Review-of-Biblical-Literature

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Fields

• Walter Brueggemann, An Unsettling God: The Heart of the Hebrew Bible, reviewed by Eric A. Seibert
• Erasmus Gaß, Die Moabiter: Geschichte und Kultur eines ostjordanischen Volkes im 1. Jahrtausend v. Chr., reviewed by Sven Petry
• Sarah Lebhar Hall, Conquering Character: The Characterization of Joshua in Joshua 1-11, reviewed by Anton Cuffari
• Michaela Hallermayer, Text und Überlieferung des Buches Tobit, reviewed by Bradley Gregory

New Testament and Cognate Fields

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Biblical Theology and Cognate Fields

• Hector Avalos, Sarah Melcher, and Jeremy Schipper, eds., This Abled Body: Rethinking Disabilities in Biblical Studies, reviewed by William R. G. Loader
• Roland Boer, Political Myth: On the Use and Abuse of Biblical Themes, reviewed by Gilbert Lozano
• Joel S. Kaminsky, Yet I Loved Jacob: Reclaiming the Biblical Concept of Election, reviewed by Hallvard Hagelia
• Robin Routledge, Old Testament Theology: A Thematic Approach, reviewed by Don Collett

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Fields

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

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Fields

• Steven L. Bridge, Getting the Old Testament: What It Meant to Them, What It Means for Us, reviewed by Robert Wallace
• Robert R. Cargill, Qumran through (Real) Time: A Virtual Reconstruction of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, reviewed by Eibert Tigchelaar
• Greg Schmidt Goering, Wisdom’s Root Revealed: Ben Sira and the Election of Israel, reviewed by Ibolya Balla
• Bernd Janowski, Bernhard Greiner, and Hermann Lichtenberger, eds., Opfere deinen Sohn! Das ‘Isaak-Opfer’ in Judentum, Christentum und Islam, reviewed by Paul Sanders
• Edith Lubetski and Meir Lubetski, eds., The Book of Esther: A Classified Bibliography, reviewed by Mayer I. Gruber
• Nathan MacDonald, What Did the Ancient Israelites Eat? Diet in Biblical Times, reviewed by Raz Kletter
• Mark S. Smith and Wayne T. Pitard, The Ugaritic Baal Cycle: Volume 2: Introduction with Text, Translation and Commentary of KTU/CAT 1.3–1.4, reviewed by Frank H. Polak
• Roger E. Van Harn and Brent A. Strawn, Psalms for Preaching and Worship: A Lectionary Commentary, reviewed by Hallvard Hagelia

New Testament and Cognate Fields

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

New Testament and Cognate Fields

• Paul Barnett, Finding the Historical Christ: After Jesus, Volume 3, reviewed by Matthew Recla
• David W. Chapman, Ancient Jewish and Christian Perceptions of Crucifixion, reviewed by John T. Carroll
• Gordon D. Fee, The First and Second Letters to the Thessalonians, reviewed by James W. Aageson
• Edna Johnson, A Semantic and Structural Analysis of Ephesians, reviewed by Timothy Gombis
• Brigitte Kahl, Galatians Re-imagined: Reading with the Eyes of the Vanquished, reviewed by Vernon K. Robbins

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Fields

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New Testament and Cognate Fields

• Willis Barnstone, The Restored New Testament: A New Translation with Commentary, Including the Gnostic Gospels Thomas, Mary, and Judas, reviewed by Sean Kealy
• James G. Crossley, Jesus in an Age of Terror: Scholarly Projects for a New American Century, reviewed by William Arnal
• Richard A. Horsley, Wisdom and Spiritual Transcendence at Corinth: Studies in First Corinthians, reviewed by L. L. Welborn
• Jerome H. Neyrey, The Gospel of John in Cultural and Rhetorical Perspective, reviewed by Steven Hunt

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Fields

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New Testament and Cognate Fields

• Kenneth E. Bailey, The Cross and the Prodigal: Luke 15 through the Eyes of Middle Eastern Peasants, reviewed by Robert O’Toole
• Brendan Byrne, A Costly Freedom: A Theological Reading of Mark’s Gospel, reviewed by Sean Kealy
• Stanley E. Porter and Mark J. Boda, eds., Translating the New Testament: Text, Translation, Theology, reviewed by Douglas Moo

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Fields

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

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Fields

• Elizabeth Boase, The Fulfilment of Doom? The Dialogic Interaction between the Book of Lamentations and the Pre-exilic/Early Exilic Prophetic Literature, reviewed by Charles Miller
• Jo Carruthers, Esther through the Centuries, reviewed by Linda Day and reviewed by Timothy Laniak
• Mark K. George, Israel’s Tabernacle as Social Space, reviewed by Gert Prinsloo
• John Oswalt, The Bible among the Myths: Unique Revelation or Just Ancient Literature?, reviewed by Claude Mariottini
• Tessa Rajak, Translation and Survival: The Greek Bible and the Ancient Jewish Diaspora, reviewed by Christopher Beetham

Hermeneutics

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

New Testament and Cognate Fields

• Peter Brown, The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity (Twentieth Anniversary Edition with a New Introduction), reviewed by Richard Valantasis
• Kate Cooper and Julia Hillner, eds., Religion, Dynasty, and Patronage in Early Christian Rome, 300–900, reviewed by Ilaria Ramelli
• April D. DeConick, The Original Gospel of Thomas in Translation: With a Commentary and New English Translation of the Complete Gospel , reviewed by Stephen Patterson
• David A. deSilva, Seeing Things John’s Way: The Rhetoric of the Book of Revelation, reviewed by Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
• Terence L. Donaldson, Judaism and the Gentiles: Jewish Patterns of Universalism (to 135 CE) , reviewed by Joshua Schwartz
• Michael Philip Penn, Kissing Christians: Ritual and Community in the Late Ancient Church,reviewed by Candida Moss
• Stanley E. Porter, ed., Paul: Jew, Greek, and Roman, reviewed by Christoph Stenschke
• Turid Karlsen Seim and Jorunn Økland, eds., Metamorphoses: Resurrection, Body and Transformative Practices in Early Christianity , reviewed by V. Henry Nguyen
• Magnus Zetterholm, Approaches to Paul: A Student’s Guide to Recent Scholarship, reviewed by Nijay Gupta

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Fields

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

New Testament and Cognate Fields

• François Bovon, L’Evangile selon saint Luc 19,28–24,53, reviewed by Richard I. Pervo
• Jean-Marie van Cangh, Les sources Judaïques du nouveau testament: Recueil d’essais, reviewed by Peter Tomson
• Pamela Eisenbaum, Paul Was Not a Christian: The Original Message of a Misunderstood Apostle, reviewed by Yung Suk Kim
• Lee Martin McDonald, Forgotten Scriptures: The Selection and Rejection of Early Religious Writings, reviewed by Francis Dalrymple-Hamilton
• Paul Middleton, Angus Paddison, and Karen Wenell, eds., Paul, Grace and Freedom: Essays in Honour of John K. Riches, reviewed by Michael J. Lakey
• Mogens Müller, The Expression ‘Son of Man’ and the Development of Christology: A History of Interpretation, reviewed by Rollin Kearns
• C. Kavin Rowe, World Upside Down: Reading Acts in the Graeco-Roman Age, reviewed by V. Henry Nguyen
• Alexander Tsutserov, Glory, Grace, and Truth: Ratification of the Sinaitic Covenant according to the Gospel of John, reviewed by Christopher W. Skinner

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Fields

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

New Testament and Cognate Fields

• John Fleter Tipei, The Laying on of Hands in the New Testament: Its Significance, Techniques, and Effects, reviewed by Everett Ferguson
• Chris A. Vlachos, The Law and the Knowledge of Good and Evil: The Edenic Background of the Catalytic Operation of the Law in Paul, reviewed by James M. Howard
• Magnus Zetterholm, Approaches to Paul: A Student’s Guide to Recent Scholarship, reviewed by David G. Horrell

Hermeneutics

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

New Testament and Cognate Fields

• Michael F. Bird, Introducing Paul: The Man, His Mission and His Message, reviewed by Tony Costa
• Delbert Burkett, The Unity and Plurality of Q (Rethinking the Gospel Sources, Volume 2), reviewed by Tobias Hagerland
• Greg Carey, Sinners: Jesus and His Earliest Followers, reviewed by Burgert De Wet
• Andrie Du Toit, edited by Cilliers Breytenbach and David S. Du Toit, Focusing on Paul: Persuasion and Theological Design in Romans and Galatians, reviewed by Sheila E. McGinn
• Carole R. Fontaine, With Eyes of Flesh: The Bible, Gender and Human Rights, reviewed by Robin Gallaher Branch
• J. R. Daniel Kirk, Unlocking Romans: Resurrection and the Justification of God, reviewed by Jens Herzer
• Kenneth L. Schenck, Cosmology and Eschatology in Hebrews: The Settings of the Sacrifice, reviewed by Thomas Kraus
• Gerhard Sellin, Der Brief an die Epheser, reviewed by Angela Standhartinger
• Edna Ullmann-Margalit, Out of the Cave: A Philosophical Inquiry into the Dead Sea Scrolls Research, reviewed by Samuel Thomas

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Fields

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

New Testament and Cognate Fields

• Jonathan Knight, Christian Origins, reviewed by Markus Oehler
• Kasper Bro Larsen, Recognizing the Stranger: Recognition Scenes in the Gospel of John, reviewed by Dorothy Lee
• Ramsay MacMullen, The Second Church: Popular Christianity A.D. 200–400, reviewed by Charles Bobertz
• John P. Meier, A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus (Volume 4: Law and Love), reviewed by Susan Graham
• Stanley E. Porter and Wendy J. Porter, eds., New Testament Greek Papyri and Parchments: New Editions: Texts and Plates, reviewed by Thomas Kraus
• Loren Stuckenbruck, 1 Enoch 91–108, reviewed by Archie T. Wright
• Jerry L. Sumney, Colossians: A Commentary, reviewed by Angela Standhartinger

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Fields

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

New Testament and Cognate Fields

• Roger S. Bagnall, Early Christian Books in Egypt, reviewed by Larry Hurtado
• Adam H. Becker and Annette Yoshiko Reed, eds., The Ways That Never Parted: Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, reviewed by Chad Spigel
• James H. Charlesworth, The Earliest Christian Hymnbook: The Odes of Solomon, reviewed by Michael Lattke
• Robert Goldenberg, The Origins of Judaism: From Canaan to the Rise of Islam, reviewed by Lester L. Grabbe
• Michael J. Gorman, Inhabiting the Cruciform God: Kenosis, Justification, and Theosis in Paul’s Narrative Soteriology, reviewed by Sigurd Grindheim
• Larry R. Helyer, The Witness of Jesus, Paul and John: An Exploration in Biblical Theology, reviewed by Petrus Grabe
• James Allen Hewett, New Testament Greek: A Beginning and Intermediate Grammar, reviewed by Laurence Vance
• Konrad Huber and Boris Repschinski, eds., Im Geist und in der Wahrheit: Studien zum Johannesevangelium und zur Offenbarung des Johannes sowie andere Beiträge. Festschrift für Martin Hasitschka SJ zum 65. Geburtstag, reviewed by Michael Labahn
• Adam Kamesar, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Philo, reviewed by Torrey Seland
• Robert Kugler and Patrick Hartin, An Introduction to the Bible, reviewed by Pieter Venter
• Hermann von Lips, Timotheus und Titus: Unterwegs für Paulus, reviewed by Korinna Zamfir
• Eduard Lohse, Das Urchristentum: Ein Rückblick auf die Anfänge, reviewed by Markus Oehler
• Stuart L. Love, Jesus and Marginal Women: The Gospel of Matthew in Social-Scientific Perspective, reviewed by Esther A. de Boer
• Douglas J. Moo, The Letters to the Colossians and to Philemon, reviewed by Christopher Beetham
• Osvaldo Padilla, The Speeches of Outsiders in Acts: Poetics, Theology and Historiography, reviewed by Deborah Thompson Prince
• Chantal Reynier, Saint Paul sur les routes du monde romain: Infrastructures, logistique, itinéraires, reviewed by Michel Gourgues
• Tom Thatcher, Greater than Caesar: Christology and Empire in the Fourth Gospel, reviewed by Benjamin Reynolds
• Fabian Udoh, ed., Redefining First-Century Jewish and Christian Identities: Essays in Honor of Ed Parish Sanders, reviewed by Joshua Schwartz
• Tor Vegge, Paulus und das antike Schulwesen: Schule und Bildung des Paulus, reviewed by Jens Herzer
• N. T. Wright, Justification: God’s Plan and Paul’s Vision, reviewed by V. George Shillington

Hermeneutics and Cognate Fields

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The latest, New Year’s Eve, reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include the following:

New Testament and Cognate Fields

• Christopher A. Beetham, Echoes of Scripture in the Letter of Paul to the Colossians, reviewed by Maarten J. J. Menken
• Craig L. Blomberg and Mariam J. Kamell, James, reviewed by Wesley Wachob
• Renate Banschbach Eggen, Gleichnis, Allegorie, Metapher: Zur Theorie und Praxis der Gleichnisauslegung, reviewed by John S. Kloppenborg
• Gabriella Gelardini, “Verhärtet eure Herzen nicht”: Der Hebräer, eine Synagogenhomilie zu Tischa be-Aw, reviewed by Carl Mosser
• François Genuyt, L’Épître aux Romains: L’instauration du sujet-Lecture sémiotique, reviewed by Jean-Paul Michaud
• Christopher Gilbert, A Complete Introduction to the Bible, reviewed by Dirk G. van der Merwe
• Judith Hartenstein, Charakterisierung im Dialog: Maria Magdalena, Petrus, Thomas und die Mutter Jesu im Johannesevangelium im Kontext anderer frühchristlicher Darstellungen, reviewed by Ismo Dunderberg
• Adam Kamesar, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Philo, reviewed by Gregory Sterling
• Patricia Walters, The Assumed Authorial Unity of Luke and Acts: A Reassessment of the Evidence, reviewed by Joel B. Green and Richard I. Pervo

Hermeneutics and Translation

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

New Testament and Cognate Studies

• Margaret P. Aymer, First Pure, Then Peaceable: Frederick Douglass Reads James, reviewed by Wesley Wachob
• Michael F. Bird and James G. Crossley, How Did Christianity Begin? A Believer and Non-believer Examine the Evidence, reviewed by Leif Vaage
• John Byron, Recent Research on Paul and Slavery, reviewed by Lars Kierspel
• Carl P. Cosaert, The Text of the Gospels in Clement of Alexandria, reviewed by Michael Bird
• Jesús Luzarraga, El Evangelio de Juan en las versiones siríacas, reviewed by Ilaria L. E. Ramelli
• James F. McGrath, The Only True God: Early Christian Monotheism in Its Jewish Context, reviewed by Lori Baron

Hermeneutics and Cognate Fields

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

New Testament and Cognate Studies

• Susan R. Garrett, No Ordinary Angel: Celestial Spirits and Christian Claims about Jesus, reviewed by Tobias Nicklas
• Beverly Roberts Gaventa, Our Mother Saint Paul, reviewed by Pamela Eisenbaum
• James M. Howard, Paul, the Community, and Progressive Sanctification: An Exploration into Community-Based Transformation within Pauline Theology, reviewed by Ron Clark
• Jeremy F. Hultin, The Ethics of Obscene Speech in Early Christianity and Its Environment, reviewed by Stephan Witetschek
• Christine E. Joynes, ed., Perspectives on the Passion: Encountering the Bible through the Arts, reviewed by Christopher Rowland
• Steve Mason, Josephus, Judea, and Christian Origins: Methods and Categories, reviewed by Sean Freyne
• Tim Newton, The Forgotten Gospels: Life and Teachings of Jesus Supplementary to the New Testament: A New Translation, reviewed by Thomas Bergholz
• Maria-Zoe Petropoulou, Animal Sacrifice in Ancient Greek Religion, Judaism, and Christianity, 100 BC to AD 200, reviewed by Adele Reinhartz
• John F. A. Sawyer, A Concise Dictionary of the Bible and Its Reception, reviewed by C. L. Seow
• Gerhard H. Visscher, Romans 4 and the New Perspective on Paul: Faith Embraces the Promise, reviewed by Don Garlington
• Dawn Ottoni Wilhelm, Preaching the Gospel of Mark: Proclaiming the Power of God, reviewed by Antipas L. Harris

Jewish Scripture and Cognate Studies

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

New Testament and Cognate Studies

• Brevard Childs, The Church’s Guide for Reading Paul: The Canonical Shaping of the Pauline Corpus, reviewed by Paul E. Trainor
• Desta Heliso, Pistis and the Righteous One: A Study of Romans 1:17 against the Background of Scripture and Second Temple Jewish Literature, reviewed by Lars Kierspel
• Martin Mosse, The Three Gospels: New Testament History Introduced by the Synoptic Problem, reviewed by Pheme Perkins
• Charles Puskas, The Conclusion of Luke-Acts: The Significance of Acts 28:16–31, reviewed by Deborah Thompson Prince
• Huub van de Sandt and Jürgen Zangenberg, eds., Matthew, James, and Didache: Three Related Documents in Their Jewish and Christian Settings, reviewed by William Varner
• Robert Stein, Mark, reviewed by Joel F. Williams
• Alan Thompson, One Lord, One People: The Unity of the Church in Acts in Its Literary Setting, reviewed by Bobby Kelly

Jewish Scripture and Cognate Studies

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

New Testament and Cognate Studies

• Lars Aejmelaeus and Antti Mustakallio, eds., The Nordic Paul: Finnish Approaches to Pauline Theology, reviewed by Erik Heen
• Dietrich-Alex Koch, Hellenistisches Christentum: Schriftverständnis-Ekklesiologie-Geschichte, reviewed by Friedrich Reiterer
• M. Sydney Park, Submission within the Godhead and the Church in the Epistle to the Philippians: An Exegetical and Theological Examination of the Concept of Submission in Philippians 2 and 3, reviewed by Mark A. Jennings
• Jonathan T. Pennington and Sean M. McDonough, Cosmology and New Testament Theology, reviewed by Michael J. Lakey
• Enno Edzard Popkes, Die Theologie der Liebe Gottes in den johanneischen Schriften: Zur Semantik der Liebe und zum Motivkreis des Dualismus, reviewed by Jan G. van der Watt
• Jens Schröter, Von Jesus zum Neuen Testament: Studien zur urchristlichen Theologiegeschichte und zur Entstehung des neutestamentlichen Kanons, reviewed by Nils Neumann
• David Sim and Boris Repschinski, eds., Matthew and His Christian Contemporaries, reviewed by Glenna Jackson
• Lawrence M. Wills, Not God’s People: Insiders and Outsiders in the Biblical World, reviewed by Lara van der Zee-Hanssen

Other Fields

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

New Testament and Cognate Studies

• L. Stephanie Cobb, Dying to Be Men: Gender and Language in Early Christian Martyr Texts, reviewed by Jan Willem van Henten
• J. Edward Crowley and Paul L. Danove, The Rhetoric of Characterization of God, Jesus, and Jesus’ Disciples in the Gospel of Mark, reviewed by Seán P. Kealy
• F. Gerald Downing, God with Everything: The Divine in the Discourse of the First Christian Century, reviewed by Michael Lakey
• Joseph A. Fitzmyer, A Guide to the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature, reviewed by Shayna Sheinfeld
• Matthew J. Marohl, Faithfulness and the Purpose of Hebrews: A Social Identity Approach, reviewed by Renate Viveen Hood
• Etienne Nodet, The Historical Jesus? Necessity and Limits of an Inquiry, reviewed by James West
• Ilaria Ramelli and David Konstan, Terms for Eternity: Aiônios and Aïdios in Classical and Christian Texts, reviewed by Jan G. van der Watt
• Kevin J. Vanhoozer, ed., Theological Interpretation of the New Testament: A Book-by-Book Survey, reviewed by Erik Heen

Hermeneutics

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

New Testament and Cognate Studies

• Dan R. Stiver, Life Together in the Way of Jesus Christ: An Introduction to Christian Theology, reviewed by Yolanda Dreyer
• James M. Robinson, Jesus: According to the Earliest Witness, reviewed by Petri Luomanen
• Marvin Meyer, Judas: The Definitive Collection of Gospels and Legends about the Infamous Apostle of Jesus, reviewed by Philip Tite
• Andrew T. Lincoln and Angus Paddison, eds., Christology and Scripture: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, reviewed by Douglas Campbell
• Heidi J. Hornik and Mikeal C. Parsons, Illuminating Luke, Volume 3: The Passion and Resurrection Narratives in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Painting, reviewed by Thomas E. Phillips
• Axel Graupner and Michael Wolter, eds., Moses in Biblical and Extra-biblical Traditions, reviewed by Hallvard Hagelia
• Beverly Roberts Gaventa and Richard B. Hays, eds., Seeking the Identity of Jesus: A Pilgrimage, reviewed by Mark Elliott
• Daniel Durken, ed., The New Collegeville Bible Commentary: New Testament, reviewed by Peter Judge
• Lawrence DiPaolo Jr., Hymn Fragments Embedded in the New Testament: Hellenistic Jewish and Greco-Roman Parallels, reviewed by Daniel Darko
• Augustine Casiday and Frederick W. Norris, The Cambridge History of Christianity, Volume 2: Constantine to c. 600, reviewed by Paul Dilley
• Richard Bauckham, The Jewish World around the New Testament: Collected Essays 1, reviewed by Christoph Stenschke
• Octavian D. Baban, On the Road Encounters in Luke-Acts: Hellenistic Mimesis and Luke’s Theology of the Way, reviewed by Ron Clark

Other Fields

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