J. David Stark

Tag: Jewish Scriptures

  • Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (December 15, 2012)

    The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies Moshe Bar-Asher and Devorah Dimant, eds., Meghillot [Hebrew]: Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls, VIII-IX, reviewed by George Brooke Abigail Pelham, Contested Creations in the Book of Job: The-World-as-It-Ought- and-Ought-Not-to-Be, reviewed by Norman Habel Beat Weber, Werkbuch Psalmen III: Theologie und Spiritualität des Psalters und…

  • Journal of Biblical Literature 131, no. 4

    The latest issue of the Journal of Biblical Literature includes: Jonathan Kaplan, “1 Samuel 8:11-18 as ‘A Mirror for Princes’” Nizzim Amzallag and Mikhal Avriel, “The Cryptic Meaning of the Isaiah 14 Māšāl“ Mark Hamilton, “Isaiah 32 as Literature and Political Meditation” Mark Awabdy, “Yhwh Exegetes Torah: How Ezekiel 44:7–9 Bars Foreigners from the Sanctuary” Christian Stadel, “A…

  • Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (November 23, 2012)

    The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies Giovanni Garbini, Letteratura e politica nell’Israele antico, reviewed by Dempsey Rosales Acosta Benno Jacob, The First Book of the Bible: Genesis (augmented edition), edited by Ernest Jacob and Walter Jacob, reviewed by Joel S. Baden Dale Launderville, Celibacy in the Ancient World: Its Ideal and Practice…

  • Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (November 9, 2012)

    The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies Victor P. Hamilton, Exodus: An Exegetical Commentary, reviewed by Brian D. Russell Matthias Henze, ed., A Companion to Biblical Interpretation in Early Judaism, reviewed by Lester Grabbe Sara M. Koenig, Isn’t This Bathsheba? A Study in Characterization, reviewed by Rachelle Gilmour Amy-Jill Levine and Marc…

  • In the Mail: Tigay, Deuteronomy

    The volume has been available for quite some time, but in yesterday’s mail arrived Jeffrey Tigay’s Deutronomy (The JPS Torah Commentary, 1996). According to the publisher, The JPS Torah Commentary series guides readers through the words and ideas of the Torah. Each volume is the work of a scholar who stands at the pinnacle of his…

  • NETS Online

    The University of Pennsylvania has made available online a series of PDFs containing the New English Translation of the Septuagint (Oxford, 2009). In keeping with the NETS’s printed text, the beginning of each file also contains a good introduction to the translation that it provides (HT: Charles Jones).