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The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

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

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

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

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”

In addition to the Justification and Variegated Nomism set, Logos Bible Software now has recently added three other Mohr-Siebeck resources to their pre-publication program:

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

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

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

On the web:

• 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.

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”

On the web:

• 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.

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.

The latest issue of the Bulletin for Biblical Research arrived in yesterday’s mail and includes:

• 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”

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

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

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.

Paul Danove has the latest article in Biblical and Ancient Greek Linguistics, “Features of the Conceptualization of Transference in the New Testament”:

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.

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The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

• John E. Anderson, Jacob and the Divine Trickster: A Theology of Deception and Yhwh’s Fidelity to the Ancestral Promise in the Jacob Cycle, reviewed by Koog P. Hong
• Frank Lothar Hossfeld and Eric Zenger, Psalms 3: A Commentary on Psalms 101–150, reviewed by Leonard P. Maré
• Pirjo Lapinkivi, The Neo-Assyrian Myth of Istar’s Descent and Resurrection, reviewed by James R. Getz Jr.
• Jordan M. Scheetz, The Concept of Canonical Intertextuality and the Book of Daniel, reviewed by Philippus J. Botha and by Don Collett
• Janet Smith, Dust or Dew: Immortality in the Ancient Near East and in Psalm 49, reviewed by Ilaria L. E. Ramelli

New Testament and Cognate Studies

The latest issue of the Journal of Biblical Literature includes:

• John Dominic Crossan, “A Vision of Divine Justice: The Resurrection of Jesus in Eastern Christian Iconography”
• Jill Hicks-Keeton, “Already/Not Yet: Eschatological Tension in the Book of Tobit”
• Shane Berg, “Ben Sira, the Genesis Creation Accounts, and the Knowledge of God’s Will”
• Seth Bledsoe, “Can Ahiqar Tell Us Anything about Personified Wisdom?”
• Richard Steiner, “Four Inner-Biblical Interpretations of Genesis 49:10: On the Lexical and Syntactic Ambiguities of עַד as Reflected in the Prophecies of Nathan, Ahijah, Ezekiel, and Zechariah”
• Richard Hicks, “Markan Discipleship according to Malachi: The Significance of μὴ ἀποστερήσῃς in the Story of the Rich Man (Mark 10:17-22)”
• David Moffitt and Jacob Butera, “P. Duk. inv. 727r: New Evidence for the Meaning and Provenance of the Word Προσήλυτος”
• Ronald Troxel, “The Problem of Time in Joel”
• Jonathan Stökl, “The מתנבאות in Ezekiel 13 Reconsidered”

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

• Keith Bodner, Jeroboam’s Royal Drama, reviewed by Mark McEntire
• Erhard S. Gerstenberger, Israel in the Persian Period: The Fifth and Fourth Centuries B.C.E., reviewed by John Engle
• Edwin M. Good, Genesis 1–11: Tales of the Earliest World, reviewed by Brian D. Russell
• Michelle J. Levine, Nahmanides on Genesis: The Art of Biblical Portraiture, reviewed by George Savran
• Emily Teeter, Religion and Ritual in Ancient Egypt, reviewed by Michael B. Hundley

New Testament and Cognate Studies

Though it has apparently been on the chopping block for some time, Google Reader was a very useful tool. Even so, it has apparently come to the end of the road:

Google Reader will be retired on July 1, 2013. If you’d like to download a copy of all your Reader data before then, you can do so through Google Takeout. You’ll receive your subscription data in an XML file, and the following information will be downloaded as JSON files:

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The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

• Ulrich Berges, Jesaja: Der Prophet und Das Buch, reviewed by Francis Landy
• William G. Dever, The Lives of Ordinary People in Ancient Israel: Where Archaeology and the Bible Intersect, reviewed by Diana Edelman and by Aren M. Maeir
• Siegfried Kreuzer, Martin Meiser, and Marcus Sigismund, eds., Die Septuaginta: Entstehung, Sprache, Geschichte. 3. Internationale Fachtagung veranstaltet von Septuaginta Deutsch (LXX.D), Wuppertal 22.-25. Juli 2010, reviewed by Hans Förster
• Lisa M. Wolfe, Ruth, Esther, Song of Songs, and Judith, reviewed by L. Juliana Claassens

New Testament and Cognate Studies

Logos Bible Software is currently preparing the first English translation of Geerhardus Vos’s Reformed Dogmatics. By way of background regarding Vos:

[T]he “father of Reformed biblical theology,” was born 151 years ago this month. Vos, a professor of biblical theology at Princeton, lectured alongside many famous theologians, including J. Gresham Machen, B. B. Warfield, and Abraham Kuyper. So great was Vos’ academic insight that Kuyper offered him the chair of Old Testament studies at the Free University of Amsterdam when Vos was just 24.

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Unfortunate news from the Biblioblog Reference Library:

Our webhost, GoDaddy, decided to change the rules on us and has deleted the entire Biblioblog Reference Library database.

Beforehand we had enough space to keep the database working and pruned down to a size that was feasible, but in the course of the last few months, they decided to halve the allowable database size which made it impossible to house all of the data and indices. What’s worse is that after requests for a full backup of the database were made, they refused to provide anything but a corrupted partial backup. We tried very hard to make the chunked backups necessary to put the entire database into a format that we could move, but in the midst of it (moving millions of records only tens of thousands at a time) they pulled the plug.

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The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

• Melissa A. Jackson, Comedy and Feminist Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible: A Subversive Collaboration, reviewed by Kathryn D. Blanchard
• Tremper Longman III, Introducing the Old Testament: A Short Guide to Its History and Message, reviewed by Trent Butler
• James D. Nogalski, The Book of the Twelve: Hosea–Jonah, reviewed by Beth Stovell
• Kathleen M. Rochester, Prophetic Ministry in Jeremiah and Ezekiel, reviewed by Wilhelm J. Wessels

New Testament and Cognate Studies

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

• Yoram Cohen, The Scribes and Scholars of the City of Emar in the Late Bronze Age, reviewed by Bryan C. Babcock
• Urmas Nømmik, Die Freundesreden des ursprünglichen Hiobdialogs: Eine form- und traditionsgeschichtliche Studie, reviewed by Kyle C. Dunham
• Kathleen M. O’Connor, Jeremiah: Pain and Promise, reviewed by Wilhelm J. Wessels
• Moshe Simon-Shoshan, Stories of the Law: Narrative Discourse and the Construction of Authority in the Mishnah, reviewed by Joshua Schwartz
• Assaf Yasur-Landau, Jennie R. Ebeling, and Laura B. Mazow, eds., Household Archaeology in Ancient Israel and Beyond, reviewed by Ralph K. Hawkins

New Testament and Cognate Studies

A single-volume edition Robert Funk’s Beginning-Intermediate Grammar of Hellenistic Greek is due out in April and is now available for pre-order from Polebridge. According to the publisher’s description,

Originally published in three volumes in 1973, Robert Funk’s classic Beginning-Intermediate Grammar of Hellenistic Greek utilizes the insights of modern linguistics in its presentation of the basic features of ancient Greek grammar. Now redesigned and reformatted for ease of use, this single-volume third edition makes Funk’s ground-breaking work available once more.

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After about an 8-year term, Pope Benedict XVI is apparently set to resign on February 28, citing health difficulties. For more information and the NBC report from earlier this morning, see here.

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

New Testament and Cognate Studies

• Martin Bauspieß, Geschichte und Erkenntnis im lukanischen Doppelwerk: Eine exegetische Untersuchung zu einer christlichen Perspektive auf Geschichte, reviewed by Nils Neumann
• Darrell L. Bock, A Theology of Luke and Acts: God’s Promised Program, Realized for All Nations, reviewed by Ulrich Busse
• Daniel Durken, ed., The New Collegeville Bible Commentary: New Testament, reviewed by Ernest Van Eck
• Lars Hartman, Mark for the Nations: A Text- and Reader-Oriented Commentary, reviewed by Robert M. Fowler
• Rainer Metzner, Kaiphas: Der Hohepriester jenes Jahres: Geschichte und Deutung, reviewed by Thomas Bergholz

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

On the web:

• The SBL website now has a page with links to a number of program unit and seminar papers (HT: Charles Jones).
• Ohio State University has a special online exhibition about the King James Version (HT: Bill Warren).
• Zotero has seen a significant and a couple more minor updates over the past few days. The SBL citation style is also newly updated as of January 29.
• The W3 Consortium has a list of fraktur characters (e.g., for cases where they are used as text-critical siglia) and their corresponding Unicode character assignments. Among other fonts, Gentium Plus natively includes 1D510 (Majority Text) and 1D513 (Papyrus).

On the web:

• Rod Decker shares an update on his forthcoming Greek grammar.
• Logos Bible Software is wishing everyone a happy International Septuagint Day today with a substantial sale on their release of the Göttingen Septuagint (HT: Brian Davidson, Abram K-J).
• Jim Davila excerpts a Cambridge News story about funding that Cambridge and Oxford are seeking to keep together the Lewis-Gibson Genizah Collection at Westminster College.

On the web:

• Larry Hurtado comments on Alan Mugridge’s PhD thesis, “Stages of Development in Scribal Professionalism in Early Christian Circles,” which is currently under revision for publication.
• Nathan Eubank enters the biblioblogosphere (HT: Stephen Carlson).
• Baker is now releasing the “Teach the Text” commentary series. Currently available is Marvin Pate’s volume on Romans, and Robert Chisholm’s volume on Samuel is available for preorder (HT: M. Miller).

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

• Francis Landy, Hosea, reviewed by Gert T. M. Prinsloo
• Angela R. Roskop, The Wilderness Itineraries: Genre, Geography, and the Growth of Torah, reviewed by Nathan MacDonald
• Mark R. Sneed, The Politics of Pessimism in Ecclesiastes: A Social-Science Perspective, reviewed by Robert Williamson Jr.

New Testament and Cognate Studies

• Claire Clivaz and Jean Zumstein, eds., Reading New Testament Papyri in Context – Lire des papyrus du Nouveau Testament dans leur contexte, reviewed by Peter Arzt-Grabner
• Tobias Hägerland, Jesus and the Forgiveness of Sins: An Aspect of His Prophetic Mission, reviewed by William R. G. Loader
• Craig S. Keener, Romans, reviewed by Peter W. Gosnell

Second Temple Judaism

The 28th edition of the Nestle-Aland Greek New Testament, including the critical apparatus, is now available on Logos Bible Software’s prepublication program. For Peter Williams’ review of the edition earlier this week, see here.