Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (January 31, 2011)

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies J. Andrew Dearman, The Book of Hosea, reviewed by Heinz-Dieter Neef KĂĄroly DĂĄniel Dobos and MiklĂłs Köszeghy, eds., With Wisdom as a Robe: Qumran and Other Jewish Studies in Honour of Ida Fröhlich, reviewed by Korinna Zamfir Bruce Louden, Homer’s Odyssey and the Near East, reviewed by Charles L. Echols Jason Radine, The Book of Amos in Emergent Judah, reviewed by Daniel C. Timmer Shemaryahu Talmon, Text and Canon of the Hebrew Bible, reviewed by August H. Konkel William A. Tooman and Michael A. Lyons, eds., Transforming Visions: Transformations of Text, Tradition, and Theology in Ezekiel, reviewed by William R. Osborne New Testament and Cognate Studies ...

January 31, 2012 Â· 1 min Â· J. David Stark

Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 54, no. 4

[caption id="" align=“alignright” width=“125” caption=“Image via Wikipedia”] [/caption] The latest issue of the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society arrived in yesterday’s mail and includes the following: Al Wolters, “An Early Parallel of Î±áœÎžÎ”ÎœÏ„Î”áż–Îœ in 1 Tim 2:12” Michael Harbin, “Jubilee and Social Justice” Gary Smith, “Isaiah 40–55: Which Audience Was Addressed?” Don Garlington, " ‘Salt of the Earth’ in Covenantal Perspective" Gavin Ortlund, “Resurrected as Messiah: The Risen Christ as Prophet, Priest, and King” Eric Johnson, “Rewording the Justification/Sanctification Relation with Some Help from Speech Act Theory” Jason Sexton, “The State of the Evangelical Trinitarian Resurgence” Bruce Davidson, “Glorious Damnation: Hell as an Essential Element in the Theology of Jonathan Edwards” ...

January 18, 2012 Â· 1 min Â· J. David Stark

Sample Keener's Miracles

[caption id=“attachment_9094” align=“alignright” width=“80” caption=“Craig Keener”] [/caption] Ever helpful, the folks at the Westminster Bookstore have made available a PDF sample from Craig Keener’s Miracles: The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts(2 vols.; Baker, 2011) on the book’s product page. The sample contains the work’s table of contents, introduction, and first chapter. ...

January 12, 2012 Â· 1 min Â· J. David Stark

Hahn, Bibliothek der Symbole und Glaubensregeln der Apostolisch-katholischen Kirche

[caption id="" align=“alignright” width=“75” caption=“Image via Wikipedia”] [/caption] Google Books has available a full-text PDF of August Hahn’s Bibliothek der Symbole und Glaubensregeln der Apostolisch-katholischen Kirche(Breslau: Grass und Barth, 1842).

January 11, 2012 Â· 1 min Â· J. David Stark

A Free Book Each Month in 2012

The folks at Logos Bible Software have started a monthly free book giveaway for 2012. This month’s title is volume 6 from their collection of the Works of John Owen. ...

January 11, 2012 Â· 1 min Â· J. David Stark

Kristeva's Website

[caption id="" align=“alignright” width=“75” caption=“Julia Kristeva (image via Wikipedia)”] [/caption] With a hat tips to Carolyn Sharp’s Wrestling with the Word, 32n20, and Phillip Camp’s review of the book in the most recent RBL newsletter, Julia Kristeva has a website on which she has made available a number of resources, mostly in French and English. ...

January 3, 2012 Â· 1 min Â· J. David Stark

Review of Biblical Literature (December 31, 2011)

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Fields Daniel Bodi, The Demise of the Warlord: A New Look at the David Story, reviewed by Jeremy Hutton Hemchand Gossai, Power and Marginality in the Abraham Narrative, reviewed by Thomas Hieke AndrĂ© Lemaire, ed., Congress Volume: Ljubljana 2007, reviewed by Siegfried Kreuzer Herbert Migsch, Studien zum Jeremiabuch und andere BeitrĂ€ge zum Alten Testament, reviewed by Hannes Bezzel Carolyn J. Sharp, Wrestling the Word: The Hebrew Scriptures and the Christian Believer, reviewed by Phillip G. Camp Matthew A. Thomas, These Are the Generations: Identity, Covenant, and the ’toledot’ Formula, reviewed by Mark McEntire Eugene Ulrich and Peter W. Flint, Qumran Cave 1.II: The Isaiah Scrolls, reviewed by Eibert Tigchelaar New Testament and Cognate Fields ...

January 3, 2012 Â· 1 min Â· J. David Stark

Bulletin for Biblical Research 21.4

The latest issue of the Bulletin for Biblical Research includes: H. Daniel Zacharias, “Old Greek Daniel 7:13–14 and Matthew’s Son of Man” Robert S. Snow, “Let the Reader Understand: Mark’s Use of Jeremiah 7 in Mark 13:14” Steven M. Bryan, “Consumed by Zeal: John’s Use of Psalm 69:9 and the Action in the Temple” Brian J. Tabb, “Johannine Fulfillment of Scripture: Continuity and Escalation” Timothy Wiarda, “The Portrayal of Peter and Atonement Theology in the Gospel of John” Among the books reviewed in this issue also is Doug Green’s “I Undertook Great Works”: The Ideology of Domestic Achievements in West Semitic Royal Inscriptions (Mohr Siebeck, 2010). Doug is an excellent fellow, and I very much appreciate the opportunity, albeit limited, to have had him as an instructor a few years ago. ...

December 22, 2011 Â· 1 min Â· J. David Stark

Journal of Biblical Literature 130.4

The latest issue of the Journal of Biblical Literature includes: Esther J. Hamori, “Echoes of Gilgamesh in the Jacob Story” Joel S. Baden and Candida R. Moss, “The Origin and Interpretation of áčŁÄra’at in Leviticus 13–14” Scott C. Jones, “Lions, Serpents, and Lion-Serpents in Job 28:8 and Beyond” Noam Mizrahi, “The History and Linguistic Background of Two Hebrew Titles for the High Priest” Jeramy Townsley, “Paul, the Goddess Religions, and Queer Sects: Romans 1:23–28” Jeffrey R. Asher, “An Unworthy Foe: Heroic “EΞη, Trickery, and an Insult in Ephesians 6:11” Joseph A. Marchal, “The Usefulness of an Onesimus: The Sexual Use of Slaves and Paul’s Letter to Philemon” Eyal Regev, “Were the Early Christians Sectarians?” Stephen J. Patterson, “Apocalypticism or Prophecy and the Problem of Polyvalence: Lessons from the Gospel of Thomas”

December 22, 2011 Â· 1 min Â· J. David Stark

Logos Resources

To complement the earlier pre-publication release of its Hebrew Bible counterpart, Logos Bible Software now has the first six volumes of the Baylor Handbook on the Greek New Testament Series available for order through its pre-publication program. Also noteworthy are the 12 Days of Logos promotions on Calvin’s Commentaries and the Pillar New Testament Commentary. ...

December 14, 2011 Â· 1 min Â· J. David Stark

Osborne's Hermeneutical Spiral (12 Days of Logos)

[caption id="" align=“alignright” width=“80” caption=“Grant Osborne”] [/caption] Today, the second edition of Grant Osborne’s Hermeneutical Spiral for Logos Bible Software has come on sale. According to Osborne, hermeneutics is a spiral from text to context–a movement between the horizon of the text and the horizon of the reader that spirals nearer and nearer toward the intended meaning of the text and its significance for today. ...

December 8, 2011 Â· 1 min Â· J. David Stark

BHHB on Pre-pub at Logos

The first four volumes of the Baylor Handbook on the Hebrew Bible Series are now available for order from Logos Bible Software via their pre-publication program. In general, Rather than devote space to the type of theological and exegetical comments found in most commentaries, this series instead focuses on the Hebrew text and its related issues, syntactic and otherwise. The volumes in the series serve as prequels to commentary proper, providing guides to understanding the linguistic characteristics of the texts from which the messages of the texts may then be derived. ...

December 7, 2011 Â· 1 min Â· J. David Stark

Brookins, "Dispute with Stoicism"

Tim Brookins has the latest article in the Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism, “Dispute with Stoicism in the Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus.” According to Brookins, It is not my aim to continue discussion regarding the criterion for the rich man’s judgment. But I propose that there is more to be said about the meaning of the parable in light of a Greco-Roman milieu. . . . I shall take up [Ronald] Hock’s wider net and cast it once again in the direction of Hellenistic philosophy. It will be argued that, while the parable may share a Cynic viewpoint on the issue of wealth, it also conveys pronounced resistance to certain Stoic ideas on this issue. As a supporting argument it will further be suggested that the parable reflects elements of rhetorical ‘declamation’ (declamatio), which was in certain circles closely associated with Stoic philosophy. With these substantive and formal features taken together, we shall see that the parable means to interact with Stoicism, though in a way that is subversive to the Stoic ideas evoked (35–36; underlining for original italics). ...

December 6, 2011 Â· 1 min Â· J. David Stark

Themelios 36.3

The latest issue of Themelios includes the following articles: Rodney J. Decker, “An Evaluation of the 2011 Edition of the New International Version” Andrew Moody, “That All May Honour the Son: Holding Out For A Deeper Christocentrism” Jonathan Gibson, “Jonathan Edwards: A Missionary?” Melvin Tinker, “Friends: The One With Jesus, Martha, And Mary: An Answer to Kierkegaard”

November 15, 2011 Â· 1 min Â· J. David Stark

Currents in Biblical Research 10.1

The latest issue of Currents in Biblical Research includes: Judy Diehl, “Anti-Imperial Rhetoric in the New Testament,” 9–52 John W. Olley, “Trajectories of Ezekiel (Part 2): Beyond the Book,” 53–80 B. J. Oropeza, “The Warning Passages in Hebrews: Revised Theologies and New Methods of Interpretation,” 81–100 Robert R. Cargill, “The State of the Archaeological Debate at Qumran,” 101–18 Eileen M. Schuller, “Recent Scholarship on the Hodayot 1993–2010,” 119–62

November 15, 2011 Â· 1 min Â· J. David Stark

Review of Biblical Literature (November 12, 2011)

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Fields Joseph Blenkinsopp, Creation, Un-creation, Re-creation: A Discursive Commentary on Genesis 1–11, reviewed by John E. Anderson Yoram Cohen, Amir Gilan, and Jared L. Miller, eds., Pax Hethitica: Studies on the Hittites and Their Neighbours in Honour of Itamar Singer, reviewed by Paul Sanders Ronald Hendel, ed., Reading Genesis: Ten Methods, reviewed by Frank H. Polak Amanda H. Podany, Brotherhood of Kings: How International Relations Shaped the Ancient Near East, reviewed by Bertrand Lafont Hayim Tawil, An Akkadian Lexical Companion for Biblical Hebrew: Etymological-Semantic and Idiomatic Equivalents with Supplement on Biblical Aramaic, reviewed by Aaron D. Rubin New Testament and Cognate Fields ...

November 12, 2011 Â· 1 min Â· J. David Stark

Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (October 28, 2011)

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Fields William P. Brown, Psalms, reviewed by Harry P. Nasuti A. R. Pete Diamond and Louis Stulman, eds., Jeremiah (Dis)Placed: New Directions in Writing/Reading Jeremiah, reviewed by Michael Avioz Rolf A. Jacobson, ed., Soundings in the Theology of Psalms: Perspectives and Methods in Contemporary Scholarship, reviewed by Jeffery M. Leonard J. Randall Short, The Surprising Election and Confirmation of King David, reviewed by David G. Firth New Testament and Cognate Fields ...

October 29, 2011 Â· 1 min Â· J. David Stark

Flint, Duhaime, and Baek, eds., Celebrating the Dead Sea Scrolls

[caption id="" align=“alignright” width=“85” caption=“Peter Flint, John Duhaime, and Kyung Baek”] [/caption] Newly available from the Society of Biblical Literature is Celebrating the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Canadian Collection, edited by Peter Flint, John Duhaime, and Kyung Baek: This volume celebrates the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, their contents, the community that wrote and preserved them, and new scientific issues that arise from Scrolls studies. The essays, in four sections, explore the origins and text of scripture, the interpretation of scripture in Second Temple Judaism, the identity and practices of the movement associated with Qumran and the Scrolls, and the extensive contributions of Canadian projects and scholarship. ...

October 25, 2011 Â· 1 min Â· J. David Stark

Review of Biblical Literature (October 22, 2011)

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies Adina Moshavi, Word Order in the Biblical Hebrew Finite Clause, reviewed by Hubert James Keener Louis Stulman and Hyun Chul Paul Kim, You Are My People: An Introduction to Prophetic Literature, reviewed by Steed Vernyl Davidson Contextual Studies ...

October 22, 2011 Â· 1 min Â· J. David Stark

Bulletin for Biblical Research 21.3

The latest issue of the Bulletin for Biblical Research arrived in yesterday’s mail and includes: Andrew Malone, “Distinguishing the Angel of the Lord” Richard Hess, “The Seventy Sevens of Daniel 9: A Timetable for the Future?” Craig Keener, " Otho: A Targeted Comparison of Suetonius’s Biography and Tacitus’s History, with Implications for the Gospels’ Historical Reliability" Jason Hood, “The Temple and the Thorn: 2 Corinthians 12 and Paul’s Heavenly Ecclesiology” Everett Ferguson, “Angels of the Churches in Revelation 1–3: Status Quaestionis and Another Proposal”

October 15, 2011 Â· 1 min Â· J. David Stark

Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (October 12, 2011)

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies Katharine Dell, ed., Ethical and Unethical in the Old Testament: God and Humans in Dialogue, reviewed by Walter C. Kaiser Jr. Bo Isaksson, ed., Circumstantial Qualifiers in Semitic: The Case of Arabic and Hebrew, reviewed by John Kaltner Robin A. Parry, Lamentations, reviewed by Timothy J. Stone Géza G. Xeravits and József Zsengellér, eds., Studies in the Book of Wisdom, reviewed by Erik Eynikel New Testament and Cognate Studies ...

October 13, 2011 Â· 1 min Â· J. David Stark

Journal of Theological Studies 62.2

The latest issue of the Journal of Theological Studies includes: Anselm C. Hagedorn, “When Did Zephaniah Become a Supporter of Josiah’s Reform?” Markus Bockmuehl, “The Son of David and his Mother” Brian J. Wright and Tim Ricchuiti, “From ‘God’ (ΘΕΟΣ) to ‘God’ (ΝΟ΄΀Ε): A New Discussion and Proposal Regarding John 1:1C and the Sahidic Coptic Version of the New Testament” James P. Ware, “Law, Christ, and Covenant: Paul’s Theology of the Law in Romans 3:19–20” Bradly S. Billings, “From House Church to Tenement Church: Domestic Space and the Development of Early Urban Christianity—The Example of Ephesus” Stephen J. Shoemaker, “Mary at the Cross, East and West: Maternal Compassion and Affective Piety in the Earliest Life of the Virgin and the High Middle Ages” T. L. Holtzen, “Sacramental Causality in Hooker’s Eucharistic Theology”

October 8, 2011 Â· 1 min Â· J. David Stark

Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (October 6, 2011)

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies John Gray, The Book of Job, reviewed by Norman Habel Robert J. V. Hiebert, “Translation Is Required”: The Septuagint in Retrospect and Prospect, reviewed by Karen Jobes Harald Knobloch, Die nachexilische Prophetentheorie des Jeremiabuches, reviewed by Christl M. Maier Hindy Najman, Past Renewals: Interpretative Authority, Renewed Revelation and the Quest for Perfection in Jewish Antiquity, reviewed by Marius Nel New Testament and Cognate Studies ...

October 7, 2011 Â· 1 min Â· J. David Stark

Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 54.3

The latest issue of the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society arrived in yesterday’s mail and includes the following: Josh Chatraw, “Disunity and Diversity: The Biblical Theology of Bart Ehrman” Paul Wegner, “How Many Virgin Births Are in the Bible? (Isaiah 7:14): A Prophetic Pattern Approach” Jason Parry, “Desolation of the Temple and Messianic Enthronement in Daniel 11:36–12:3” Abraham Kuruvilla, “The Naked Runaway and the Enrobed Reporter of Mark 14 and 16: What Is the Author Doing with What He Is Saying?” Mark Brighton, “The Sicarii in Acts: A New Perspective” Veryln Verbrugge, “The Grammatical Internal Evidence for ጜΧΟΜΕΝ in Romans 5:1” Jerry Hwang, “Turning the Tables on Idol Feasts: Paul’s Use of Exodus 32:6 in 1 Corinthians 10:7” Michael Allen and Scott Swain, “In Defense of Proof-Texting”

October 4, 2011 Â· 1 min Â· J. David Stark

Biblical Theology Bulletin 41.4

The latest issue of the Biblical Theology Bulletin includes: David M. Bossman, “Presenting the Issue: What Becomes a Memory?” Joel Edmund Anderson, “Jonah’s Peculiar Re-Creation” Ritva Williams, “BTB Readers’ Guide: Social Memory” Ernest van Eck, “Social Memory and Identity: Luke 19:12b—24 and 27” S. Brian Pounds, “Romans 4:1—8 as a Test Case for the New Perspective on Paul”

October 4, 2011 Â· 1 min Â· J. David Stark

RBL Newsletter (September 30, 2011)

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scripture and Cognate Fields Jacob Howland, Plato and the Talmud, reviewed by Alan Avery-Peck Jeremy M. Hutton, The Transjordanian Palimpsest: The Overwritten Texts of Personal Exile and Transformation in the Deuteronomistic History, reviewed by Walter Dietrich Thomas Kazen, Issues of Impurity in Early Judaism, reviewed by John W. Fadden Eric D. Reymond, New Idioms within Old: Poetry and Parallelism in the Non-Masoretic Poems of 11Q5 (=11QPsa), reviewed by John Engle and James A. Sanders New Testament and Cognate Fields ...

September 30, 2011 Â· 1 min Â· J. David Stark

RBL Newsletter (September 15, 2011)

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scripture and Cognate Fields David A. Bernat, Sign of the Covenant: Circumcision in the Priestly Tradition, reviewed by Ulrich Zimmermann Job Y. Jindo, Biblical Metaphor Reconsidered: A Cognitive Approach to Poetic Prophecy in Jeremiah 1–24, reviewed by Colin Toffelmire Yelena Kolyada, A Compendium of Musical Instruments and Instrumental Terminology in the Bible, reviewed by Helen Leneman T. M. Lemos, Marriage Gifts and Social Change in Ancient Palestine: 1200 BCE to 200 CE, reviewed by Marianne Blickenstaff Anwar Tjen, On Conditionals in the Greek Pentateuch: A Study of Translation Syntax, reviewed by Randall Gauthier New Testament and Cognate Fields ...

September 16, 2011 Â· 1 min Â· J. David Stark

Resources from Tyndale House

[caption id="" align=“alignright” width=“175” caption=“Image via Wikipedia”] [/caption] Tyndale House has done some wonderful work making very helpful resources available online, but today, I stumbled upon the following that I had forgotten or not noticed before: The Tyndale Bulletin is available in full-text from volume 1 forward, excepting the last three years’ issues. The Tyndale House library catalog will return search results that include works available online in full-text. The library’s periodicals section also contains a number of links to journals with full-text articles available online. ...

September 15, 2011 Â· 1 min Â· J. David Stark

RBL Newsletter (September 9, 2011)

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies A. Graeme Auld and Erik Eynikel, eds., For and against David: Story and History in the Books of Samuel, reviewed by Frank H. Polak Christa SchĂ€fer-Lichtenberger, ed., Die SamuelbĂŒcher und die Deuteronomisten, reviewed by Graeme Auld New Testament and Cognate Studies ...

September 10, 2011 Â· 1 min Â· J. David Stark

More from Snodgrass on "A Hermeneutic of Identity"

Apparently, the article that Brian Tucker recently mentioned is part of a series of articles appearing in Bibliotheca Sacra this year, which look like they are providing the written corollaries to Klyne Snodgrass’s earlier lecture series at Dallas Theological Seminary. ...

September 8, 2011 Â· 1 min Â· J. David Stark