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Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (March 27, 2015)

Mon, 30 Mar 2015 17:07:03 +0000

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Miryam T. Brand, Evil Within and Without: The Source of Sin and Its Nature as Portrayed in Second Temple Literature, reviewed by Rodney A. Werline
Ronald E. Clements, Jerusalem and the Nations: Studies in the Book of Isaiah, reviewed by Bo H. Lim
John A. Cook and Robert D. Holmstedt, Beginning Biblical Hebrew: A Grammar and Illustrated Reader, reviewed by Bálint Károly Zabán
Jason von Ehrenkrook, Sculpting Idolatry in Flavian Rome: (An)Iconic Rhetoric in the Writings of Flavius Josephus, reviewed by Patrick McCullough
David A. Fiensy and Ralph K. Hawkins, eds., The Galilean Economy in the Time of Jesus, reviewed by Ulrich Busse and by Sarah E. Rollens
André Gagné and Jean-François Racine, eds., En marge du canon: Études sur les écrits apocryphes juifs et chrétiens, reviewed by Edmon L. Gallagher
Jonathan S. Greer, Dinner at Dan: Biblical and Archaeological Evidence for Sacred Feasts at Iron Age II Tel Dan and Their Significance, reviewed by Aren M. Maeir
Helen R. Jacobus, Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme, and Philippe Guillaume, eds., Studies on Magic and Divination in the Biblical World, reviewed by Craig A. Evans
David Marcus, Scribal Wit: Aramaic Mnemonics in the Leningrad Codex, reviewed by Christopher Dost
Susan Marks, First Came Marriage: The Rabbinic Appropriation of Early Jewish Wedding Ritual, reviewed by Joshua Schwartz
David R. Nienhuis and Robert W. Wall, Reading the Epistles of James, Peter, John and Jude as Scripture: The Shaping and Shape of a Canonical Collection, reviewed by John Kloppenborg
John Painter and David A. deSilva, James and Jude, reviewed by Darian Lockett
Luis Sánchez Navarro, Escudriñar las Escrituras: Verbum Domini y la interpretación bíblica, reviewed by Jeffrey L. Morrow
C. S. Song, In the Beginning Were Stories, Not Texts: Story Theology, reviewed by Michelle J. Morris

Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (February 13, 2014)

Sat, 15 Feb 2014 00:00:58 +0000

The latest reviews in the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

Rainer Albertz and Jakob Wöhrle, eds., Between Cooperation and Hostility: Multiple Identities in Ancient Judaism and the Interaction with Foreign Powers, reviewed by Michael L. Satlow
C. A. Strine, Sworn Enemies: The Divine Oath, the Book of Ezekiel, and the Polemics of Exile, reviewed by John T. Strong
Heath A. Thomas, Jeremy Evans, and Paul Copan, eds., Holy War in the Bible: Christian Morality and an Old Testament Problem, reviewed by Guenther Haas
Amram Tropper, Simeon the Righteous in Rabbinic Literature: A Legend Reinvented, reviewed by Joshua Schwartz

New Testament and Cognate Studies

Bulletin for Biblical Research 23, no. 1

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:24:46 +0000

The latest issue of the Bulletin for Biblical Research arrived in yesterday’s mail and includes:

Joshua Philpot, “Exodus 34:29–35 and Moses’ Shining Face”
Edward Bridge, “The Metaphoric Use of Slave Terms in the Hebrew Bible”
Gregory Goswell, “Joshua and Kingship”
Gregory Wong, “A Farewell to Arms: Goliath’s Death as Rhetoric against Faith in Arms”
David DeSilva, “The Human Ideal, the Problem of Evil, and Moral Responsibility in 4 Maccabees”