Tanakh Archives – J. David Stark

Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (July 14, 2014)

The latest reviews in the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

Richard J. Clifford, Wisdom, reviewed by Lawrence M. Wills
David J. A. Clines and J. Cheryl Exum, eds., The Reception of the Hebrew Bible in the Septuagint and the New Testament: Essays in Memory of Aileen Guilding, reviewed by Benjamin J. M. Johnson
Joan E. Cook, Genesis, reviewed by Jonathan L. Huddleston
Avraham Faust, Judah in the Neo-Babylonian Period: The Archaeology of Desolation, reviewed by Gert T. M. Prinsloo
James E. Harding, The Love of David and Jonathan: Ideology, Text, Reception, reviewed by Katherine Low
Irene Nowell, Numbers, reviewed by Timothy R. Ashley
Naomi Steinberg, The World of the Child in the Hebrew Bible, reviewed by Karin Finsterbusch

New Testament and Cognate Studies

Thomas L. Brodie, Beyond the Quest for the Historical Jesus: Memoir of a Discovery, reviewed by Benjamin I. Simpson
Charles E. Hill and Michael J. Kruger, eds., The Early Text of the New Testament, reviewed by Amy M. Donaldson
Joshua Marshall Strahan, The Limits of a Text: Luke 23:34a as a Case Study in Theological Interpretation, reviewed by Claire Clivaz

Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (July 3, 2014)

The latest reviews in the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

Tremper Longman III, Job, reviewed by Richard G. Smith
Donald P. Moffat, Ezra’s Social Drama: Identity Formation, Marriage and Social Conflict in Ezra 9 and 10, reviewed by Hannah K. Harrington
Daniel C. Owens, Portraits of the Righteous in the Psalms: An Exploration of the Ethics of Book I, reviewed by Beat Weber
Franz Sedlmeier, Das Buch Ezechiel: Kapitel 25-48, reviewed by Michael S. Moore
Stefan Seiler, Text-Beziehungen: Zur intertextuellen Interpretation alttestamentlicher Texte am Beispiel ausgewählter Psalmen, reviewed by Gert T. M. Prinsloo

New Testament and Cognate Studies

Harold W. Attridge, The Acts of Thomas, reviewed by James F. McGrath
George E. Demacopoulos, The Invention of Peter: Apostolic Discourse and Papal Authority in Late Antiquity, reviewed by Matthew R. Crawford
Eric J. Gilchrest, Revelation 21–22 in Light of Jewish and Greco-Roman Utopianism, reviewed by Thomas Hieke
Daniel Patte and Cristina Grenholm, eds., Modern Interpretations of Romans: Tracking Their Hermeneutical/Theological Trajectory, reviewed by I. Howard Marshall

Miscellaneous

Katie B. Edwards, Admen and Eve: The Bible in Contemporary Advertising, reviewed by Cynthia M. Baker

Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (June 27, 2014)

The latest reviews in the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

Peter Enns, The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible Does and Doesn’t Say about Human Origins, reviewed by Paul Korchin
Kai Kaniuth et al., eds., Tempel im Alten Orient, reviewed by Jason M. Silverman
Christoph Körner and Hans-Winfried Jüngling, eds., “…denn das ist der ganze Mensch”: Jüdische Feste: Kohelet, Ester, Hoheslied, Rut, Klagelieder, reviewed by Andreas Lehnardt
Michael Pietsch, Die Kultreform Josias: Studien zur Religionsgeschichte Israels in der späten Königszeit, reviewed by Peter Porzig

New Testament and Cognate Studies

Wm. Randolph Bynum, The Fourth Gospel and the Scriptures: Illuminating the Form and Meaning of Scriptural Citation in John 19:37, reviewed by Justin Langford
István Czachesz, The Grotesque Body in Early Christian Discourse: Hell, Scatology and Metamorphosis, reviewed by Jesse Rainbow
Bart D. Ehrman and Michael W. Holmes, eds., The Text of the New Testament in Contemporary Research: Essays on the Status Quaestionis. Second Edition, reviewed by Larry W. Hurtado
Zbyněk Garský, Das Wirken Jesu in Galiläa bei Johannes: Eine strukturale Analyse der Intertextualität des vierten Evangeliums mit den Synoptikern, reviewed by Jeffrey M. Tripp
Gonzalo Haya-Prats; Paul Elbert, ed., Empowered Believers: The Holy Spirit in the Book of Acts, reviewed by Ron Clark
Michael Wheeler, St John and the Victorians, reviewed by Judith Lieu

Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (June 20, 2014)

The latest reviews in the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

William Goodman, Yearning for You: Psalms and the Song of Songs in Conversation with Rock and Worship Songs, reviewed by T. Michael W. Halcomb
David Weiss Halivni, The Formation of the Babylonian Talmud, reviewed by Joshua Ezra Burns
Isaac Kalimi, ed., Jewish Bible Theology: Perspectives and Case Studies, reviewed by Ginny Brewer-Boydston
Vita Daphna Arbel, Forming Femininity in Antiquity: Eve, Gender, and Ideologies in the Greek Life of Adam and Eve, reviewed by F. Scott Spencer
Víctor Morla, Los manuscritos hebreos de Ben Sira: Traducción y notas, reviewed by Nuria Calduch-Benages
Peter W. Flint, The Dead Sea Scrolls, reviewed by George J. Brooke

New Testament and Cognate Studies

Walter A. Elwell and Robert W. Yarbrough, Encountering the New Testament: A Historical and Theological Survey, reviewed by Abson Joseph
Robin M. Jensen, Baptismal Imagery in Early Christianity: Ritual, Visual, and Theological Dimensions, reviewed by Denis Fortin
William Loader, Making Sense of Sex: Attitudes Towards Sexuality in Early Jewish and Christian Literature, reviewed by Michael Rosenberg

Miscellaneous

James Carleton Paget and Joachim Schaper, eds., The New Cambridge History of the Bible: From the Beginnings to 600, reviewed by J. Christopher Edwards

Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (June 13, 2014)

The latest reviews in the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

Jenny R. Labendz, Socratic Torah: Non-Jews in Rabbinic Intellectual Culture, reviewed by Joshua Schwartz
Thomas L. Thompson, Biblical Narrative and Palestine’s History: Changing Perspectives 2, reviewed by Ralph K. Hawkins

New Testament and Cognate Studies

Bruce W. Longenecker, Hearing the Silence: Jesus on the Edge and God in the Gap—Luke 4 in Narrative Perspective, reviewed by Dieter T. Roth
Timothy Milinovich, Beyond What Is Written: The Performative Structure of 1 Corinthians, reviewed by Matthew R. Malcolm
Joel B. Green and Lee Martin McDonald, eds., The World of the New Testament: Cultural, Social, and Historical Contexts, reviewed by John J. Pilch
Ekkehard W. Stegemann; Christina Tuor and Peter Wick, eds., Der Römerbrief: Brennpunkte der Rezeption, reviewed by Oda Wischmeyer

Miscellaneous

Marielle Frigge, Beginning Biblical Studies, reviewed by Markus Lang
Jill Middlemas, David J. A. Clines, and Else K. Holt, eds., The Centre and the Periphery: A European Tribute to Walter Brueggemann, reviewed by Chadwick Eggleston
Eileen M. Schuller and Carol A. Newsom, The Hodayot (Thanksgiving Psalms): A Study Edition of 1QHa, reviewed by Philippus J. Botha
Caroline Vander Stichele and Hugh S. Pyper, eds., Text, Image, and Otherness in Children’s Bibles: What Is in the Picture?, reviewed by David R. Jackson