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Sat, 18 Nov 2023 08:19:05 +0000

Faith Comes by Hearing has a selection of free audio Bibles, including the English Standard Version.

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Codex Marchalianus

Wed, 09 May 2018 19:50:50 +0000

The Vatican Library has an online facsimile of Codex Marchalianus (7th–8th c.). The codex contains the text of the prophets and associated writings.

Free Book of the Month - Logos Bible Software

Thu, 01 Dec 2016 14:19:41 +0000

For December 2016, Logos Bible Software’s free book is Tremper Longman’s How to Read Proverbs (IVP, 2002). The accompanying volume for $1.99 is Longman’s How to Read the Psalms (IVP, 1988).

Source: Free Book of the Month - Logos Bible Software

Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (February 6, 2015)

Fri, 06 Feb 2015 17:45:33 +0000

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Daniel I. Block, Beyond the River Chebar: Studies in Kingship and Eschatology in the Book of Ezekiel, reviewed by Sven Petry
Reinhard Feldmeier, Power, Service, Humility: A New Testament Ethic, reviewed by David Briones
David G. Firth, 1 and 2 Samuel: A Kingdom Comes, reviewed by Ralph Henson
Martha Himmelfarb, Between Temple and Torah: Essays on Priests, Scribes, and Visionaries in the Second Temple Period and Beyond, reviewed by L. Michael Morales
Cornelia Linde, How to Correct the Sacra Scriptura?: Textual Criticism of the Bible between the Twelfth and Fifteenth Century, reviewed by Jeffrey L. Morrow
Kim Lan Nguyen, Chorus in the Dark: The Voices of the Book of Lamentations, reviewed by Charles William Miller
Jesse E. Robertson, The Death of Judas: The Characterization of Judas Iscariot in Three Early Christian Accounts of His Death, reviewed by Lee M. Jefferson
Michael Trainor, About Earth’s Child: An Ecological Listening to the Gospel of Luke, reviewed by C. Jason Borders
David Trobisch, A User’s Guide to the Nestle-Aland 28 Greek New Testament, reviewed by Michael W. Holmes and by Jan Krans

Research@StAndrews

Wed, 01 Oct 2014 13:59:03 +0000

Research@StAndrews:FullText is:

[A] digital repository of research output from the University of St Andrews. Since 2006 the University has required theses to be submitted to the repository. . . . The Research@StAndrews Portal provides links to the full text of research publications which are stored in Research@StAndrews:FullText.

From the School of Divinity, 160 theses are available.

Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (June 20, 2014)

Fri, 20 Jun 2014 21:05:35 +0000

The latest reviews in the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

William Goodman, Yearning for You: Psalms and the Song of Songs in Conversation with Rock and Worship Songs, reviewed by T. Michael W. Halcomb
David Weiss Halivni, The Formation of the Babylonian Talmud, reviewed by Joshua Ezra Burns
Isaac Kalimi, ed., Jewish Bible Theology: Perspectives and Case Studies, reviewed by Ginny Brewer-Boydston
Vita Daphna Arbel, Forming Femininity in Antiquity: Eve, Gender, and Ideologies in the Greek Life of Adam and Eve, reviewed by F. Scott Spencer
Víctor Morla, Los manuscritos hebreos de Ben Sira: Traducción y notas, reviewed by Nuria Calduch-Benages
Peter W. Flint, The Dead Sea Scrolls, reviewed by George J. Brooke

New Testament and Cognate Studies

Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (June 13, 2014)

Thu, 19 Jun 2014 21:17:10 +0000

The latest reviews in the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

Jenny R. Labendz, Socratic Torah: Non-Jews in Rabbinic Intellectual Culture, reviewed by Joshua Schwartz
Thomas L. Thompson, Biblical Narrative and Palestine’s History: Changing Perspectives 2, reviewed by Ralph K. Hawkins

New Testament and Cognate Studies

Bruce W. Longenecker, Hearing the Silence: Jesus on the Edge and God in the Gap—Luke 4 in Narrative Perspective, reviewed by Dieter T. Roth
Timothy Milinovich, Beyond What Is Written: The Performative Structure of 1 Corinthians, reviewed by Matthew R. Malcolm
Joel B. Green and Lee Martin McDonald, eds., The World of the New Testament: Cultural, Social, and Historical Contexts, reviewed by John J. Pilch
Ekkehard W. Stegemann; Christina Tuor and Peter Wick, eds., Der Römerbrief: Brennpunkte der Rezeption, reviewed by Oda Wischmeyer

Miscellaneous

Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (Catch-up Ed.)

Fri, 09 May 2014 22:30:23 +0000

The latest reviews in the Review of Biblical Literature include those below. In biblioblog time, some of these reviews date back almost to eternity past, but I’m going ahead and posting them here for future reference.

Update (5/13): The following now includes the April 24 listings I’d missed out previously.

March 14

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

Alan Appelbaum, The Rabbis’ King-Parables: Midrash from the Third-Century Roman Empire, reviewed by Rachel Adelman
Magnar Kartveit, Rejoice, Dear Zion!: Hebrew Construct Phrases with “Daughter” and “Virgin” as Nomen Regens, reviewed by Peter Bekins
Tyler D. Mayfield, Literary Structure and Setting in Ezekiel, reviewed by Richard G. Smith

New Testament and Cognate Studies

Schreiner, The King in His Beauty

Wed, 03 Jul 2013 21:00:49 +0000

Baker and the Stone-Campbell Journal were kind enough to provide a copy of Tom Schreiner’s The King in His Beauty: A Biblical Theology of the Old and New Testaments. According to the publisher’s description, Schreiner:

offers a substantial and accessibly written overview of the whole Bible. He traces the storyline of the scriptures from the standpoint of biblical theology, examining the overarching message that is conveyed throughout. Schreiner emphasizes three interrelated and unified themes that stand out in the biblical narrative: God as Lord, human beings as those who are made in God’s image, and the land or place in which God’s rule is exercised. The goal of God’s kingdom is to see the king in his beauty and to be enraptured in his glory.

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”

Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (March 25, 2013)

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 17:53:26 +0000

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

John E. Anderson, Jacob and the Divine Trickster: A Theology of Deception and Yhwh’s Fidelity to the Ancestral Promise in the Jacob Cycle, reviewed by Koog P. Hong
Frank Lothar Hossfeld and Eric Zenger, Psalms 3: A Commentary on Psalms 101–150, reviewed by Leonard P. Maré
Pirjo Lapinkivi, The Neo-Assyrian Myth of Istar’s Descent and Resurrection, reviewed by James R. Getz Jr.
Jordan M. Scheetz, The Concept of Canonical Intertextuality and the Book of Daniel, reviewed by Philippus J. Botha and by Don Collett
Janet Smith, Dust or Dew: Immortality in the Ancient Near East and in Psalm 49, reviewed by Ilaria L. E. Ramelli

New Testament and Cognate Studies

Journal of Biblical Literature 132, no. 1

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:26:06 +0000

The latest issue of the Journal of Biblical Literature includes:

John Dominic Crossan, “A Vision of Divine Justice: The Resurrection of Jesus in Eastern Christian Iconography”
Jill Hicks-Keeton, “Already/Not Yet: Eschatological Tension in the Book of Tobit”
Shane Berg, “Ben Sira, the Genesis Creation Accounts, and the Knowledge of God’s Will”
Seth Bledsoe, “Can Ahiqar Tell Us Anything about Personified Wisdom?”
Richard Steiner, “Four Inner-Biblical Interpretations of Genesis 49:10: On the Lexical and Syntactic Ambiguities of עַד as Reflected in the Prophecies of Nathan, Ahijah, Ezekiel, and Zechariah”
Richard Hicks, “Markan Discipleship according to Malachi: The Significance of μὴ ἀποστερήσῃς in the Story of the Rich Man (Mark 10:17-22)”
David Moffitt and Jacob Butera, “P. Duk. inv. 727r: New Evidence for the Meaning and Provenance of the Word Προσήλυτος”
Ronald Troxel, “The Problem of Time in Joel”
Jonathan Stökl, “The מתנבאות in Ezekiel 13 Reconsidered”

Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (March 16, 2013)

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 13:39:23 +0000

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

Keith Bodner, Jeroboam’s Royal Drama, reviewed by Mark McEntire
Erhard S. Gerstenberger, Israel in the Persian Period: The Fifth and Fourth Centuries B.C.E., reviewed by John Engle
Edwin M. Good, Genesis 1–11: Tales of the Earliest World, reviewed by Brian D. Russell
Michelle J. Levine, Nahmanides on Genesis: The Art of Biblical Portraiture, reviewed by George Savran
Emily Teeter, Religion and Ritual in Ancient Egypt, reviewed by Michael B. Hundley

New Testament and Cognate Studies

Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (February 26, 2013)

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:07:00 +0000

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

Melissa A. Jackson, Comedy and Feminist Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible: A Subversive Collaboration, reviewed by Kathryn D. Blanchard
Tremper Longman III, Introducing the Old Testament: A Short Guide to Its History and Message, reviewed by Trent Butler
James D. Nogalski, The Book of the Twelve: Hosea–Jonah, reviewed by Beth Stovell
Kathleen M. Rochester, Prophetic Ministry in Jeremiah and Ezekiel, reviewed by Wilhelm J. Wessels

New Testament and Cognate Studies

Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (February 3, 2013)

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 13:42:31 +0000

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

Francis Landy, Hosea, reviewed by Gert T. M. Prinsloo
Angela R. Roskop, The Wilderness Itineraries: Genre, Geography, and the Growth of Torah, reviewed by Nathan MacDonald
Mark R. Sneed, The Politics of Pessimism in Ecclesiastes: A Social-Science Perspective, reviewed by Robert Williamson Jr.

New Testament and Cognate Studies

Claire Clivaz and Jean Zumstein, eds., Reading New Testament Papyri in Context – Lire des papyrus du Nouveau Testament dans leur contexte, reviewed by Peter Arzt-Grabner
Tobias Hägerland, Jesus and the Forgiveness of Sins: An Aspect of His Prophetic Mission, reviewed by William R. G. Loader
Craig S. Keener, Romans, reviewed by Peter W. Gosnell

Second Temple Judaism

Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 55, no. 4

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 03:55:56 +0000

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The latest issue of the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society arrived in today’s mail and includes the following:

Matthew Akers, “What’s in a Name?: An Examination of the Usage of the Term ‘Hebrew’ in the Old Testament”
G. K. Beale, “The Use of Hosea 11:1 in Matthew 2:15: One More Time”
Joseph Greene, “The Spirit in the Temple: Bridging the Gap between Old Testament Absence and New Testament Assumption”
Moyer Hubbard, “Kept Safe through Childbearing: Maternal Mortality, Justification by Faith, and the Social Setting of 1 Timothy 2:15”
Peter Davids, “What Glasses Are You Wearing?: Reading Hebrew Narratives through Second Temple Lenses”
Bryan Litfin, “Eusebius on Constantine: Truth and Hagiography at the Milvian Bridge”
Steven Cowan, “Does 1 Corinthians 10:13 Imply Libertarian Freedom?: A Reply to Paul A. Himes”
Paul Himes, “First Corinthians 10:13: A Rejoinder to Steven Cowan”
Luke Van Horn, “On Incorporating Middle Knowledge into Calvinism: A Theological/Metaphysical Muddle?”

Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (January 5, 2013)

Sat, 05 Jan 2013 22:26:01 +0000

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

Eberhard Bons and Jans Joosten, eds., Septuagint Vocabulary: Pre-history, Usage, Reception, reviewed by Francis Dalrymple-Hamilton and by Daniel M. O’Hare
Deborah O’Daniel Cantrell, The Horsemen of Israel: Horses and Chariotry in Monarchic Israel, reviewed by Raz Kletter
Peter Enns, Ecclesiastes, reviewed by Gert T. M. Prinsloo

New Testament and Cognate Studies

Bruce W. Longenecker, Hearing the Silence: Jesus on the Edge and God in the Gap-Luke 4 in Narrative Perspective, reviewed by Michal Beth Dinkler
Stéphane Saulnier, Calendrical Variations in Second Temple Judaism: New Perspectives on the ‘Date of the Last Supper’ Debate, reviewed by Helen Jacobus
Jarvis J. Williams, Maccabean Martyr Traditions in Paul’s Theology of Atonement: Did Martyr Theology Shape Paul’s Conception of Jesus’s Death?, reviewed by Jan Willem van Henten

Miscellaneous

Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (December 22, 2012)

Sun, 23 Dec 2012 03:38:14 +0000

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

Georg Fischer and Dominik Markl, Das Buch Exodus, reviewed by Paul Sanders
Peter Hon Wan Lau, Identity and Ethics in the Book of Ruth: A Social Identity Approach, reviewed by Timothy Stone
Nancy C. Lee, Lyrics of Lament: From Tragedy to Transformation, reviewed by Ulrich Berges and by Leonard Mare
John H. Sailhamer, The Meaning of the Pentateuch: Revelation, Composition and Interpretation, reviewed by Andrew Steinmann
Simon P. Stocks, The Form and Function of the Tricolon in the Psalms of Ascents: Introducing a New Paradigm for Hebrew Poetic Line-form, reviewed by Gert T. M. Prinsloo

New Testament and Cognate Studies

Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (December 15, 2012)

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:16:41 +0000

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

Moshe Bar-Asher and Devorah Dimant, eds., Meghillot [Hebrew]: Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls, VIII-IX, reviewed by George Brooke
Abigail Pelham, Contested Creations in the Book of Job: The-World-as-It-Ought- and-Ought-Not-to-Be, reviewed by Norman Habel
Beat Weber, Werkbuch Psalmen III: Theologie und Spiritualität des Psalters und seiner Psalmen, reviewed by Mark Elliott
Ina Willi-Plein, Das Buch Genesis: Kapitel 12-50, reviewed by Wolfgang Zwickel

New Testament and Cognate Studies

Journal of Biblical Literature 131, no. 4

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 14:37:56 +0000

The latest issue of the Journal of Biblical Literature includes:

Jonathan Kaplan, “1 Samuel 8:11-18 as ‘A Mirror for Princes’”
Nizzim Amzallag and Mikhal Avriel, “The Cryptic Meaning of the Isaiah 14 Māšāl”
Mark Hamilton, “Isaiah 32 as Literature and Political Meditation”
Mark Awabdy, “Yhwh Exegetes Torah: How Ezekiel 44:7–9 Bars Foreigners from the Sanctuary”
Christian Stadel, “A Septuagint Translation Tradition and the Samaritan Targum to Genesis 41:43”
John Meier, “The Parable of the Wheat and the Weeds (Matthew 13:24–30): Is Thomas’s Version (Logion 57) Independent?”
Andrew Simmonds, “Mark’s and Matthew’s Sub Rosa Message in the Scene of Pilate and the Crowd”
Matthew Rindge, “Reconfiguring the Akedah and Recasting God: Lament and Divine Abandonment in Mark”
Benjamin Lappenga, “Misdirected Emulation and Paradoxical Zeal: Paul’s Redefinition of ‘The Good’ as Object of ζῆλος in Galatians 4:12–20”
Callie Callon, “Secondary Characters Furthering Characterization: The Depiction of Slaves in the Acts of Peter”

Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (November 23, 2012)

Sat, 24 Nov 2012 02:26:31 +0000

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

Giovanni Garbini, Letteratura e politica nell’Israele antico, reviewed by Dempsey Rosales Acosta
Benno Jacob, The First Book of the Bible: Genesis (augmented edition), edited by Ernest Jacob and Walter Jacob, reviewed by Joel S. Baden
Dale Launderville, Celibacy in the Ancient World: Its Ideal and Practice in Pre-Hellenistic Israel, Mesopotamia, and Greece, reviewed by Pancratius C. Beentjes
Erle Leichty, The Royal Inscriptions of Esarhaddon, King of Assyria (680–669 BC), reviewed by Paul Sanders
Lauren A. S. Monroe, Josiah’s Reform and the Dynamics of Defilement: Israelite Rites of Violence and the Making of a Biblical Text, reviewed by Ovidiu Creanga
Randall Heskett and Brian P. Irwin, eds., The Bible as a Human Witness to Divine Revelation: Hearing the Word of God through Historically Dissimilar Traditions, reviewed by S. D. Giere

New Testament and Cognate Studies

Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (November 9, 2012)

Sat, 10 Nov 2012 02:28:39 +0000

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

Victor P. Hamilton, Exodus: An Exegetical Commentary, reviewed by Brian D. Russell
Matthias Henze, ed., A Companion to Biblical Interpretation in Early Judaism, reviewed by Lester Grabbe
Sara M. Koenig, Isn’t This Bathsheba? A Study in Characterization, reviewed by Rachelle Gilmour
Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Z. Brettler, The Jewish Annotated New Testament, reviewed by Zev Garber

New Testament and Cognate Studies

In the Mail: Tigay, Deuteronomy

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 13:57:00 +0000

The volume has been available for quite some time, but in yesterday’s mail arrived Jeffrey Tigay’s Deutronomy (The JPS Torah Commentary, 1996). According to the publisher,

The JPS Torah Commentary series guides readers through the words and ideas of the Torah. Each volume is the work of a scholar who stands at the pinnacle of his field.

Every page contains the complete traditional Hebrew text, with cantillation notes, the JPS translation of the Holy Scriptures, aliyot breaks, Masoretic notes, and commentary by a distinguished Hebrew Bible scholar, integrating classical and modern sources.

NETS Online

Sat, 13 Oct 2012 09:26:00 +0000

The University of Pennsylvania has made available online a series of PDFs containing the New English Translation of the Septuagint (Oxford, 2009). In keeping with the NETS’s printed text, the beginning of each file also contains a good introduction to the translation that it provides (HT: Charles Jones).

Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (October 5, 2012)

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 20:41:37 +0000

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

Reinhard G. Kratz and Hermann Spieckermann, eds., One God-One Cult-One Nation: Archaeological and Biblical Perspectives, reviewed by Aren Maeir
Matthew Morgenstern, Studies in Jewish Babylonian Aramaic Based upon Early Eastern Manuscripts, reviewed by Aaron Koller
T. Muraoka, A Grammar of Qumran Aramaic, reviewed by Adam McCollum
Bezalel Porten, The Elephantine Papyri in English: Three Millennia of Cross-Cultural Continuity and Change, reviewed by Jeremy Hutton and by Jerome A. Lund
Seth D. Postell, Adam as Israel: Genesis 1–3 as the Introduction to the Torah and Tanakh, reviewed by L. Michael Morales
Gordon J. Wenham, Psalms as Torah: Reading Biblical Song Ethically, reviewed by Joseph R. Kelly

New Testament and Cognate Studies

Hasselbach and Pat-El, eds., Language and Nature

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 01:59:25 +0000

The University of Chicago is making the new Festschrift for John Huehnergard available for free in PDF format (HT: Charles Jones).

Review of Biblical Literature (September 30, 2012)

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 14:25:24 +0000

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include the following:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

Steven Fassberg, The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Challa, reviewed by Aaron Koller
Lisbeth S. Fried, ed., Was 1 Esdras First?: An Investigation into the Priority and Nature of 1 Esdras, reviewed by Andrew Steinmann
Detlef Jericke, Regionaler Kult und lokaler Kult: Studien zur Kult- und Religionsgeschichte Israels und Judas im 9. und 8. Jahrhundert v. Chr., reviewed by John Engle
Vadim Jigoulov, The Social History of Achaemenid Phoenicia: Being a Phoenician, Negotiating Empires, reviewed by S. Rebecca Martin
Joel S. Kaminsky and Joel N. Lohr, The Torah: A Beginner’s Guide, reviewed by Rachel S. Mikva
William Loader, The Pseudepigrapha on Sexuality: Attitudes towards Sexuality in Apocalypses, Testaments, Legends, Wisdom, and Related Literature, reviewed by Françoise Mirguet

New Testament and Cognate Studies

Journal of Biblical Literature 131, no. 3

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 14:07:17 +0000

The latest issue of the Journal of Biblical Literature includes:

Serge Frolov, “Judah Comes to Shiloh: Genesis 49:10bα, One More Time”
Philip Y. Yoo, “The Four Moses Death Accounts”
Brian P. Irwin, “Not Just Any King: Abimelech, the Northern Monarchy, and the Final Form of Judges”
Benjamin J. M. Johnson, “The Heart of YHWH’s Chosen One in 1 Samuel”
Martien A. Halvorson-Taylor, “Secrets and Lies: Secrecy Notices (Esther 2:10, 20) and Diasporic Identity in the Book of Esther”
Ryan M. Armstrong, “Psalms Dwelling Together in Unity: The Placement of Psalms 133 and 134 in Two Different Psalms Collections”
Ryan P. Bonfiglio, “Archer Imagery in Zechariah 9:11-17 in Light of Achaemenid Iconography”
Robert K. McIver, “Eyewitnesses as Guarantors of the Accuracy of the Gospel Traditions in the Light of Psychological Research”
Joshua W. Jipp, “Paul’s Areopagus Speech of Acts 17:16-34 as Both Critique and Propaganda”
John K. Goodrich, “Voluntary Debt Remission and the Parable of the Unjust Steward (Luke 16:1-13)”
Curtis Hutt, “‘Be Ye Approved Money Changers!’: Reexamining the Social Contexts of the Saying and Its Interpretation”

Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (August 24, 2012)

Fri, 24 Aug 2012 17:25:54 +0000

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include the following:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

S. Bar, D. Kahn, and J. J. Shirley, eds., Egypt, Canaan and Israel: History, Imperialism, Ideology and Literature, reviewed by Aren M. Maeir
Scott W. Hahn, The Kingdom of God as Liturgical Empire: A Theological Commentary on 1–2 Chronicles, reviewed by Mark Mcentire
Roy L. Heller, Conversations with Scripture: The Book of Judges, reviewed by Klaas Spronk
Robin Routledge, Old Testament Theology: A Thematic Approach, reviewed by Hubert James Keener
Erich Zenger, Einleitung in das Alte Testament, edited by Christian Frevel, reviewed by Trent C. Butler and by Jordan M. Scheetz

Miscellaneous

Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (August 9, 2012)

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 14:36:40 +0000

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include the following:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

Stéphanie Anthonioz, « À qui me comparerez-vous ? » (Is 40,25): La polémique contre l’idolâtrie dans le Deutéro-Isaïe, reviewed by Sven Petry
Jason Bembry, Yahweh’s Coming of Age, reviewed by Johannes de Moor
Francesca Stavrakopoulou, Land of Our Fathers: The Roles of Ancestor Veneration in Biblical Land Claims, reviewed by Bob Becking
Michael P. Streck, Altbabylonisches Lehrbuch, reviewed by Gerhard Karner

New Testament and Cognate Studies

Walton, Matthews, and Chavalas, Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 14:22:48 +0000

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Ahead of class this fall, the folks at InterVarsity have kindly forwarded John Walton, Victor Matthews, and Mark Chavalas’s Old Testament backgrounds commentary (2000). According to the publisher’s description,

The unique commentary joins The IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament in providing historical, social and cultural background for each passage of the Old Testament. From Genesis through Malachi, this single volume gathers and condenses an abundance of specialized knowledge—making it available and accessible to ordinary readers of the Old Testament. Expert scholars John Walton, Victor Matthews and Mark Chavalas have included along with the fruits of their research and collaboration

Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 55, no. 2

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 11:54:48 +0000

Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society

The latest issue of the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society arrived in yesterday’s mail and includes the following:

David Chapman and Andreas Köstenberger, “Jewish Intertestamental and Early Rabbinic Literature: An Annotated Bibliographic Resource Updated (Part 1)”
Armin Baum, “A Theological Justification for the Canonical Status of Literary Forgeries: Jacob’s Deceit (Genesis 27) and Petr Pokorný’s Sola Gratia Argument”
Walter Kaiser Jr., “Is It the Case that Christ is the Same Object of Faith in the Old Testament? (Genesis 15:1–6)”
Josh Chatraw, “Balancing Out (W)Right: Jesus’ Theology of Individual and Corporate Repentance and Forgiveness in the Gospel of Luke”
Stanley Porter and Bryan Dyer, “Oral Texts?: A Reassessment of the Oral and Rhetorical Nature of Paul’s Letters in Light of Recent Studies”
Adam Hensley, “Σιγάω, λαλέω, and ὑποτάσσω in 1 Corinthians 14:34 in Their Literary and Rhetorical Context”
Victor Rhee, “The Author of Hebrews as a Leader of the Faith Community”
Russell Moore, “The Kingdom of God in the Social Ethics of Carl F. H. Henry: A Twenty-first Century Evangelical Reappraisal”

Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (July 26, 2012)

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:37:15 +0000

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

John Choi, Traditions at Odds: The Reception of the Pentateuch in Biblical and Second Temple Period Literature, reviewed by John Engle
Scott C. Jones, Rumors of Wisdom: Job 28 as Poetry, reviewed by Edward L. Greenstein
Michael E. W. Thompson, Where Is the God of Justice?: The Old Testament and Suffering, reviewed by Pekka Pitkanen
Julie Woods, Jeremiah 48 as Christian Scripture, reviewed by Frederik Poulsen

New Testament and Cognate Studies

Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (July 19, 2012)

Fri, 20 Jul 2012 13:01:36 +0000

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

Leslie C. Allen, A Liturgy of Grief: A Pastoral Commentary on Lamentations, reviewed by Elizabeth Boase
Edwin M. Good, Genesis 1–11: Tales of the Earliest World, reviewed by George Savran
R. B. Salters, Lamentations: A Critical and Exegetical Commentary, reviewed by Eleuterio Ruiz

New Testament and Cognate Studies

James Dawsey, Peter’s Last Sermon: Identity and Discipleship in the Gospel of Mark, reviewed by Adam Winn
Detlev Dormeyer, Das Lukasevangelium: Neu übersetzt und kommentiert, reviewed by M. Eugene Boring
Justo L. González, Luke, reviewed by Martin M. Culy
Kenneth Liljeström, ed., The Early Reception of Paul, reviewed by Stephan Witetschek

Second Temple Judaism

Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (July 11, 2012)

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:19:15 +0000

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

Stephen J. Bennett, Ecclesiastes/Lamentations: A Commentary in the Wesleyan Tradition, reviewed by Russell L. Meek
Alicia Suskin Ostriker, For the Love of God: The Bible as an Open Book, reviewed by Barbara Green

New Testament and Cognate Studies

Michael F. Bird and Joseph R. Dodson, eds., Paul and the Second Century, reviewed by Joseph B. Tyson
Gary Alan Chamberlain, The Greek of the Septuagint: A Supplemental Lexicon, reviewed by Peter Burton
Bruce W. Longenecker, Remember the Poor: Paul, Poverty, and the Greco-Roman World, reviewed by Kathy Ehrensperger and by L. L. Welborn
Charles B. Puskas and C. Michael Robbins, An Introduction to the New Testament, reviewed by J. Samuel Subramanian

Miscellaneous

Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (June 15, 2012)

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 11:47:15 +0000

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

Audio Hebrew Bible

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 05:55:05 +0000

The Leningrad Codex

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).

An audio version of the Hebrew Bible is also available here in “Sephardic-style modern Hebrew.” Although the audio quality is not as crisp as it is for Schwandt’s GNT recording, these Hebrew Bible recordings are an excellent, free resource. They seem to follow BHS (5th ed.) ( affiliate disclosure), but I have not seen this fact explicitly stated on the site.

BHS with WHM 4.2 (Logos ed.): An Erratum

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:44:21 +0000

Online, things change. In the current version of Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia with Westminster 4.2 Morphology in Logos 4, the “Text” section of the Preface refers readers to http://www.wts.edu/hebrew/whm.html for Al Groves’ “Supplement to the Code Manual for the Michigan Old Testament” (last rev. June 7, 1989). As of this writing, this URL redirects to Westminster Seminary’s homepage, but Groves’ supplement is presently still available here.

Brueggemann, "Preaching and Paradigmatic Creation"

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 12:55:34 +0000

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According to Lipscomb University’s website,

Walter Brueggemann, will be the keynote speaker at Lipscomb University’s annual Preaching Workshop, Oct. 24-26. His keynote speech, “Preaching & Paradigmatic Creation,” is free and open to the public at 7 p.m., Monday, Oct. 24, in Shamblin Theatre.

For more details, see here.

Lectures on Solomon

Fri, 02 Sep 2011 11:05:14 +0000

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According to Todd Bolen,

The Memory and Identity Working Group, University of California, Berkeley is hosting a lecture entitled “Mining for Solomon” by Professor Steven Weitzman (Stanford University) on Tuesday, September 6, 2011.

For more information, see here.