Bibliography

Logos Bible Software has recently released or will soon release several noteworthy resources:

• Brill Philo Studies Collection
• Comments on Waltke and O’Connor: An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax
• Camp Logos Live (DVD)
• Evangelical Exegetical Commentary
• Qumran Biblical Scrolls

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Now at number 3 on Amazon’s top free Kindle book list is Carolyn Curtis James’s The Gospel of Ruth: Loving God Enough to Break the Rules (Zondervan, 2008), and Zondervan presently has the EPUB edition for free also. The book boasts favorable blurbs from Robert Gundry, Timothy George, and Karen Jobes. According to the Amazon product page, what James describes

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If you’re a Facebook friend of Logos Bible Software, like their fan page, and you can download their edition of B. B. Warfield’s Canon of the New Testament: How and When Formed for free.

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[caption id=“attachment_7158” align=“alignright” width=“80” caption=“Martin Thielen”] [/caption] Now at number 9 on Amazon’s top free Kindle book list is Martin Thielen’s What’s the Least I Can Believe and Still Be a Christian?: A Guide to What Matters Most (Westminster/John Knox, 2011). According to the product page, Thielen is a United Methodist minister from Lebanon, Tennessee, and in the book, Thielen

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The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

• Daphna Arbel, J. R. C. Cousland, and Dietmar Neufeld, “And So They Went Out”: The Lives of Adam and Eve as Cultural Transformative Story, reviewed by Deborah Rooke
• Ehud Ben Zvi, Diana Edelman, and Frank Polak, eds., A Palimpsest: Rhetoric, Ideology, Stylistics, and Language Relating to Persian Israel, reviewed by Bob Becking
• Horace D. Hummel, Ezekiel 21–48, reviewed by Ralph K. Hawkins
• Dermot Anthony Nestor, Cognitive Perspectives on Israelite Identity, reviewed by Frank H. Polak
• Marco Nobile, Saggi su Ezechiele, reviewed by Donatella Scaiola
• Horst Seebass, Numeri: Kapitel 22,2-36,13, reviewed by John Engle

New Testament and Cognate Studies

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The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

New Testament and Cognate Studies

• Cornelis Bennema, Encountering Jesus: Character Studies in the Gospel of John, reviewed by Francis J. Moloney, S.D.B.
• Steven Fine, Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman World: Toward a New Jewish Archaeology, reviewed by Joshua Schwartz
• Ernst Käsemann, On Being a Disciple of the Crucified Nazarene: Unpublished Lectures and Sermons, reviewed by Wayne Coppins
• Andreas J. Köstenberger, A Theology of John’s Gospel and Letters: The Word, the Christ, the Son of God, reviewed by Craig R. Koester
• Luis Sanchez Navarro, ed., Pablo y Cristo.: La centralidad de Cristo en el Pensamiento de san Pablo, reviewed by Rodrigo Morales
• Mark Allan Powell, Introducing the New Testament: A Historical, Literary, and Theological Survey, reviewed by Peter J. Judge
• Carl N. Toney, Paul’s Inclusive Ethic: Resolving Community Conflicts and Promoting Mission in Romans 14–15, reviewed by James R. Harrison

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

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The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

New Testament and Cognate Studies

• Matthew E. Carlton, Translator’s Reference Translation of the Gospel of Luke, reviewed by Sylvie Raquel
• Werner H. Kelber and Samuel Byrskog, eds., Jesus in Memory: Traditions in Oral and Scribal Perspectives, reviewed by Stephan Witetschek
• Adrian Long, Paul and Human Rights: A Dialogue with the Father of the Corinthian Community, reviewed by Ronald R. Clark
• Mark Allan Powell, ed., Methods for Matthew, reviewed by InHee Cho
• Gerd Theißen, Erleben und Verhalten der ersten Christen: Eine Psychologie des Urchristentums, reviewed by Wayne Coppins

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

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The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Qumran and Cognate Studies

• John J. Collins, Beyond the Qumran Community: The Sectarian Movement of the Dead Sea Scrolls, reviewed by Philip R. Davies
• Jason Kalman and Jaqueline S. du Toit, Canada’s Big Biblical Bargain: How McGill University Bought the Dead Sea Scrolls, reviewed by Matthew A. Collins
• Daniel A. Machiela, The Dead Sea Genesis Apocryphon: A New Text and Translation with Introduction and Special Treatment of Columns 13–17, reviewed by Benjamin Ziemer
• Lawrence H. Schiffman, Qumran and Jerusalem: Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the History of Judaism, reviewed by Sidnie White Crawford

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

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The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

• Kevin R. Brine, Elena Ciletti, and Henrike Lähnemann, eds., The Sword of Judith: Judith Studies across the Disciplines, reviewed by Lawrence M. Wills
• Matthijs J. de Jong, Isaiah among the Ancient Near Eastern Prophets: A Comparative Study of the Earliest Stages of the Isaiah Tradition and the Neo-Assyrian Prophecies, reviewed by Hallvard Hagelia

New Testament and Cognate Studies

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In the preview release of the latest Kindle software update (3.1), Amazon is beginning to allow Kindle edition readers to access the same page numbers that their print edition-reading counterparts can see:

Our customers have told us they want real page numbers that match the page numbers in print books so they can easily reference and cite passages, and read alongside others in a book club or class. We’ve already added real page numbers to tens of thousands of Kindle books, including the top 100 bestselling books in the Kindle Store that have matching print editions and thousands more of the most popular books. Page numbers will also be available on our free “Buy Once, Read Everywhere” Kindle apps in the coming months. If a Kindle book includes page numbers, press the Menu key in an open Kindle book to display page numbers ( [Amazon](//www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hp_navbox_top_kindlelg?nodeId=200529700" target="_blank">)).

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In their continuing effort to integrate Eastern and Western New Testament scholarship, the New Testament Scholarship Worldwide group on Facebook has added links to seven resources from and about Indian New Testament scholarship.

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Fields

• Elie Assis, Flashes of Fire: A Literary Analysis of the Song of Songs, reviewed by Francis Landy
• Chris Franke and Julia M. O’Brien, eds., Aesthetics of Violence in the Prophets, reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer
• A. R. George, Babylonian Literary Texts in the Schoyen Collection, reviewed by Alan Lenzi
• Harry A. Hoffner Jr., Letters from the Hittite Kingdom, reviewed by Ludek Vacín
• Reinhard G. Kratz and Hermann Spieckermann, eds., Divine Wrath and Divine Mercy in the World of Antiquity, reviewed by Michael S. Moore
• J. Gordon McConville and Stephen Williams, Joshua, reviewed by Ernst Axel Knauf
• Eckart Otto, Die Tora: Studien zum Pentateuch: Gesammelte Schriften, reviewed by Reinhard Achenbach
• Thomas Römer, Jean-Daniel Macchi, and Christophe Nihan, eds., Introduction à l’Ancien Testament, reviewed by John Engle
• Eugene Ulrich, ed., The Biblical Qumran Scrolls: Transcriptions and Textual Variants, reviewed by Aaron D. Rubin

Hermeneutics

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The latest issue of Themelios includes the following:

• D. A. Carson, “Editorial: Contrarian Reflections on Individualism”
• Carl Trueman, “Minority Report: Terrible Beauty, Beauty, and the Plain Terrible”
• Daniel Estes, “Fiction and Truth in the Old Testament Wisdom Literature”
• Daniel Brendsel, “Plots, Themes, and Responsibilities: The Search for a Center of Biblical Theology Reexamined”
• Stephen Garrett, “The Dazzling Darkness of God’s Triune Love: Introducing Evangelicals to the Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar”
• Philip Graham Ryken, “Pastoral Pensées A World Servant in Christian Liberal Arts Education”

As an incentive to download and install NookStudy, Barnes and Noble is offering registered users the opportunity to download up to twelve NookBook classics for free. Among these texts are Dante’s Inferno and Plato’s Republic.

Through its pre-publication program, Logos Bible Software is now offering the fourteen-volume Eerdmans Biblical Resources Series. Series titles include:

• Adele Berlin, The Dynamics of Biblical Parallelism
• Richard Burridge, What Are the Gospels
• John Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination
• John Collins, Between Athens and Jerusalem
• Frank Moore Cross, Studies in Ancient Yahwistic Poetry
• Joseph Fitzmyer, To Advance the Gospel
• Hermann Gunkel, Creation and Chaos in the Primeval Era and the Eschaton
• Richard Hays, The Faith of Jesus Christ
• Colin Hemer, The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia
• Anthony Saldarini, Pharisees, Scribes, and Sadducees in Palestinian Society
• Anthony Saldarini, The Semitic Background of the New Testament (vols. 1–2)
• Mark Smith, The Early History of God
• Samuel Terrien, Till the Heart Sings

At this year’s Friday meeting of the Institute for Biblical Research, the folks from InterVarsity Press kindly distributed to Institute members copies of Anthony Thisleton’s The Living Paul: An Introduction to the Apostle’s Life and Thought. Then, in the book room at SBL, the folks from Wipf and Stock and Zondervan graciously passed along desk copies for a couple of next semester’s textbooks: Michael Bird’s The Saving Righteousness of God: Studies on Paul, Justification, and the New Perspective and Marvin Pate’s edited Four Views on the Book of Revelation(with contributions by Kenneth Gentry, Sam Hamstra, Marvin Pate, and Robert Thomas). Finally, before the end of SBL, two additional, biblical texts had made their way into the suitcase: The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition and Biblia Sacra Hebraica et Graeca.

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Zondervan has recently added the following volumes to the Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament series:

• Grant Osborne, Matthew;
• Thomas Schreiner, Galatians; and
• Chilton Arnold, Ephesians.

According to Zondervan,

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[caption id=“attachment_6600” align=“alignright” width=“80” caption=“Peter Enns, Douglas Green, and Michael Kelly”] [/caption]Now in the rolling queue on the Westminster Bookstore’s home page is a freshly published festschrift for the late Al Groves. I never had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Groves, but I am certainly and often thankful for his work and the personal blessing that he was in the lives of so many others.

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Michael Bird announces a new, semiannual journal dedicated to Pauline studies and that is chiefly edited by himself in association with Nijay Gupta.

Emanuel Tov has posted a number of his publications online in openly-accessible, PDF format. Hearty thanks to Dr. Tov for this contribution to digital scholarship in biblical studies.

HT: Tommy Wasserman.

In working on the phrase εἰς ἐπίγνωσιν τοῦ μυστηρίου τοῦ θεοῦ, Χριστοῦ in Col 2:2 ( NA27 punctuation), I stumbled upon J. B. Lightfoot’s commentary on Colossians in full view, PDF format on Google Books. According to Lightfoot ( 239),

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Over at Academia.edu, Charles Jones, Head Librarian at New York University, has requested suggestions for additions to a new list of “Ancient World Open Bibliographies.” Of course, as it develops, the bibliography should certainly list New Testament Gateway. Maintainers of ancient world bibliographic resources can note additions on Academia.edu or the bibliography page itself.

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The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Fields

• Luísa Maria Varela Almendra, Um debate sobre o conhecimento de Deus: Composição e interpretação de Jb 32–37, reviewed by Gilbert Lozano
• G. P. F. Broekman, R. J. Demaree, and O. E. Kaper, eds., The Libyan Period in Egypt: Historical and Cultural Studies into the 21st–24th Dynasties: Proceedings of a Conference at Leiden University, 25–27 October 2007, reviewed by Aren M. Maeir
• Ruth A. Clements and Daniel R. Schwartz, eds., Text, Thought, and Practice in Qumran and Early Christianity: Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, Jointly Sponsored by the Hebrew University Center for the Study of Christianity, 11–13 January, 2004, reviewed by John Kampen
• Thomas B. Dozeman, Exodus, reviewed by Frank H. Polak
• Magnar Kartveit, The Origin of the Samaritans, reviewed by Thomas Hieke
• Ernst Axel Knauf, Josua: Zürcher Bibelkommentare AT(Band 6), reviewed by Marvin A. Sweeney
• Wolfgang Oswald, Staatstheorie im Alten Israel: Der politische Diskurs im Pentateuch und in den Geschichtsbüchern des Alten Testaments, reviewed by Klaus-Peter Adam
• Nicholas Postgate, The Land of Assur and the Yoke of Assur: Studies on Assyria 1971–2005, reviewed by Carly Crouch
• Andrzej S. Turkanik, Of Kings and Reigns: A Study of Translation Technique in the Gamma/Gamma Section of 3 Reigns (1 Kings), reviewed by Johann Cook

Biblical Theology and Cognate Fields

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The latest issue of New Testament Studies includes:

• Michael Peppard, “The Eagle and the Dove: Roman Imperial Sonship and the Baptism of Jesus (Mark 1.9–11),” 431–51
• Eve-Marie Becker, “Die markinischen Summarien—ein literarischer und theologischer Schlüssel zu Mark 1–6,” 452–74
• Lee A. Johnson and Robert C. Tannehill, “Lilies Do Not Spin: A Challenge to Female Social Norms,” 475–90
• Friedrich Gustav Lang, “Abraham geschworen – uns gegeben. Syntax und Sinn im Benediktus (Lukas 1.68–79),” 491–512
• Jane Heath, “‘Some were saying, “He is good”’ (John 7.12b): ‘Good’ Christology in John’s Gospel?,” 513–35
• David Briones, “Mutual Brokers of Grace: A Study in 2 Corinthians 1.3–11,” 536–56
• Joshua W. Jipp, “The Son’s Entrance into the Heavenly World: The Soteriological Necessity of the Scriptural Catena in Hebrews 1.5–14,” 557–75
• Alexander Weiss, “Keine Quästoren in Korinth: Zu Goodrichs (und Theißens) These über das Amt des Erastos (Röm 16.23),” 576–81

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

New Testament and Cognate Fields

• Craig L. Blomberg, The Historical Reliability of the Gospels, reviewed by Robert H. Gundry
• Craig S. Keener, The Historical Jesus of the Gospels, reviewed by Craig L. Blomberg
• Lloyd Kim, Polemic in the Book of Hebrews: Anti-Judaism, Anti-Semitism, Supersessionism?, reviewed by Lars Kierspel
• Maarten J. J. Menken and Steve Moyise, eds., The Minor Prophets in the New Testament, reviewed by Matthew Mitchell
• Romano Penna, Paolo e la Chiesa di Roma, reviewed by Sean Martin

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Fields

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The fall issue of the Journal of Biblical Literature includes:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Fields

• Jonathan Burnside, “Flight of the Fugitives: Rethinking the Relationship between Biblical Law (Exodus 21:12–14) and the Davidic Succession Narrative (1 Kings 1-2),” 418–31
• Michael Carasik, “Why Did Hannah Ask for ‘Seed of Men’?,” 433–36 Steven L. McKenzie, “Elaborated Evidence for the Priority of 1 Samuel 26,” 437–44
• Richard Whitekettle, “When More Leads to Less: Overstatement, Incrementum, and the Question in Job 4:17a,” 445–48
• Brian J. Alderman and Brent A. Strawn, “A Note on Peshitta Job 28:23,” 449–56
• Shalom E. Holtz, “A Comparative Note on the Demand for Witnesses in Isaiah 43:9,” 457–61
• Benjamin Edidin Scolnic, “Mattathias and the Jewish Man of Modein,” 463–83
• Randall D. Chesnutt, " Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 2069 and the Compositional History of 1 Enoch," 485–505

New Testament and Cognate Fields

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The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Fields

• Walter Brueggemann, An Unsettling God: The Heart of the Hebrew Bible, reviewed by Eric A. Seibert
• Erasmus Gaß, Die Moabiter: Geschichte und Kultur eines ostjordanischen Volkes im 1. Jahrtausend v. Chr., reviewed by Sven Petry
• Sarah Lebhar Hall, Conquering Character: The Characterization of Joshua in Joshua 1-11, reviewed by Anton Cuffari
• Michaela Hallermayer, Text und Überlieferung des Buches Tobit, reviewed by Bradley Gregory

New Testament and Cognate Fields

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A while back, when I finally decided to preorder the Göttingen Septuagint from Logos before the initial, pre-publication special ended, and when I did so, I was quite prepared to wait several years before this resource actually went through and came out of development. Yet, earlier today, I happened to stumble across this on the Logos website: So, rather than a couple years, the Logos edition of the Göttingen Septuagint is apparently just over a couple months away (!).

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The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Biblical Theology and Cognate Fields

• Hector Avalos, Sarah Melcher, and Jeremy Schipper, eds., This Abled Body: Rethinking Disabilities in Biblical Studies, reviewed by William R. G. Loader
• Roland Boer, Political Myth: On the Use and Abuse of Biblical Themes, reviewed by Gilbert Lozano
• Joel S. Kaminsky, Yet I Loved Jacob: Reclaiming the Biblical Concept of Election, reviewed by Hallvard Hagelia
• Robin Routledge, Old Testament Theology: A Thematic Approach, reviewed by Don Collett

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Fields

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