Tag: Jewish Scriptures

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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

• Kevin Corrigan and John D. Turner, eds., History and Interpretation from the Old Academy to Later Platonism and Gnosticism (Plato’s Parmenides and Its Heritage, vol. 1), reviewed by Thomas P. Nelligan
• Kevin Corrigan and John D. Turner, eds., Reception in Patristic, Gnostic, and Christian Neoplatonic Texts (Plato’s Parmenides and Its Heritage, vol. 2), reviewed by Thomas P. Nelligan
• Tom Holmén, ed., Jesus in Continuum, reviewed by Sarah E. Rollens
• Joseph A. Marchal, ed., Studying Paul’s Letters: Contemporary Perspectives and Methods, reviewed by Brian J. Robinson
• Ian Paul and David Wenham, eds., Preaching the New Testament, reviewed by Jay Harrington
• Eckhard J. Schnabel, Acts, reviewed by Daniel L. Smith

Hermeneutics

• Hans Ausloos and Bénédicte Lemmelijn, The Book of Life: Biblical Answers to Existential Questions, reviewed by Jordan M. Scheetz

March 20

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

• Francis A. Dalrymple-Hamilton, Breaking Through the Massoretic Barrier: A Re-consideration of the Old Greek Text of Job 24:13–20; 26:4–14; 28:13–22 and 30:25–31:8, reviewed by Claude Cox
• Ronald Hendel, The Book of Genesis: A Biography, reviewed by Bradford A. Anderson and by Bill T. Arnold
• Corrado Martone, Lettere di Bar Kokhba, reviewed by Andrea Ravasco
• Jeanette Mathews, Performing Habakkuk: Faithful Re-enactment in the Midst of Crisis, reviewed by Gert T. M. Prinsloo
• Matthew Neujahr, Predicting the Past in the Ancient Near East: Mantic Historiography in Ancient Mesopotamia, Judah, and the Mediterranean World, reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer
• Richard A. Norris Jr, Gregory of Nyssa: Homilies on the Song of Songs, reviewed by Frank England

New Testament and Cognate Studies

• George T. Montague, First Corinthians, reviewed by H. H. Drake Williams III
• Bob Robinson, Jesus and the Religions: Retrieving a Neglected Example for a Multi-cultural World, reviewed by Ann Marie Bahr

Hermeneutics

• Marc Zvi Brettler, Peter Enns, and Daniel J. Harrington, The Bible and the Believer: How to Read the Bible Critically and Religiously, reviewed by Rob Van Houwelingen
• Deryn Guest, Beyond Feminist Biblical Studies, reviewed by Amelia Freedman
• Colleen Shantz and Rodney A. Werline, eds., Experientia, Volume 2: Linking Text and Experience, reviewed by Andrew R. Guffey

March 26

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

• Mark J. Boda and Lissa M. Wray Beal, eds., Prophets, Prophecy, and Ancient Israelite Historiography, reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer
• Walter Brueggemann, The Practice of Prophetic Imagination: Preaching an Emancipating Word, reviewed by Ron Clark
• Ron Clark, The God of Second Chances: Finding Hope through the Prophets of Exile, reviewed by Gerda de Villiers
• Paul L. Redditt, Zechariah 9–14, reviewed by Ralph K. Hawkins
• Joseph Verheyden, ed., The Figure of Solomon in Jewish, Christian and Islamic Tradition: King, Sage and Architect, reviewed by Anthony Swindell

New Testament and Cognate Studies

• Constantine R. Campbell, Paul and Union with Christ: An Exegetical and Theological Study, reviewed by Jonathon Lookadoo
• Zeba A. Crook, Parallel Gospels: A Synopsis of Early Christian Writing, reviewed by Thomas Bergholz
• J. K. Elliott, New Testament Textual Criticism: The Application of Thoroughgoing Principles, reviewed by Daniel B. Wallace
• Jeffrey S. Lamp, The Greening of Hebrews?: Ecological Readings in the Letter to the Hebrews, reviewed by Amy L. B. Peeler
• Helen Rhee, Loving the Poor, Saving the Rich: Wealth, Poverty, and Early Christian Formation, reviewed by Michael S. Moore

April 4

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

• Angelika Berlejung and Michael P. Streck, eds., Arameans, Chaldeans, and Arabs in Babylonia and Palestine in the First Millennium B.C., reviewed by John MacGinnis
• James M. Bos, Reconsidering the Date and Provenance of the Book of Hosea: The Case for Persian-Period Yehud, reviewed by Pamela J. Scalise
• Sebastian Fuhrmann and Regina Grundmann, eds., Martyriumsvorstellungen in Antike und Mittelalter: Leben oder sterben für Gott?, reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus
• Mercedes L. García Bachmann, Women at Work in the Deuteronomistic History, reviewed by Ralph K. Hawkins
• Dominik Markl, ed., The Decalogue and Its Cultural Influence, reviewed by Bernhard Lang
• David T. Runia and Gregory E. Sterling, eds., Studia Philonica Annual: Studies in Hellenistic Judaism, Volume XXII, 2010, reviewed by John Martens

New Testament and Cognate Studies

• David Alan Black, Paul, Apostle of Weakness: Astheneia and Its Cognates in the Pauline Literature, reviewed by H. H. Drake Williams III
• Kyoung-Shik Kim, God Will Judge Each One according to Works: Judgment according to Works and Psalm 62 in Early Judaism and the New Testament, reviewed by Travis B. Williams

Hermeneutics

• J. Scott Duvall and J. Daniel Hays, Grasping God’s Word: A Hands-On Approach to Reading, Interpreting, and Applying the Bible, reviewed by Frank England
• Joel B. Green, ed., Dictionary of Scripture and Ethics, reviewed by Kevin Jung

April 10

New Testament and Cognate Studies

• Herbert W. Bateman, Charts on the Book of Hebrews, reviewed by Philip Church
• C. Clifton Black, The Disciples according to Mark: Markan Redaction in Current Debate, reviewed by Michael Kok
• Israel Kamudzandu, Abraham Our Father: Paul and the Ancestors in Postcolonial Africa, reviewed by David M. Crump and by Daniel Darko
• Nicola Denzey Lewis, Cosmology and Fate in Gnosticism and Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Under Pitiless Skies, reviewed by Timothy Pettipiece
• Eric M. Meyers and Mark A. Chancey, Alexander to Constantine: Archaeology of the Land of the Bible, reviewed by Lee M. Jefferson
• Lorne R. Zelyck, John among the Other Gospels: The Reception of the Fourth Gospel in the Extra-canonical Gospels, reviewed by Jason Sturdevant

Miscellaneous

• Michaela Bauks, Wayne Horowitz, and Armin Lange, eds., Between Text and Text: The Hermeneutics of Intertextuality in Ancient Cultures and Their Afterlife in Medieval and Modern Times, reviewed by Geoffrey Miller
• Gerald Hammond and Austin Busch, eds., The English Bible, King James Version: The New Testament and the Apocrypha, reviewed by Stephen Pattemore
• Andrei A. Orlov and Gabriele Boccaccini, eds., New Perspectives on 2 Enoch: No Longer Slavonic Only, reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus

April 15

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

• Rainer Albertz and Rüdiger Schmitt, Family and Household Religion in Ancient Israel and the Levant, reviewed by Raz Kletter
• James Bollhagen, Ecclesiastes, reviewed by Bálint Károly Zabán
• Peter W. Flint, Jean Duhaime, and Kyung S. Baek, eds., Celebrating the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Canadian Collection, reviewed by David M. Maas
• Mark Leuchter and Jeremy M. Hutton, eds., Levites and Priests in Biblical History and Tradition, reviewed by Ralph K. Hawkins
• Ellen A. Robbins, The Storyteller and the Garden of Eden, reviewed by Gert T. M. Prinsloo
• Zoltán S. Schwáb, Toward an Interpretation of the Book of Proverbs: Selfishness and Secularity Reconsidered, reviewed by David Penchansky
• Jakob Wöhrle, Fremdlinge im eigenen Land: Zur Entstehung und Intention der priesterlichen Passagen der Vätergeschichte, reviewed by Marc Vervenne

New Testament and Cognate Studies

• Didier Lafleur, La Famille 13 dans l’evangile de Marc, reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus
• Gunnar Samuelsson, Crucifixion in Antiquity: An Inquiry into the Background and Significance of the New Testament Terminology of Crucifixion, reviewed by John Granger Cook

Hermeneutics

• Edith M. Humphrey, Scripture and Tradition: What the Bible Really Says, reviewed by Nijay Gupta

April 24

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

• Alinda Damsma, The Targumic Toseftot to Ezekiel, reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer
• Jan P. Fokkelman, The Book of Job in Form: A Literary Translation with Commentary, reviewed by Roger Marcel Wanke
• Grenville J. R. Kent, Say It Again, Sam: A Literary and Filmic Study of Narrative Repetition in 1 Samuel 28, reviewed by D. Lowdermilk

New Testament and Cognate Studies

• Zeba A. Crook, Parallel Gospels: A Synopsis of Early Christian Writing, reviewed by Mark Goodacre and with further interaction posted at The Busybody
• Arthur J. Dewey, Roy W. Hoover, Lane C. McGaughy, and Daryl D. Schmidt, The Authentic Letters of Paul: A New Reading of Paul’s Rhetoric and Meaning, reviewed by Nijay Gupta
• André Gagné and Jean-François Racine, eds., En marge du canon: Études sur les écrits apocryphes juifs et chrétiens, reviewed by Boris Paschke
• Andrew David Naselli, From Typology to Doxology: Paul’s Use of Isaiah and Job in Romans 11:34–35, reviewed by Robert Foster
• Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts, eds., Christian Origins and Hellenistic Judaism: Social and Literary Contexts for the New Testament, reviewed by Gerbern S. Oegema

Miscellaneous

• Lee Martin McDonald, The Origin of the Bible: A Guide For the Perplexed, reviewed by Stephen Reed
• Karl-Gustav Sandelin, Attraction and Danger of Alien Religion: Studies in Early Judaism and Christianity, reviewed by Erich S. Gruen

May 2

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

• Katherine M. Hayes, Proverbs, reviewed by Bálint Károly Zabán
• Jerry Hwang, The Rhetoric of Remembrance: An Investigation of the “Fathers” in Deuteronomy, reviewed by Joel Barker
• Ann E. Killebrew and Gunnar Lehmann, eds., The Philistines and Other “Sea Peoples” in Text and Archaeology, reviewed by Ralph K. Hawkins and by Raz Kletter
• Dina Stein, Textual Mirrors: Reflexivity, Midrash, and the Rabbinic Self, reviewed by Simon Lasair

New Testament and Cognate Studies

• Mary Ann Beavis, Mark, reviewed by Jeff Jay
• Paul S. Jeon, To Exhort and Reprove: Audience Response to the Chiastic Structures of Paul’s Letter to Titus, reviewed by David P. Parris
• Yung Suk Kim, ed., 1 and 2 Corinthians, reviewed by H. H. Drake Williams III
• Timothy Michael Law, When God Spoke Greek: The Septuagint and the Making of the Christian Bible, reviewed by Martin Rösel
• Travis B. Williams, Persecution in 1 Peter: Differentiating and Contextualizing Early Christian Suffering, reviewed by Torrey Seland