Tag: Second Temple Judaism

  • In the (e)mail: Boccaccini and Segovia, “Paul the Jew”

    In my email recently, I found Fortress Press had kindly provided a review copy of Gabriele Boccaccini and Carlos Segovia’s edited volume Paul the Jew: Rereading the Apostle as a Figure of Second Temple Judaism (2016). According to the book’s blurb: The decades-long effort to understand the apostle Paul within his Jewish context is now firmly established in…

  • RevQ Articles

    Charles Haws notes that Revue de Qumrân now has a website. In commemoration of the website’s launch about a dozen articles have been made openly available.

  • Lexham Bible Dictionary Updates

    Lexham Bible Dictionary now includes among its entries my contributions on “Aquila,” “Emesa,” “Israel, Place,” and “Law in Second Temple Judaism.” Connections can read these contributions via my LinkedIn page under “Publications.”

  • Sacred Texts and Paradigmatic Revolutions

    The latest Bloomsbury Highlights notes the newly available volume 16 in the T&T Clark Jewish and Christian Texts Series. The volume is a revision of my 2011 dissertation at Southeastern Seminary and primarily explores paradigmatic, or presuppositional, aspects of the hermeneutics at play in Romans and some of the Qumran sectarian texts. Bloomsbury presently has the…

  • On the Web (April 15, 2013)

    On the web: Logos Bible Software adds select works of C. K. Barrett and the Justification and Variegated Nomism set to their pre-publication  program. Lawrence Schiffman considers Jubilees’ rationale for Torah’s commandments. J.-L. Simonet comments on what may be some newly-identified lectionary leaves. Tommy Wasserman notes the forthcoming Biblia Graeca from Eisenbrauns.

  • 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…