Bibliography

[caption id=“attachment_8056” align=“alignright” width=“80” caption=“D. A. Carson and Douglas Moo, ed. Andrew Naselli”] [/caption] A while back, the kind folks at Zondervan forwarded a survey about their Textbook Plus website, and in return for some feedback there, D. A. Carson and Douglas Moo, Introducing the New Testament, edited by Andrew Naselli (2010), arrived in yesterday’s mail. The text is “a condensation of [the] longer and more detailed . . . An Introduction to the New Testament(D. A. Carson and Douglas J. Moo [2d ed.; Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2005]) ( 7). ...

[caption id="" align=“alignright” width=“80” caption=“Image via Wikipedia”] [/caption] The latest issue of New Testament Studies includes: John Moles, “Luke’s Preface: The Greek Decree, Classical Historiography and Christian Redefinitions” David Mealand, “Is there Stylometric Evidence for Q?” John Ashton, “The Johannine Son of Man: A New Proposal” Alan Bale, “The Ambiguous Oracle: Narrative Configuration in Acts” L. L. Welborn, “Paul and Pain: Paul’s Emotional Therapy in 2 Corinthians 1.1–2.13; 7.5–16 in the Context of Ancient Psychagogic Literature” Don Barker, “The Dating of New Testament Papyri” John Goodrich, “Erastus of Corinth (Romans 16.23): Responding to Recent Proposals on his Rank, Status, and Faith” Wally Cirafesi and Gerald Peterman, “Πίστις and Christ in Hippolytus’s De Christo et Antichristo: A Response to Michael F. Bird and Michael R. Whitenton” ...

[caption id="" align=“alignright” width=“90” caption=“Cover via Amazon”] [/caption] Today, Amazon has the Kindle edition of Eric Metaxas’s Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy on sale for $1.99. ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: New Testament and Cognate Fields David Brakke, The Gnostics: Myth, Ritual, and Diversity in Early Christianity, reviewed by James F. McGrath Mark Andrew Brighton, The Sicarii in Josephus’s Judean War: Rhetorical Analysis and Historical Observations, reviewed by Catherine Jones Jean Delorme and Isabelle Donegani, L’Apocalypse de Jean: Révélation pour le temps de la violence et du désir, reviewed by Nils Neumann and Stephan Witetschek Ian J. Elmer, Paul, Jerusalem and the Judaisers: The Galatian Crisis in Its Broadest Historical Context, reviewed by Davina C. Lopez André Myre, Pour l’avenir du monde: La résurrection revisitée, reviewed by Jeffrey F. Cayzer Randall W. Reed, A Clash of Ideologies: Marxism, Liberation Theology, and Apocalypticism in New Testament Studies, reviewed by Leif E. Vaage Hal Taussig, In the Beginning Was the Meal: Social Experimentation and Early Christian Identity, reviewed by Pieter J. J. Botha General Biblical Studies ...

NT Blog turns eight today, and Mark Goodacre also notes that the German Bible Society has made the main texts of BHS, Septuaginta (ed. Hanhart), and NA27 available online.

[caption id="" align=“alignright” width=“80” caption=“Image via Wikipedia”] [/caption] The fall issue of the Journal of Biblical Literature includes: James Watts, “Aaron and the Golden Calf in the Rhetoric of the Pentateuch” Mark Leuchter, “The Ambiguous Details in the Blasphemer Narrative: Sources and Redaction in Leviticus 24:10–23” Serge Frolov and Allen Wright, “Homeric and Ancient Near Eastern Intertextuality in 1 Samuel 17” C. L. Crouch, “Ezekiel’s Oracles against the Nations in Light of a Royal Ideology of Warfare” Ted Erho, “Historical-Allusional Dating and the Similitudes of Enoch” David Sick, “The Architriklinos at Cana” Roy Ciampa, “‘Examined the Scriptures’? The Meaning of α̉ναϰρíνoντες τὰς γραϕάς in Acts 17:11” Tzvi Novick, “Peddling Scents: Merchandise and Meaning in 2 Corinthians 2:14–17” Jennifer Glancy and Stephen Moore, “How Typical a Roman Prostitute Is Revelation’s ‘Great Whore’?” Stephen Barton, “Eschatology and the Emotions in Early Christianity” Theodore Bergren, “Gentile Christians, Exile, and Return in 5 Ezra 1:35–40” ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Fields James W. Hardin, Lahav II: Households and the Use of Domestic Space at Iron II Tell Halif: An Archaeology of Destruction, reviewed by Raz Kletter New Testament and Cognate Fields Michael R. Cosby, Apostle on the Edge: An Inductive Approach to Paul, reviewed by James M. Howard Jeffrey A. Gibbs, Matthew 11:2–20:34, reviewed by Warren Carter Scot McKnight, The Letter of James, reviewed by Alicia J. Batten David F. Watson, Honor among Christians: The Cultural Key to the Messianic Secret, reviewed by Adam Winn General Biblical Studies and Cognate Fields ...

Alison Babeu has a new ebook freely available in PDF format: “Rome Wasn’t Digitized in a Day”: Building a Cyberinfrastructure for Digital Classicists (Washington, D. C.: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2011). According to the publisher, The author provides a summative and recent overview of the use of digital technologies in classical studies, focusing on classical Greece, Rome, and the ancient Middle and Near East, and generally on the period up to about 600 AD [ sic]. The report explores what projects exist and how they are used, examines the infrastructure that currently exists to support digital classics as a discipline, and investigates larger humanities cyberinfrastructure projects and existing tools or services that might be repurposed for the digital classics. ...

The latest publications from the Society of Biblical Literature include: Yitzhaq Feder, Blood Expiation in Hittite and Biblical Ritual: Origins, Context, and Meaning Itamar Singer, The Calm before the Storm: Selected Writings of Itamar Singer on the End of the Late Bronze Age in Anatolia and the Levant Alan Lenzi, ed., Reading Akkadian Prayers and Hymns: An Introduction

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies Joshua Blau, Phonology and Morphology of Biblical Hebrew: An Introduction, reviewed by Jeremy M. Hutton Daniel C. Snell, Religions of the Ancient Near East, reviewed by Gert T. M. Prinsloo New Testament and Cognate Studies ...

C. S. Lewis’s introduction to Athanasius’s On the Incarnation has since been reprinted under the title “On the Reading of Old Books” as, for instance, in Walter Hooper’s edited collection of Lewis miscellanies, God in the Dock. This introduction’s text is, however, also available at Silouan in HTML format (HT: Michael Hyatt). ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies Ehud Ben Zvi and Diana V. Edelman, eds., The Production of Prophecy: Constructing Prophecy and Prophets in Yehud, reviewed by Bob Becking Joel M. LeMon, Yahweh’s Winged Form in the Psalms: Exploring Congruent Iconography and Texts, reviewed by Jeremy M. Hutton Daniel O’Hare, “Have You Seen, Son of Man?”: A Study of the Translation and Vorlage of LXX Ezekiel 40–48, reviewed by Francis Dalrymple-Hamilton New Testament and Cognate Studies ...

Ancient World Online has added La Base d’Information Bibliographique en Patristique to its listings.

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 Nijay K. Gupta Troels Engberg-Pedersen, Cosmology and Self in the Apostle Paul: The Material Spirit, reviewed by Kevin McCruden John Paul Heil, Colossians: Encouragement to Walk in All Wisdom as Holy Ones in Christ, reviewed by Rodrigo J. Morales Heikki Räisänen, The Rise of Christian Beliefs: The Thought World of Early Christians, reviewed by Gosnell Yorke Robert Titley, A Poetic Discontent: Austin Farrer and the Gospel of Mark, reviewed by Mark A. Matson Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies Scott A. Ellington, Risking Truth: Reshaping the World through Prayers of Lament, reviewed by Philip E. Satterthwaite Andreas Hahn, Canon Hebraeorum-Canon Ecclesiae: Zur deuterokanonischen Frage im Rahmen der Begründung alttestamentlicher Schriftkanonizität in neuerer römisch-katholischer Dogmatik, reviewed by Mark Elliott Michael G. Wechsler, ed., The Arabic Translation and Commentary of Yefet ben ‘Eli the Karaite on the Book of Esther: Edition, Translation, and Introduction, reviewed by John Kaltner Timothy M. Willis, Leviticus, reviewed by Christophe Nihan New Testament and Cognate Studies ...

The latest issue of the Biblical Theology Bulletin includes: Gary Stansell, “David and His Friends: Social-Scientific Perspectives on the David-Jonathan Friendship,” 115–31 Santiago Guijarro and Ana Rodríguez, “The ‘Messianic’ Anointing of Jesus (Mark 14:3–9),” 132–43 Melanie Baffes, “Christology and Discipleship in John 7:37–38,” 144–50 Pieter F. Craffert, “Shamanism and the Shamanic Complex,” 151–61 Among this issue’s book reviews is also my review of Mark Given, ed., Paul Unbound: Other Perspectives on the Apostle (166–67). ...

[caption id="" align=“alignright” width=“80” caption=“New Testament Studies”] [/caption] The latest issue of New Testament Studies includes: Simon Joseph, “‘Blessed is Whoever is Not Offended by Me’: The Subversive Appropriation of (Royal) Messianic Ideology in Q 3–7” Douglas Campbell, “Galatians 5.11: Evidence of an Early Law-observant Mission by Paul?” Stefan Nordgaard, “Paul’s Appropriation of Philo’s Theory of ‘Two Men’ in 1 Corinthians 15.45–49” Christine Gerber, “Leben allein aus Gnade. Eph 2.1-10 und die paulinische Rechtfertigungsbotschaft” Peter Arzt-Grabner, “Gott als verlässlicher Käufer: Einige Papyrologische Anmerkungen und bibeltheologische Schlussfolgerungen zum Gottesbild der Paulusbriefe” Michael Martin and Jason Whitlark, “The Encomiastic Topics of Syncrisis as the Key to the Structure and Argument of Hebrews” Paul Trebilco, “Why Did the Early Christians Call Themselves ?” ...

The latest issue of Currents in Biblical Research includes: Geoffrey D. Miller, “Intertextuality in Old Testament Research,” 283–309 Paul Foster, “The Gospel of Peter: Directions and Issues in Contemporary Research,” 310–38 Mark Batluck, “Religious Experience in New Testament Research,” 339–63 Daniel Johansson, “The Identity of Jesus in the Gospel of Mark: Past and Present Proposals,” 364–93 C.D. Elledge, “Future Resurrection of the Dead in Early Judaism: Social Dynamics, Contested Evidence,” 394–421

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies Alejandro F. Botta, The Aramaic and Egyptian Legal Traditions at Elephantine: An Egyptological Approach, reviewed by Aaron Koller Eric M. Meyers and Paul V. M. Flesher, eds., Aramaic in Postbiblical Judaism and Early Christianity: Papers from the 2004 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar at Duke University, reviewed by John Engle Dvora E. Weisberg, Levirate Marriage and the Family in Ancient Judaism, reviewed by Obiorah Mary Jerome New Testament and Cognate Studies ...

[caption id=“attachment_7519” align=“alignright” width=“80” caption=“Craig Blomberg with Jennifer Markley”] [/caption] In Saturday’s mail arrived Craig Blomberg’s Handbook of New Testament Exegesis, with Jennifer Markley (Baker, 2010), which I’ll be reviewing this summer for the Stone-Campbell Journal. The text is just over 300 pages, and the back cover includes recommendations from Thomas Schreiner, Jeannine Brown, Grant Osborne, and Mark Strauss. At first brush, this introductory text also includes some discussions that should push its readers in a more technical direction. So, I’ll certainly be interested in working through the book in detail in the coming weeks. ...

Courtesy of Stanford University, Google Books has available the full text Pinkhos Churgin’s Targum Jonathan to the Prophets(Yale, 1907; Google eBook; PDF). ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: New Testament and Cognate Studies James K. Beilby and Paul Rhodes Eddy, eds., The Historical Jesus: Five Views, reviewed by Pieter F. Craffert Jeremy Corley, ed., New Perspectives on the Nativity, reviewed by Mark R. C. Grundeken Laura Nasrallah and Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, eds., Prejudice and Christian Beginnings: Investigating Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in Early Christianity, reviewed by Hal Taussig Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies ...

[caption id=“attachment_7423” align=“alignright” width=“80” caption=“Steve Moore”] [/caption] Amazon currently has the Kindle edition of Steve Moore’s Who Is My Neighbor?: Being a Good Samaritan in a Connected World ( NavPress, 2011) available for free. ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies John J. Ahn and Stephen L. Cook, eds., Thus Says the Lord: Essays on the Former and Latter Prophets in Honor of Robert R. Wilson, reviewed by Edgar W. Conrad Scott N. Callaham, Modality and the Biblical Hebrew Infinitive Absolute, reviewed by Brian L. Webster Jurrien Mol, Collective and Individual Responsibility: A Description of Corporate Personality in Ezekiel 18 and 20, reviewed by Karin Schöpflin Susanne Scholz, Sacred Witness: Rape in the Hebrew Bible, reviewed by Eve Levavi Feinstein and Agnethe Siquans J. Randall Short, The Surprising Election and Confirmation of King David, reviewed by Steven L. McKenzie New Testament and Cognate Studies ...

The latest issue of Themelios includes the following: Carl Trueman, “Minority Report: Know Your Limits: The Key Secret of Theological Controversy” Keith E. Johnson, “Trinitarian Agency and the Eternal Subordination of the Son: An Augustinian Perspective” Uche Anizor, “A Spirited Humanity: The Trinitarian Ecclesiology of Colin Gunton” Stephen Dempster, “Review Article: Magnum Opus and Magna Carta: The Meaning of the Pentateuch” Robert H. Gundry, “Pastoral Pensées: The Hopelessness of the Unevangelized”

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies Ehud Ben Zvi and James D. Nogalski, Two Sides of a Coin: Juxtaposing Views on Interpreting the Book of the Twelve/the Twelve Prophetic Books, reviewed by Marvin A. Sweeney Katell Berthelot, Thierry Legrand, and André Paul, eds., Torah: Genèse, reviewed by Kristin De Troyer Paul D. Korchin, Markedness in Canaanite and Hebrew Verbs, reviewed by John Lubbe Jürg Luchsinger, Poetik der alttestamentlichen Spruchweisheit, reviewed by James Alfred Loader New Testament and Cognate Studies ...

The spring issue of the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society arrived in the mail late last week and includes the following: Eugene Merrill, “Old Testament Scholarship and the Man in the Street: Whence and Whither?,” 5–17 Thomas Schreiner, “The Saving Righteousness of God in Christ,” 19–34 Frank Thielman, “God’s Righteousness as God’s Fairness in Romans 1:17: An Ancient Perspective on a Significant Phrase,” 35–48 N. T. Wright, “Justification: Yesterday, Today, and Forever,” 49–63 John Rhoads, “Josephus Misdated the Census of Quirinius,” 65–87 Mark Saucy, " Regnum Spiriti: The Role of the Spirit in the Social Ethics of the Kingdom," 89–108 William Dennison, “The Christian Academy: Antithesis, Common Grace, and Plato’s View of the Soul,” 109–131 The essays from Schreiner, Theilman, and Wright are versions of their plenary addresses at this past November’s annual Evangelical Theological Society meeting. So, those who were interested in hearing these addresses but were unable to attend the meeting may find these three articles particularly interesting. ...

This year’s first issue of the Bulletin for Biblical Research arrived in the mail last week and includes the following: Michael Graves, “Scholar and Advocate: The Stories of Moses in Midrash Exodus Rabbah,” 1–22 John Lawlor, “The ‘At-Sinai Narrative’: Exodus 18–Numbers 10,” 23–42 David Lincicum, “Philo on Phinehas and the Levites: Observing an Exegetical Connection,” 43–50 Mark Matthews, “The Genre of 2 Peter: A Comparison with Jewish and Early Christian Testaments,” 51–64 Armin Baum, “Revelatory Experience and Pseudepigraphical Attribution in Early Jewish Apocalypses,” 65–92 In addition, among the other book reviews in this issue is my review of G. Walter Hansen, The Letter to the Philippians(Pillar New Testament Commentary; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2009) on pages 129–31. ...

At least for the present, Amazon has available two Kindle versions of Penguin’s edition of Aristotle’s Poetics, page numbering included. The difference between the two seems mainly to be the difference between an older and a newer cover, with the version that has the newer cover retailing for $1.90. ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies Jeffrey Boss, Human Consciousness of God in the Book of Job: A Theological and Psychological Commentary, reviewed by William J. Kynes Sidney Greidanus, Preaching Christ from Ecclesiastes: Foundations for Expository Sermons, reviewed by Jordan M. Scheetz T. M. Lemos, Marriage Gifts and Social Change in Ancient Palestine: 1200 BCE to 200 CE, reviewed by Anselm C. Hagedorn Horst Seebass, Genesis I: Urgeschichte (1,1–11,26), reviewed by John Engle N. Wyatt, The Archaeology of Myth: Papers on Old Testament Tradition, reviewed by Uwe F. W. Bauer New Testament and Cognate Studies ...