Bibliography

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

• Robert B. Coote and Keith W. Whitelam, The Emergence of Early Israel in Historical Perspective, reviewed by Aren M. Maeir
• Tamara Cohn Eskenazi and Tikva Frymer-Kensky, Ruth, reviewed by Peter H. W. Lau
• John Kampen, Wisdom Literature, reviewed by Devorah Dimant
• Cotton Mather; ed. Reiner Smolinski, Genesis (Biblia Americana 1), reviewed by Mark Elliott

New Testament and Cognate Studies

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Courtesy of Baylor University Press and the Stone-Campbell Journal, Richard Bauckham’s Living with Other Creatures: Green Exegesis and Theology (2011). According to the publisher’s description:

The Bible and Christian tradition have, at best, offered an ambiguous word in response to Earth’s environmental difficulties. At worst, a complex, often one-sided history of interpretation has left the Bible’s voice silent. Aiming to bridge these gaps, Richard Bauckham mines scripture and theology, discovering a firm command for Christians to care for all of God’s creation and then discusses the generations of theologians who have sought to live out this biblical mandate. Going beyond Old Testament human dominion, Living with Other Creatures consults scripture in its entirety and includes Jesus’ perspectives on creation, novel approaches to reading the gospels, and some of the most well-known “ecologists” throughout Christian history. The result is an innovative and enriching treatise that reminds readers of Gods whole creation—and humanity’s place within it.

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In recognition of the release of Colin Kruse’s Romans volume in the Pillar New Testament Commentary, the Westminster Bookstore is running several sales, including:

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The latest issue of Currents in Biblical Research includes:

• J. Kenneth Kuntz, “Continuing the Engagement: Psalms Research Since the Early 1990s”
• Joel R. White, “Recent Challenges to the communis opinio on 1 Corinthians 15.29”
• Dan Batovici, “The Second-Century Reception of John: A Survey of Methodologies”
• Benjamin Edsall, " Kerygma, Catechesis and Other Things We Used to Find: Twentieth-Century Research on Early Christian Teaching since Alfred"
• Simon Lasair, “Current Trends in Targum Research”

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

• Brian Britt, Biblical Curses and the Displacement of Tradition, reviewed by Brian Doak
• David M. Carr, The Formation of the Hebrew Bible: A New Reconstruction, reviewed by Christoph Berner
• Marjo Korpel and Johannes de Moor, The Silent God, reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer
• Janet Smith, Dust or Dew: Immortality in the Ancient Near East and in Psalm 49, reviewed by Philippus J. Botha

New Testament and Cognate Studies

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The Journal of Biblical Literature 131, no. 2 includes several noteworthy articles.

Thanks to the folks at Zondervan, Michael Horton’s For Calvinism and Roger Olson’s Against Calvinism came in yesterday’s mail, as the volumes are doing for a number of others too. According to the publisher,

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A new collection of online Loeb Classical Library volumes is now available (HT: Charles Jones).

This new collection provides locally-hosted PDFs that can be downloaded without completing a CAPTCHA field.

The page also provides a link to a single ZIP file (3.2 GB) that contains all the individual LCL volume PDFs available on the page.

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In addition to the sale at Christian Book Distributors on volumes 1 and 2 of the Princeton Dead Sea Scrolls series that Tod Bolen previously noted, the following volumes are also currently selling there at sharply reduced prices:

• Volume 3: Damascus Document Fragments, Some Works of the Torah, Related Documents, $29.99 (85% off) + free shipping
• Volume 4a: Pseudepigraphic and Non-Masoretic Psalms and Prayers, $22.99 (80% off)

From Nijay Gupta,

The time is soon-coming for the release of the long-anticipated Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: More Noncanonical Scriptures edited by Bauckham, Davila, and Panayotov (Eerdmans, Nov 2012). . . .

At more than 800 pages (in 2 volumes), it will certainly be substantive. The attempt was made by the editors to collect non-canonical texts that pre-date the rise of Islam. (underlining for original italics)

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Starting this year, the International Journal of the Platonic Tradition has become fully and openly accessible online (HT: Charles Jones).

At the annual Society of Biblical Literature meeting in San Francisco, I and a number of other folks picked up John Schwandt’s audio version of the United Bible Societies’ Greek New Testament (4th ed.; affiliate disclosure).

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Through their pre-publication program, Logos Bible Software is now offering English translations of Thomas Aquinas’s commentaries on Isaiah, Jeremiah, and the Sentences of Peter Lombard. Aquinas’s Summa Theologica and Summa Contra Gentiles have been available in English for some time, but once enough pre-publication orders have accumulated, Logos’s texts of these three commentaries will be the first time they have been available in English.

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Logos Bible Software’s March Madness final between D. A. Carson and N. T. Wright was certainly an ironic pairing, but the results are in, and Wright’s victory leaves users with a 75% discount on select texts, including New Testament and the People of God and Jesus and the Victory of God. A pair of runner-up Carson’s texts are also available at a 60% discount. For more information, please see here.

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The latest issue of the Bulletin for Biblical Research includes:

• Edward Glenny, “The Septuagint and Apostolic Hermeneutics: Amos 9 and Acts 15”
• Joel Willitts, “Matthew and Psalms of Solomon’s Messianism: A Comparative Study in First-Century Messianology”
• Preston Massey, “Disagreement in the Greco-Roman Literary Tradition and the Implications for Gospel Research”
• Nijay Gupta, “What ‘Mercies of God’?: Oiktirmos in Romans 12:1 against Its Septuagintal Background”
• Aaron Sherwood, “Paul’s Imprisonment as the Glory of the Ethnē: A Discourse Analysis of Ephesians 3:1–13”

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Fifteen print volumes of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s works are now available as a single set via Logos Bible Software’s pre-publication program. According to the product page:

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, one of the most influential Christian martyrs in history, bequeathed to humanity a legacy of theological creativity and spirituality that continues to inspire people from a variety of backgrounds. Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works (15 vols.) offers a fresh, critical translation of Bonhoeffer’s writings, with extensive introductions, annotations, and interpretation.

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The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

• Anthony Heacock, Jonathan Loved David: Manly Love in the Bible and the Hermeneutics of Sex, reviewed by John Barclay Burns
• Maynard Paul Maidman, Nuzi Texts and Their Uses as Historical Evidence, reviewed by Ronan Head
• Thomas W. Mann, The Book of the Former Prophets, reviewed by Trent C. Butler
• David Miano, Shadow on the Steps: Time Measurement in Ancient Israel, reviewed by Spencer L. Allen
• Anathea E. Portier-Young, Apocalypse against Empire: Theologies of Resistance in Early Judaism, reviewed by Benjamin E. Reynolds and Joshua Schwartz

New Testament and Cognate Studies

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The latest issue of the Journal of Biblical Literature includes:

• Carol Newsom, “Models of the Moral Self: Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Judaism”
• Jonathann Vroom, “Recasting Mišpātîm: Legal Innovation in Leviticus 24:10-23”
• Suzanne Boorer, “The Place of Numbers 13–14 and Numbers 20:2–12 in the Priestly Narrative (Pg)”
• Israel Finkelstein, “The Historical Reality behind the Genealogical Lists in 1 Chronicles”
• Francis Landy, “I and Eye in Isaiah, or Gazing at the Invisible”
• Jacob Wright and Michael Chan, “King and Eunuch: Isaiah 56:1-8 in Light of Honorific Royal Burial Practices”
• Alec Lucas, “Reorienting the Structural Paradigm and Social Significance of Romans 1:18–32”
• David Downs, “Faith(fulness) in Christ Jesus in 2 Timothy 3:15”
• Jason Whitlark, " ‘Here We Do Not Have a City That Remains’: A Figured Critique of Roman Imperial Propaganda in Hebrews 13:14"
• Matthias Henze, “4 Ezra and 2 Baruch: Literary Composition and Oral Performance in First-Century Apocalyptic Literature”

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

• Peter Altmann, Festive Meals in Ancient Israel: Deuteronomy’s Identity Politics in Their Ancient Near Eastern Context, reviewed by Stephen A. Reed
• Martin Hallaschka, Haggai und Sacharja 1–8: Eine redaktionsgeschichtliche Untersuchung, reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer
• Tod Linafelt, Claudia V. Camp, and Timothy Beal, eds., The Fate of King David: The Past and Present of a Biblical Icon, reviewed by Ilse Muellner

New Testament and Cognate Studies

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Thanks to wonderful readers and the excellent folks at the Westminster Bookstore, the following have arrived at the door recently:

• David Aune, Apocalypticism, Prophecy, and Magic in Early Christianity
• Greg Beale, A New Testament Biblical Theology: The Unfolding of the Old Testament in the New
• Richard Bauckham, Jesus and the God of Israel: God Crucified and Other Studies on the New Testament’s Christology of Divine Identity
• Harvie Conn, ed., Inerrancy and Hermeneutic
• Gordon Fee, Paul, the Spirit, and the People of God
• Gordon Fee, Pauline Christology: An Exegetical-theological Study
• Richard Hays, The Moral Vision of the New Testament: A Contemporary Introduction to New Testament Ethics
• Anthony Thiselton, The Hermeneutics of Doctrine
• Kevin Vanhoozer, The Drama of Doctrine: A Canonical-linguistic Approach to Christian Theology

The latest issue of Currents in Biblical Research includes:

• Charles Trimm, “Recent Research on Warfare in the Old Testament”
• Judy Diehl, “Empire and Epistles: Anti-Roman Rhetoric in the New Testament Epistles”
• Hellen Mardaga, " Hapax Legomena: A Neglected Field in Biblical Studies"
• Travis B. Williams, “Suffering from a Critical Oversight: The Persecutions of 1 Peter within Modern Scholarship”
• David M. Miller, “Ethnicity Comes of Age: An Overview of Twentieth-Century Terms for Ioudaios”

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

• John Goldingay, Israel’s Life (Old Testament Theology, vol. 3), reviewed by Ovidiu Creanga
• Michaėl N. van der Meer, Percy van Keulen, Wido van Peursen, Bas Ter Haar Romeny, eds., Isaiah in Context: Studies in Honour of Arie van der Kooij on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday, reviewed by Mayer Gruber

New Testament and Cognate Studies

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Through the end of the day tomorrow, Kindle with Special Offers users or Kindle users who have turned on the Special Offers feature are able to take advantage of a promotion that Amazon is running to “Buy one of 50 biography and history titles for $1.” A list of eligible titles is available here. Among the eligible titles of particular interest here are:

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The latest issue of New Testament Studies includes:

• Armand Puig i Tàrrech, “The Glory on the Mountain: The Episode of the Transfiguration of Jesus”
• Richard Last, “Communities That Write: Christ-Groups, Associations, and Gospel Communities”
• Candida R. Moss and Joel S. Baden, “1 Thessalonians 4.13–18 in Rabbinic Perspective”
• Margaret M. Mitchell, “Peter’s ‘Hypocrisy’ and Paul’s: Two ‘Hypocrites’ at the Foundation of Earliest Christianity?”
• Rikard Roitto, “Practices of Confession, Intercession, and Forgiveness in 1 John 1.9; 5.16”
• Michael J. Kruger, “The Date and Content of P. Antinoopolis 12 (0232)”

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Fields

• Katharine Dell, ed., Ethical and Unethical in the Old Testament: God and Humans in Dialogue, reviewed by Walter Brueggemann
• Georg Fischer, Der Prophet wie Mose: Studien zum Jeremiabuch, reviewed by Bob Becking
• Thomas Richard Kämmerer, ed., Studien zu Ritual und Sozialgeschichte im Alten Orient/Studies on Rituals and Society in the Ancient Near East: Tartuer Symposien 1998–2004, reviewed by Gerhard Karner
• Jennifer L. Koosed, Gleaning Ruth: A Biblical Heroine and Her Afterlives, reviewed by Helen Leneman

New Testament and Cognate Fields

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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

New Testament and Cognate Studies

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Google Books has available the full text of Sanday and Headlam’s commentary on Romans in the International Critical Commentary (5th ed.; 1899).

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

New Testament and Cognate Studies

• Craig L. Blomberg, with Jennifer Foutz Markley, A Handbook of New Testament Exegesis, reviewed by Jan G. van der Watt
• Gregg Gardner and Kevin L. Osterloh, eds., Antiquity in Antiquity: Jewish and Christian Pasts in the Greco-Roman World, reviewed by Douglas Estes
• Kevin B. McCruden, Solidarity Perfected: Beneficent Christology in the Epistle to the Hebrews, reviewed by Craig R. Koester
• Gert J. Steyn and Dirk J. Human, eds., Psalms and Hebrews: Studies in Reception, reviewed by Scott D. Mackie

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

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The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Fields

• Michael Avioz, “I Sat Alone”: Jeremiah among the Prophets, reviewed by Jerry Hwang
• Anthony J. Frendo, Pre-exilic Israel, the Hebrew Bible, and Archaeology: Integrating Text and Artefact, reviewed by Ralph K. Hawkins
• Giovanni Garbini, Introduzione all’ epigrafia semitica, reviewed by André Lemaire
• Manfred Görg, Mythos und Mythologie: Studien zur Religionsgeschichte und Theologie, reviewed by Mark W. Hamilton
• Paul M. Joyce and Andrew Mein, eds., After Ezekiel: Essays on the Reception of a Difficult Prophet, reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer
• Megan Bishop Moore and Brad E. Kelle, Biblical History and Israel’s Past: The Changing Study of the Bible and History, reviewed by Bob Becking
• Marti J. Steussy, Samuel and His God, reviewed by Johannes Klein

New Testament and Cognate Fields

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The latest issue of the Biblical Theology Bulletin includes:

• David M. Bossman, “Presenting the Issue: Canonical Undercurrents”
• Joel Edmund Anderson, “Yhwh’s Surprising Covenant Hesed in Jonah”
• Carey Walsh, “Theological Trace in Qoheleth”
• Victor H. Matthews, “Making Your Point: The Use of Gestures in Ancient Israel”
• Tim Hegedus, “Midrash and Papias of Hierapolis”

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