts) Caesar, Gallic War (Loeb Classical Library) Update: Verbum now shows November’s free text too: Bernard of Clairvaux’s sermons on Advent and Christmas. ...

Yes, search, but also read, note, and remember.

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 One purpose is to host unpublished and/or orphaned MA and PhD theses/dissertations that have numismatic content.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 know) wants their research hosted for free (CC-BY license) alongside other numismatic work, email Andrew Reinhard at areinhard@numismatics.org. ...

The Faithlife platform family (e.g., Logos, Noet) now has Mortimer Adler’s 60-volume Great Books of the Western World (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1990) available for preorder. It seems the information from Adler’s Syntopicon has also been embedded within this digital version of the series.

Harrington, Revelation (Sacra Pagina) Verbum’s free book for October is Wilfrid Harrington’s Sacra Pagina volume on Revelation: More than any other New Testament writing, the Book of Revelation demands commentary. Its often-bewildering text is easily open to less-than-scholarly interpretation. Wilfrid Harrington brings his scholarship to the Book of Revelation and conveys its Christian message. He puts the work in its historical and social setting—a first-century CE province of the Roman Empire—and explores its social and religious background and its literary character. Through Harrington we hear clearly the challenge of John, the prophet, to the churches of his time—and to ours—not to compromise the Gospel message. ...

Advice from Murray Harris: As for the study habit that has proved most helpful in my academic career, it is this. There is no better way to become proficient in Greek, to gain a “feel” for the language, and to become enriched by the theology of the New Testament than the regular memorization of the Greek text. Paste a photocopy of verses or sections of the text on to cards and carefully reflect on it as you go about your daily exercise. ...

On MSN: The earliest known draft of the King James Bible, regarded as the most widely read work in English, has been unearthed among ancient papers lodged in a Cambridge college. American scholar Jeffrey Miller announced his year-old discovery in the Times Literary Supplement this week, saying it would help fill in gaps in understanding how the bible, published in 1611, came to be. ...

From the Open Journal of Philosophy mailing list: “We sincerely invite you to submit or recommend original research papers.”

A while ago, I mentioned Sacred Texts and Paradigmatic Revolutions would be coming to paperback. That format is now available at about a fourth or less of the MSRP for the hardback.

Treasures recently found: Explanation of the Apocalypse Historical Works (including Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation)

The latest issue of the Journal of Faith and the Academy is kindly carrying my article “Figuring Things Out: Lyrical Resourcement for Figural Readings of Biblical Literature in the Contemporary Academy.” The “lyrical” element in the essay is an attempt to think through some of how Nicholas of Lyra might provide a helpful rubric for understanding and pursuing responsibly figural readings of biblical literature within a contemporary, confessional academic context. ...

Sadly, the Paideia Centre for Public Theology is winding down. The Scripture and Hermeneutics and Scripture and Doctrine Seminars will, however, be continuing. Much of the Centre’s other work will also be taken up under the auspices of St. George’s Anglican Church.

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Markus Bockmuehl and Guy G. Stroumsa, eds., Paradise in Antiquity: Jewish and Christian Views, reviewed by Pieter G. R. de Villiers Tony Burke, ed., Ancient Gospel or Modern Forgery?: The Secret Gospel of Mark in Debate: Proceedings from the 2011 York University Christian Apocrypha Symposium, reviewed by James F. McGrath Andrew R. Davis, Tel Dan in Its Northern Cultic Context, reviewed by Bob Becking and by Aren M. Maeir Stephen Finlan, The Family Metaphor in Jesus’ Teaching: Gospel Imagery and Application, reviewed by Joanna Dewey Kai Kaniuth, Anne Löhnert, Jared L. Miller, Adelheid Otto, Michael Roaf, and Walther Sallaberger, eds., Tempel im Alten Orient, reviewed by Jeffrey L. Morrow Emma Loosley, The Architecture and Liturgy of the Bema in Fourth- to-Sixth-Century Syrian Churches, reviewed by Robert Morehouse Elvira Martín Contreras and Guadalupe Seijas de los Ríos-Zarzosa, Masora: La transmisión de la tradición de la Biblia Hebrea, reviewed by Amparo Alba Cecilia Halvor Moxnes, Jesus and the Rise of Nationalism: A New Quest for the Nineteenth Century Historical Jesus, reviewed by Craig A. Evans Pheme Perkins, First Corinthians, reviewed by H. H. Drake Williams III

For May, Logos Bible Software’s free volume is N. T. Wright’s The Lord and His Prayer(SPCK, 1996). The paired discount volume is Wright’s Paul: Fresh Perspectives (SPCK, 2005). ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Francis Borchardt, The Torah in 1 Maccabees: A Literary Critical Approach to the Text, reviewed by Thomas Hieke Cilliers Breytenbach and Jörg Frey, eds., Reflections on the Early Christian History of Religion—Erwägungen zur frühchristlichen Religionsgeschichte, reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus Walter Dietrich, Die Samuelbücher im deuteronomistischen Geschichtswerk: Studien zu den Geschichtsüberlieferungen des Alten Testaments II, reviewed by Mark W. Hamilton James D. G. Dunn, The Oral Gospel Tradition, reviewed by David B. Sloan Paul S. Evans and Tyler F. Williams, eds., Chronicling the Chronicler: The Book of Chronicles and Early Second Temple Historiography, reviewed by Michael D. Matlock Katharina Galor and Hanswulf Bloedhorn, The Archaeology of Jerusalem: From the Origins to the Ottomans, reviewed by Aren M. Maeir Moshe Garsiel, From Earth to Heaven: A Literary Study of the Eliijah Stories in the Book of Kings, reviewed by Keith Bodner and by David A. Glatt-Gilad Alison Ruth Gray, Psalm 18 in Words and Pictures: A Reading through Metaphor, reviewed by Leslie C. Allen Mignon R. Jacobs and Raymond F. Person Jr., eds., Israelite Prophecy and the Deuteronomistic History: Portrait, Reality, and the Formation of a History, reviewed by James M. Bos and by Thomas Wagner Ronald Jolliffe, Gertraud Harb, Christoph Heil, Anneliese Felber, and Angelika Magnes, Q11: 39a, 42, 39b, 41, 43-44: Woes against the Pharisees, reviewed by Peter J. Judge W. G. Lambert, Babylonian Creation Myths, reviewed by Michael S. Moore Daniel C. Matt, trans., The Zohar: Pritzker Edition (vol. 6), reviewed by Ralph K. Hawkins Abera M. Mengestu, God as Father in Paul: Kingship Language and Identity Formation in Early Christianity, reviewed by Inhee C. Berg Anthony M. Moore, Signs of Salvation: The Theme of Creation in John’s Gospel, reviewed by Brian J. Tabb Valérie Nicolet-Anderson, Constructing the Self: Thinking with Paul and Michel Foucault, reviewed by Chris L. de Wet Vernon K. Robbins, Who Do People Say I Am? Rewriting Gospel in Emerging Christianity, reviewed by Michael J. Kok David S. Vanderhooft and Abraham Winitzer, eds., Literature as Politics, Politics as Literature: Essays on the Ancient Near East in Honor of Peter Machinist, reviewed by Shawn W. Flynn Ryan Donald Wettlaufer, No Longer Written: The Use of Conjectural Emendation in the Restoration of the Text of the New Testament, the Epistle of James as a Case Study, reviewed by Jeff Cate

Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 58, no. 1 contents.

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Bill T. Arnold, Introduction to the Old Testament, reviewed by David W. Baker and by Anselm C. Hagedorn Mark A. Chancey, Carol Meyers, and Eric M. Meyers, eds., The Bible in the Public Square: Its Enduring Influence in American Life, reviewed by Randall Balmer Raymond F. Collins, Accompanied by a Believing Wife: Ministry and Celibacy in the Earliest Christian Communities, reviewed by William R. G. Loader Andrew Crislip, Thorns in the Flesh: Illness and Sanctity in Late Ancient Christianity, reviewed by John J. Pilch B. C. Hodge, Revisiting the Days of Genesis: A Study of the Use of Time in Genesis 1–11 in Light of Its Ancient Near Eastern and Literary Context, reviewed by Jeffery M. Leonard Jey J. Kanagaraj, John, reviewed by Jo-Ann Brant Laurel W. Koepf-Taylor, Give Me Children or I Shall Die: Children and Communal Survival in Biblical Literature, reviewed by Jason A. Riley Katherine Low, The Bible, Gender, and Reception History: The Case of Job’s Wife, reviewed by Jordan M. Scheetz Burton MacDonald, Larry G. Herr, D. Scott Quaintance, Geoffrey A. Clark, and Michael C. A. MacDonald, The Ayl to Ras an-Naqab Archaeological Survey, Southern Jordan 2005–2007, reviewed by Ralph K. Hawkins J. Gordon McConville, Joshua: Crossing Divides, reviewed by Trent C. Butler Douglas J. Moo, Galatians, reviewed by Richard Manly Adams Jr. and by Roy E. Ciampa James M. Morgan, Encountering Images of Spiritual Transformation: The Thoroughfare Motif within the Plot of Luke-Acts, reviewed by Jean-François Racine Reinhard Muller, Juha Pakkala, and Bas ter Haar Romeny, Evidence of Editing: Growth and Change of Texts in the Hebrew Bible, reviewed by John F. Quant Miguel Pérez Fernández and Olga Ruiz Morell, El Beso de Dios: Midrás de la Muerte de Moisés. Edición bilingüe hebreo-español y comentario, reviewed by Francisco García-Treto Allen P. Ross, A Commentary on the Psalms: 42–89, reviewed by Christine Jones Robert A. Spivey, D. Moody Smith, and C. Clifton Black, Anatomy of the New Testament: A Guide to Its Structure and Meaning, reviewed by Brian C. Small Jamie Viands, I Will Surely Multiply Your Offspring: An Old Testament Theology of the Blessing of Progeny with Special Attention to the Latter Prophets, reviewed by Marvin A. Sweeney Julius Wellhausen, Briefe, edited by Rudolf Smend, reviewed by James Alfred Loader

Charles Haws notes that Revue de Qumrân now has a website. In commemoration of the website’s launch about a dozen articles have been made openly available.

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Angelika Berlejung, Jan Dietrich, and Joachim Friedrich Quack, eds., Menschenbilder und Körperkonzepte im Alten Israel, in Ägypten und im Alten Orient, reviewed by Mark W. Hamilton William P. Brown, Wisdom’s Wonder: Character, Creation, and Crisis in the Bible’s Wisdom Literature, reviewed by James Alfred Loader Martin J. Buss, Toward Understanding the Hebrew Canon: A Form-Critical Approach, reviewed by Colin Toffelmire Nuria Calduch-Benages, ed., Wisdom for Life: Essays Offered to Honor Prof. Maurice Gilbert, SJ, on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday, reviewed by Katharine Dell Volkmar Fritz, The Emergence of Israel in the Twelfth and Eleventh Centuries B.C.E., reviewed by Lester L. Grabbe Hadi Ghantous, The Elijah-Hazael Paradigm and the Kingdom of Israel: The Politics of God in Ancient Syria-Palestine, reviewed by Aren M. Maeir Addison Hodges Hart, Taking Jesus at His Word: What Jesus Really Said in the Sermon on the Mount, reviewed by Joshua Chatraw Steven L. McKenzie and John Kaltner, eds., New Meanings for Ancient Texts: Recent Approaches to Biblical Criticism and Their Applications, reviewed by Emmanuel Nathan R. W. L. Moberly, Old Testament Theology: Reading the Hebrew Bible as Christian Scripture, reviewed by Trent C. Butler and by Wilhelm J. Wessels Roger Mohrlang, Paul and His Life-Transforming Theology: A Concise Introduction, reviewed by Bas van Os Francis J. Moloney, The Resurrection of the Messiah: A Narrative Commentary on the Resurrection Accounts in the Four Gospels, reviewed by Richard I. Pervo Joy A. Schroeder, Deborah’s Daughters: Gender Politics and Biblical Interpretation, reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer Dennis E. Smith and Joseph B. Tyson, eds., Acts and Christian Beginnings: The Acts Seminar Report, reviewed by Susana Funsten William J. Subash, The Dreams of Matthew 1:18–2:23: Tradition, Form, and Theological Investigation, reviewed by Bart J. Koet

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Itzhak Benyamini, Narcissist Universalism: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Paul’s Epistles, reviewed by Kari Syreeni Wim M. de Bruin, Isaiah 1–12 as Written and Read in Antiquity, reviewed by Ibolya Balla Trevor J. Burke and Brian S. Rosner, eds., Paul as Missionary: Identity, Activity, Theology, and Practice, reviewed by Ronald R. Clark J. Patout Burns Jr., Romans: Interpreted by Early Christian Commentators, reviewed by Daniel Patte and by Adam Ployd Beverly Roberts Gaventa, ed., Apocalyptic Paul: Cosmos and Anthropos in Romans 5–8, reviewed by Timothy Gombis Barbara Green, Jeremiah and God’s Plans of Well-Being, reviewed by Lissa M. Wray Beal Richard H. Hiers, Women’s Rights and the Bible: Implications for Christian Ethics and Social Policy, reviewed by L. Juliana Claassens William S. Kurz, Acts of the Apostles, reviewed by Thomas E. Phillips and by Troy M. Troftgruben A. James Murphy, Kids and Kingdom: The Precarious Presence of Children in the Synoptic Gospels, reviewed by Marianne Blickenstaff Ruth Poser, Das Ezechielbuch als Trauma-Literatur, reviewed by Michael S. Moore Robert M. Price, The Amazing Colossal Apostle: The Search for the Historical Paul, reviewed by Corneliu Constantineanu and by Glenn E. Snyder Ephraim Stern, The Material Culture of the Northern Sea Peoples in Israel, reviewed by Raz Kletter

Brevard Childs, Logos Bible Software has a further excellent resource available for free this month, Brevard Childs’ Old Testament Library volume on Isaiah. With this resource, Leslie Allen’s volume on Jeremiah comes for $0.99. ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Miryam T. Brand, Evil Within and Without: The Source of Sin and Its Nature as Portrayed in Second Temple Literature, reviewed by Rodney A. Werline Ronald E. Clements, Jerusalem and the Nations: Studies in the Book of Isaiah, reviewed by Bo H. Lim John A. Cook and Robert D. Holmstedt, Beginning Biblical Hebrew: A Grammar and Illustrated Reader, reviewed by Bálint Károly Zabán Jason von Ehrenkrook, Sculpting Idolatry in Flavian Rome: (An)Iconic Rhetoric in the Writings of Flavius Josephus, reviewed by Patrick McCullough David A. Fiensy and Ralph K. Hawkins, eds., The Galilean Economy in the Time of Jesus, reviewed by Ulrich Busse and by Sarah E. Rollens André Gagné and Jean-François Racine, eds., En marge du canon: Études sur les écrits apocryphes juifs et chrétiens, reviewed by Edmon L. Gallagher Jonathan S. Greer, Dinner at Dan: Biblical and Archaeological Evidence for Sacred Feasts at Iron Age II Tel Dan and Their Significance, reviewed by Aren M. Maeir Helen R. Jacobus, Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme, and Philippe Guillaume, eds., Studies on Magic and Divination in the Biblical World, reviewed by Craig A. Evans David Marcus, Scribal Wit: Aramaic Mnemonics in the Leningrad Codex, reviewed by Christopher Dost Susan Marks, First Came Marriage: The Rabbinic Appropriation of Early Jewish Wedding Ritual, reviewed by Joshua Schwartz David R. Nienhuis and Robert W. Wall, Reading the Epistles of James, Peter, John and Jude as Scripture: The Shaping and Shape of a Canonical Collection, reviewed by John Kloppenborg John Painter and David A. deSilva, James and Jude, reviewed by Darian Lockett Luis Sánchez Navarro, Escudriñar las Escrituras: Verbum Domini y la interpretación bíblica, reviewed by Jeffrey L. Morrow C. S. Song, In the Beginning Were Stories, Not Texts: Story Theology, reviewed by Michelle J. Morris

Lexham Bible Dictionary now includes among its entries my contributions on “Aquila,” “Emesa,” “Israel, Place,” and “Law in Second Temple Judaism.”

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Alex Damm, Ancient Rhetoric and the Synoptic Problem: Clarifying Markan Priority, reviewed by C. Clifton Black Michael Fieger, Jutta Krispenz, and Jörg Lanckau, eds., Wörterbuch alttestamentlicher Motive, reviewed by Trent Butler John Harrison and James D. Dvorak, eds., The New Testament Church: The Challenge of Developing Ecclesiologies, reviewed by Robert Matthew Calhoun Knut Martin Heim, Poetic Imagination in Proverbs: Variant Repetitions and the Nature of Poetry, reviewed by Bálint Károly Zabán Rüdiger Jungbluth, Im Himmel und auf Erden: Dimensionen von Königsherrschaft im Alten Testament, reviewed by Sven Petry Ian Christopher Levy, Philip D. W. Krey, and Thomas Ryan, eds., The Letter to the Romans, reviewed by Anders Runesson Herbert Marks, ed., The English Bible, King James Version: The Old Testament, reviewed by David G. Burke Francis J. Moloney, SDB, Love in the Gospel of John: An Exegetical, Theological, and Literary Study, reviewed by Catrin H. Williams JoAnn Scurlock and Richard H. Beal, eds., Creation and Chaos: A Reconsideration of Hermann Gunkel’s Chaoskampf Hypothesis, reviewed by Craig W. Tyson Christopher R. Seitz, The Character of Christian Scripture: The Significance of a Two-Testament Bible, reviewed by Stephen J. Andrews Anna Rebecca Solevåg, Birthing Salvation: Gender and Class in Early Christian Childbearing Discourse, reviewed by Sarah E. Rollens Michael D. Swartz, The Signifying Creator: Nontextual Sources of Meaning in Ancient Judaism, reviewed by Joshua Schwartz Abraham Terian, trans., Magnalia Dei: Biblical History in Epic Verse by Grigor Magistros, reviewed by Adam Carter McCollum Benyamim Tsedaka and Sharon Sullivan, eds., The Israelite Samaritan Version of the Torah: First English Translation Compared with the Masoretic Version, reviewed by James R. Blankenship J. Ross Wagner, Reading the Sealed Book: Old Greek Isaiah and the Problem of Septuagint Hermeneutics, reviewed by Johann Cook

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Robert B. Chisholm Jr., A Commentary on Judges and Ruth, reviewed by Mark E. Biddle John W. Daniels Jr., Gossiping Jesus: The Oral Processing of Jesus in John’s Gospel, reviewed by Peter J. Judge John Goldingay, Isaiah 56-66: Introduction, Text, and Commentary, reviewed by Johanna Erzberger Steven A. Hunt, D. Francois Tolmie, and Ruben Zimmermann, eds., Character Studies in the Fourth Gospel: Narrative Approaches to Seventy Figures in John, reviewed by Craig R. Koester Demetrios S. Katos, Palladius of Helenopolis: The Origenist Advocate, reviewed by Jon F. Dechow Phillip J. Long, Jesus the Bridegroom: The Origin of the Eschatological Feast as a Wedding Banquet in the Synoptic Gospels, reviewed by Marianne Blickenstaff Roberto Martínez, The Question of John the Baptist and Jesus’ Indictment of the Religious Leaders: A Critical Analysis of Luke 7:18–35, reviewed by Brian C. Dennert and by Bart J. Koet Benjamin J. Segal, A New Psalm: The Psalms as Literature, reviewed by Hallvard Hagelia N. T. Wright, Pauline Perspectives: Essays on Paul, 1978–2013, reviewed by Russell Morton

The latest issue of the Journal of Biblical Literature includes: Athalya Brenner-Idan, “Introduction to the Presidential Address” Fernando F. Segovia, “Presidential Address: Criticism in Critical Times: Reflections on Vision and Task” Duane E. Smith, “The Divining Snake: Reading Genesis 3 in the Context of Mesopotamian Ophiomancy” David E. S. Stein, “A Rejoinder concerning Genesis 3:6 and the NJPS Translation” Murray H. Lichtenstein, “The Fearsome Sword of Genesis 3:24” Kerry D. Lee, “Two Translations of HSS V 67 and Their Significance for Genesis 16, 21, and 30” Ken Brown, “Vengeance and Vindication in Numbers 31” Orly Keren and Hagit Taragan, “Merab, Saul’s Mute and Muffled Daughter” Joshua Bermanz, “The Legal Blend in Biblical Narrative (Joshua 20:1–9, Judges 6:25–31, 1 Samuel 15:2, 28:3–25, 2 Kings 4:1–7, Jeremiah 34:12–17, Nehemiah 5:1–12)” John B. Whitley, “עיפה in Amos 4:13: New Evidence for the Yahwistic Incorporation of Ancient Near Eastern Solar Imagery” Warren Carter, “Cross-Gendered Romans and Mark’s Jesus: Legion Enters the Pigs (Mark 5:1–20)” David Lertis Matson, “Pacifist Jesus? The (Mis)Translation of ἐᾶτε ἓως τούτου in Luke 22:51” Daniel Lynwood Smith, “Interrupted Speech in Luke-Acts” Ryan S. Schellenberg, “The First Pauline Chronologist? Paul’s Itinerary in the Letters and in Acts” Jennifer A. Glancy, “The Sexual Use of Slaves: A Response to Kyle Harper on Jewish and Christian Porneia”