Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (February 23, 2012)

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

• Reinhard Achenbach and Martin Arneth, eds., »Gerechtigkeit und Recht zu üben« (Gen 18,19): Studien zur altorientalischen und biblischen Rechtsgeschichte, zur Religionsgeschichte Israels und zur Religionssoziologie: Festschrift für Eckart Otto zum 65. Geburtstag, reviewed by John Engle
• Blane Conklin, Oath Formulas in Biblical Hebrew, reviewed by Yael Ziegler
• Esther J. Hamori, “When Gods Were Men”: The Embodied God in Biblical and Near Eastern Literature, reviewed by Michael B. Hundley
• André LaCocque, The Captivity of Innocence: Babel and the Yahwist, reviewed by Richard S. Briggs
• Jonathan Wyn Schofer, Confronting Vulnerability: The Body and the Divine in Rabbinic Ethics, reviewed by Phillip Sherman

• Paul N. Anderson, The Riddles of the Fourth Gospel: An Introduction to John, reviewed by Cornelis Bennema
• Michael R. Licona, The Resurrection of Jesus: A New Historiographical Approach, reviewed by Daniel A. Smith
• Adiel Schremer, Brothers Estranged: Heresy, Christianity, and Jewish Identity in Late Antiquity, reviewed by Peter J. Tomson
• Christopher D. Stanley, ed., The Colonized Apostle: Paul in Postcolonial Eyes, reviewed by Matthew Forrest Lowe
• Robert Titley, A Poetic Discontent: Austin Farrer and the Gospel of Mark, reviewed by Richard Pervo