Review-of-Biblical-Literature

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

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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

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

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

• Anselm Hagedorn and Henrik Pfeiffer, eds., Die Erzväter in der biblischen Tradition: Festschrift für Matthias Köckert, reviewed by Cynthia Edenburg
• Adrian Schenker, Anfänge der Textgeschichte des Alten Testaments: Studien zu Entstehung und Verhältnis der frühesten Textformen, reviewed by Marjo C. A. Korpel

New Testament and Cognate Studies

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

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

• Richard S. Briggs and Joel N. Lohr, eds., A Theological Introduction to the Pentateuch: Interpreting the Torah as Christian Scripture, reviewed by Thomas Dozeman
• Roger Good, The Septuagint’s Translation of the Hebrew Verbal System in Chronicles, reviewed by Francis Dalrymple-Hamilton
• Norman K. Gottwald; ed. Rebecca J. Kruger Gaudino, The Hebrew Bible: A Brief Socio-Literary Introduction, reviewed by Steven L. McKenzie

New Testament and Cognate Studies

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

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

• Thomas W. Mann, The Book of the Former Prophets, reviewed by David G. Firth
• N. Verbin, Divinely Abused: A Philosophical Perspective on Job and His Kin, reviewed by F. Rachel Magdalene

New Testament and Cognate Studies

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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

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

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

• Reinhard Achenbach, Rainer Albertz, and Jakob Wöhrle, eds., The Foreigner and the Law: Perspectives from the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East, reviewed by Bradford A. Anderson
• Georg Fischer, Die Anfänge der Bibel: Studien zu Genesis und Exodus, reviewed by Frank H. Polak
• John Goldingay, Key Questions about Biblical Interpretation: Old Testament Answers, reviewed by John E. Anderson
• Feidhlimidh T. Magennis, First and Second Samuel, reviewed by William L. Lyons
• James D. Nogalski, The Book of the Twelve, reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer

New Testament and Cognate Studies

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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

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The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature includes the following discussions of texts in New Testament and cognate studies:

• Ann W. Astell and Sandor Goodhart, eds., Sacrifice, Scripture, and Substitution: Readings in Ancient Judaism and Christianity, reviewed by John Dunnill
• Daniel Boyarin, The Jewish Gospels: The Story of the Jewish Christ, reviewed by F. Stanley Jones
• Jeffrey Brodd and Jonathan L. Reed, eds., Rome and Religion: A Cross-Disciplinary Dialogue on the Imperial Cult, reviewed by John Kloppenborg
• Gonzalo Haya-Prats, Empowered Believers: The Holy Spirit in the Book of Acts, reviewed by Nils Neumann
• Larry W. Hurtado and Paul L. Owen, eds., ‘Who Is This Son of Man?’: The Latest Scholarship on a Puzzling Expression of the Historical Jesus, reviewed by Christopher Tuckett
• Yung Suk Kim, A Theological Introduction to Paul’s Letters: Exploring a Threefold Theology of Paul, reviewed by Jason Weaver
• Stefanos Mihalios, The Danielic Eschatological Hour in the Johannine Literature, reviewed by Dirk van der Merwe
• Klaus Wachtel and Michael W. Holmes, eds., The Textual History of the Greek New Testament: Changing Views in Contemporary Research, reviewed by Jean-François Racine
• James P. Ware, Paul and the Mission of the Church: Philippians in Ancient Jewish Context, reviewed by Angela Standhartinger
• John Morgan-Wynne, The Cross in the Johannine Writings, reviewed by David Crump

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

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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

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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

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The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

• Milton Eng, The Days of Our Years: A Lexical Semantic Study of the Life Cycle in Biblical Israel, reviewed by Paul Korchin
• Kristen H. Lindbeck, Elijah and the Rabbis: Story and Theology, reviewed by Sonya S. Cronin
• Hayim Tadmor; ed. Mordechai Cogan, “With My Many Chariots I Have Gone Up the Heights of the Mountains”: Historical and Literary Studies on Ancient Mesopotamia and Israel, reviewed by R. Russell Mack
• Leigh M. Trevaskis, Holiness, Ethics and Ritual in Leviticus, reviewed by James W. Watts

New Testament and Cognate Studies

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The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scripture and Cognate Studies

• Christopher B. Ansberry, Be Wise, My Son, and Make My Heart Glad: An Exploration of the Courtly Nature of the Book of Proverbs, reviewed by Anne W. Stewart
• Beate Pongratz-Leisten, ed., Reconsidering the Concept of Revolutionary Monotheism, reviewed by Michael B. Hundley
• Hanne von Weissenberg, Juha Pakkala, and Marko Marttila, eds., Changes in Scripture: Rewriting and Interpreting Authoritative Traditions in the Second Temple Period, reviewed by Ian Young

New Testament and Cognate Studies

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The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

• Robert B. Coote and Keith W. Whitelam, The Emergence of Early Israel in Historical Perspective, reviewed by Aren M. Maeir
• Tamara Cohn Eskenazi and Tikva Frymer-Kensky, Ruth, reviewed by Peter H. W. Lau
• John Kampen, Wisdom Literature, reviewed by Devorah Dimant
• Cotton Mather; ed. Reiner Smolinski, Genesis (Biblia Americana 1), reviewed by Mark Elliott

New Testament and Cognate Studies

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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

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The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

• Katell Berthelot and Thierry Legrand, eds., Torah: Exode, Lévitique, Nombres, reviewed by Eibert Tigchelaar
• Antonios Finitsis, Visions and Eschatology: A Socio-Historical Analysis of Zechariah 1–6, reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer
• Lester L. Grabbe, ed., Israel in Transition 2: From Late Bronze II to Iron IIA (c. 1250–850 BCE): The Texts, reviewed by Aren Maier
• Timothy Jay Johnson, Now My Eye Sees You: Unveiling an Apocalyptic Job, reviewed by Michael S. Moore

New Testament and Cognate Studies

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The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

• Barbara M. Leung Lai, Through the ‘I’-Window: The Inner Life of Characters in the Hebrew Bible, reviewed by Frank H. Polak
• John Van Seters, Studies in the History, Literature and Religion of Biblical Israel (Changing Perspectives 1), reviewed by Diana Edelman
• Michael Weigl, Die aramäischen Achikar-Sprüche aus Elephantine und die alttestamentliche Weisheitsliteratur, reviewed by Mark W. Hamilton

New Testament and Cognate Studies

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The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

• Yitzhaq Feder, Blood Expiation in Hittite and Biblical Ritual: Origins, Context, and Meaning, reviewed by Pekka Pitkänen
• David Frankel, The Land of Canaan and the Destiny of Israel: Theologies of Territory in the Hebrew Bible, reviewed by Phillip Sherman
• Lisbeth S. Fried, ed., Was 1 Esdras First? An Investigation into the Priority and Nature of 1 Esdras, reviewed by Erik Eynikel

New Testament and Cognate Studies

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The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

• Philip F. Esler, Sex, Wives, and Warriors: Reading Biblical Narrative with Its Ancient Audience, reviewed by Brian Peterson
• Tammi J. Schneider, An Introduction to Ancient Mesopotamian Religion, reviewed by Andrew Riley
• Andrew E. Steinmann, Ezra and Nehemiah, reviewed by Antje Labahn

New Testament and Cognate Studies

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The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

• Bob Becking and Susan Hennecke, eds., Out of Paradise: Eve and Adam and Their Interpreters, reviewed by Robert C. Kashow
• Tchavdar S. Hadjiev, The Composition and Redaction of the Book of Amos, reviewed by Beth Stovell
• Jack R. Lundbom, The Hebrew Prophets: An Introduction, reviewed by Göran Eidevall
• Marty Alan Michelson, Reconciling Violence and Kingship: A Study of Judges and 1 Samuel, reviewed by Klaas Spronk
• Seth D. Postell, Adam as Israel: Genesis 1–3 as the Introduction to the Torah and Tanakh. reviewed by John E. Anderson

New Testament and Cognate Studies

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The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

New Testament and Cognate Studies

• Brian J. Abasciano, Paul’s Use of the Old Testament in Romans 9.10-18: An Intertextual and Theological Exegesis, reviewed by Stephen Moyise
• Ron Cameron and Merrill P. Miller, eds., Redescribing Paul and the Corinthians, reviewed by Antoinette Clark Wire
• Rob Dalrymple, Revelation and the Two Witnesses: The Implications for Understanding John’s Depiction of the People of God and His Hortatory Intent, reviewed by Russell Morton
• Christopher Zoccali, Whom God Has Called: The Relationship of Church and Israel in Pauline Interpretation, 1920 to the Present, reviewed by James D. G. Dunn

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

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The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

• Douglas A. Knight, Law, Power, and Justice in Ancient Israel, reviewed by Markus Witte
• Gary D. Martin, Multiple Originals: New Approaches to Hebrew Bible Textual Criticism, reviewed by Johann Cook
• Robert D. Miller II, Oral Tradition in Ancient Israel, reviewed by Raymond F. Person Jr.
• Jonathan A. Moo, Creation, Nature and Hope in 4 Ezra, reviewed by Karina Martin Hogan
• Miles V. Van Pelt, English Grammar to Ace Biblical Hebrew, reviewed by Hubert Keener

New Testament and Cognate Studies

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The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

• Jeffrey Burns; David Bers and Stephen Tree, eds., The Music of Psalms, Proverbs and Job in the Hebrew Bible: A Revised Theory of Musical Accents in the Hebrew Bible, reviewed by Rebecca A. Mitchell and Matthew W. Mitchell
• Martin Leuenberger, Segen und Segenstheologien im alten Israel: Untersuchungen zu ihren religions- und theologiegeschichtlichen Konstellationen und Transformationen, reviewed by William P. Brown
• Stuart Macwilliam, Queer Theory and the Prophetic Marriage Metaphor in the Hebrew Bible, reviewed by Christine Mitchell
• Kent Aaron Reynolds, Torah as Teacher: The Exemplary Torah Student in Psalm 119, reviewed by Steven Dunn
• Thomas Römer, Dieu obscur: Cruauté, sexe et violence dans l’Ancien Testament, reviewed by Delia Klingler
• Jonathan Y. Rowe, Michal’s Moral Dilemma: A Literary, Anthropological and Ethical Interpretation, reviewed by Susanne Scholz

New Testament and Cognate Studies

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The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

• Anthony Heacock, Jonathan Loved David: Manly Love in the Bible and the Hermeneutics of Sex, reviewed by John Barclay Burns
• Maynard Paul Maidman, Nuzi Texts and Their Uses as Historical Evidence, reviewed by Ronan Head
• Thomas W. Mann, The Book of the Former Prophets, reviewed by Trent C. Butler
• David Miano, Shadow on the Steps: Time Measurement in Ancient Israel, reviewed by Spencer L. Allen
• Anathea E. Portier-Young, Apocalypse against Empire: Theologies of Resistance in Early Judaism, reviewed by Benjamin E. Reynolds and Joshua Schwartz

New Testament and Cognate Studies

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The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

• Peter Altmann, Festive Meals in Ancient Israel: Deuteronomy’s Identity Politics in Their Ancient Near Eastern Context, reviewed by Stephen A. Reed
• Martin Hallaschka, Haggai und Sacharja 1–8: Eine redaktionsgeschichtliche Untersuchung, reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer
• Tod Linafelt, Claudia V. Camp, and Timothy Beal, eds., The Fate of King David: The Past and Present of a Biblical Icon, reviewed by Ilse Muellner

New Testament and Cognate Studies

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The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

• John Goldingay, Israel’s Life (Old Testament Theology, vol. 3), reviewed by Ovidiu Creanga
• Michaėl N. van der Meer, Percy van Keulen, Wido van Peursen, Bas Ter Haar Romeny, eds., Isaiah in Context: Studies in Honour of Arie van der Kooij on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday, reviewed by Mayer Gruber

New Testament and Cognate Studies

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The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Fields

• Katharine Dell, ed., Ethical and Unethical in the Old Testament: God and Humans in Dialogue, reviewed by Walter Brueggemann
• Georg Fischer, Der Prophet wie Mose: Studien zum Jeremiabuch, reviewed by Bob Becking
• Thomas Richard Kämmerer, ed., Studien zu Ritual und Sozialgeschichte im Alten Orient/Studies on Rituals and Society in the Ancient Near East: Tartuer Symposien 1998–2004, reviewed by Gerhard Karner
• Jennifer L. Koosed, Gleaning Ruth: A Biblical Heroine and Her Afterlives, reviewed by Helen Leneman

New Testament and Cognate Fields

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The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

• Reinhard Achenbach and Martin Arneth, eds., »Gerechtigkeit und Recht zu üben« (Gen 18,19): Studien zur altorientalischen und biblischen Rechtsgeschichte, zur Religionsgeschichte Israels und zur Religionssoziologie: Festschrift für Eckart Otto zum 65. Geburtstag, reviewed by John Engle
• Blane Conklin, Oath Formulas in Biblical Hebrew, reviewed by Yael Ziegler
• Esther J. Hamori, “When Gods Were Men”: The Embodied God in Biblical and Near Eastern Literature, reviewed by Michael B. Hundley
• André LaCocque, The Captivity of Innocence: Babel and the Yahwist, reviewed by Richard S. Briggs
• Jonathan Wyn Schofer, Confronting Vulnerability: The Body and the Divine in Rabbinic Ethics, reviewed by Phillip Sherman

New Testament and Cognate Studies

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The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

New Testament and Cognate Studies

• Craig L. Blomberg, with Jennifer Foutz Markley, A Handbook of New Testament Exegesis, reviewed by Jan G. van der Watt
• Gregg Gardner and Kevin L. Osterloh, eds., Antiquity in Antiquity: Jewish and Christian Pasts in the Greco-Roman World, reviewed by Douglas Estes
• Kevin B. McCruden, Solidarity Perfected: Beneficent Christology in the Epistle to the Hebrews, reviewed by Craig R. Koester
• Gert J. Steyn and Dirk J. Human, eds., Psalms and Hebrews: Studies in Reception, reviewed by Scott D. Mackie

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

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