Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (June 13, 2014)

The latest reviews in the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

• Jenny R. Labendz, Socratic Torah: Non-Jews in Rabbinic Intellectual Culture, reviewed by Joshua Schwartz
• Thomas L. Thompson, Biblical Narrative and Palestine’s History: Changing Perspectives 2, reviewed by Ralph K. Hawkins

New Testament and Cognate Studies

• Bruce W. Longenecker, Hearing the Silence: Jesus on the Edge and God in the Gap—Luke 4 in Narrative Perspective, reviewed by Dieter T. Roth
• Timothy Milinovich, Beyond What Is Written: The Performative Structure of 1 Corinthians, reviewed by Matthew R. Malcolm
• Joel B. Green and Lee Martin McDonald, eds., The World of the New Testament: Cultural, Social, and Historical Contexts, reviewed by John J. Pilch
• Ekkehard W. Stegemann; Christina Tuor and Peter Wick, eds., Der Römerbrief: Brennpunkte der Rezeption, reviewed by Oda Wischmeyer

Miscellaneous

• Marielle Frigge, Beginning Biblical Studies, reviewed by Markus Lang
• Jill Middlemas, David J. A. Clines, and Else K. Holt, eds., The Centre and the Periphery: A European Tribute to Walter Brueggemann, reviewed by Chadwick Eggleston
• Eileen M. Schuller and Carol A. Newsom, The Hodayot (Thanksgiving Psalms): A Study Edition of 1QHa, reviewed by Philippus J. Botha
• Caroline Vander Stichele and Hugh S. Pyper, eds., Text, Image, and Otherness in Children’s Bibles: What Is in the Picture?, reviewed by David R. Jackson