Jewish-Scriptures

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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

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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”

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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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.

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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.