Oded Lipschits Archives – J. David Stark

Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (May 14, 2013)

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

Avraham Faust, Judah in the Neo-Babylonian Period: The Archaeology of Desolation, reviewed by Ulrich Berges
Oded Lipschits, Gary N. Knoppers, and Manfred Oeming, eds., Judah and the Judeans in the Achaemenid Period: Negotiating Identity in an International Context, reviewed by Frank H. Polak
Kathleen M. O’Connor, Jeremiah: Pain and Promise, reviewed by Bob Becking
Karin Hedner Zetterholm, Jewish Interpretation of the Bible: Ancient and Contemporary, reviewed by Marianne Grohmann and by Andrea L. Weiss

New Testament and Cognate Studies

Richard S. Ascough, Philip A. Harland, and John S. Kloppenborg, Associations in the Greco-Roman World: A Sourcebook, reviewed by Richard I. Pervo
G. K. Beale, Handbook on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament: Exegesis and Interpretation, reviewed by Maarten J. J. Menken and by Pheme Perkins
Andrew B. McGowan and Kent Harold Richards, eds., Method and Meaning: Essays on New Testament Interpretation in Honor of Harold W. Attridge, reviewed by Dennis R. MacDonald
Steve Moyise, Later New Testament Writers and Scripture: The Old Testament in Acts, Hebrews, the Catholic Epistles and Revelation, reviewed by Yongbom Lee

Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (November 15, 2012)

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Ancient Near East and Second Temple Judaism

Phillip R. Callaway, The Dead Sea Scrolls for a New Millennium, reviewed by Stephen Reed
Benedikt Eckhardt, ed., Jewish Identity and Politics between the Maccabees and Bar Kokhba: Groups, Normativity, and Rituals, reviewed by Joshua Schwartz
Oded Lipschits and David S. Vanderhooft, The Yehud Stamp Impressions: A Corpus of Inscribed Impressions from the Persian and Hellenistic Periods in Judah, reviewed by Aren Maeir
Annick Payne, Hieroglyphic Luwian: An Introduction with Original Texts, reviewed by Robert Holmstedt

New Testament and Cognate Studies

Marlene Crüsemann, Die pseudepigraphen Briefe an die Gemeinde in Thessaloniki: Studien zu ihrer Abfassung und zur jüdisch-christlichen Sozialgeschichte, reviewed by Lars Kierspel
James A. Kelhoffer, Persecution, Persuasion and Power: Readiness to Withstand Hardship as a Corroboration of Legitimacy in the New Testament, reviewed by Alexander Stewart
Dale B. Martin, New Testament History and Literature: The Open Yale Courses Series, reviewed by Cornelis Bennema
Roger Pearse, ed., Eusebius of Caesarea: Gospel Problems and Solutions, reviewed by Michael F. Bird
L. L. Welborn, An End to Enmity: Paul and the “Wrongdoer” of Second Corinthians, reviewed by B. J. Oropeza

Miscellaneous

J. W. Rogerson, An Introduction to the Bible (3rd ed), reviewed by Bob Becking

Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (July 19, 2012)

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

Lester L. Grabbe and Oded Lipschits, eds., Judah between East and West: The Transition from Persian to Greek Rule (ca. 400–200 BCE), reviewed by Joshua Schwartz
Géza G. Xeravits, ed., Dualism in Qumran, reviewed by Devorah Dimant

Miscellaneous

Eryl W. Davies, The Immoral Bible: Approaches to Biblical Ethics, reviewed by Joel Williams