Walter Brueggemann Archives

Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (9 March 2015)

The 9 March 2015 newsletter for the Review of Biblical Literature noted reviews of:

Olivier Artus, Loi et Justice dans la Littérature du Proche-Orient ancien, reviewed by Michael S. Moore
Gary M. Beckman, Trevor R. Bryce, and Eric H. Cline, The Ahhiyawa Texts, reviewed by Aren M. Maeir
Keith Bodner, Elisha’s Profile in the Book of Kings: The Double Agent, reviewed by Gerhard Karner
Walter Brueggemann, Reality, Grief, Hope: Three Urgent Prophetic Tasks, reviewed by LeAnn Snow Flesher
Katharine J. Dell, Interpreting Ecclesiastes: Readers Old and New, reviewed by Mark Sneed
Robert Geis, Exegesis and the Synoptics, reviewed by Jeffrey Paul García
Wilfred J. Harrington, Reading Mark for the First Time, reviewed by Jeff Jay
Thomas R. Hatina, New Testament Theology and its Quest for Relevance: Ancient Texts and Modern Readers, reviewed by Gary M. Burge
John Huehnergard, An Introduction to Ugaritic, reviewed by Philip C. Schmitz
Hans Leander, Discourses of Empire: The Gospel of Mark from a Postcolonial Perspective, reviewed by Angela N. Parker
M. David Litwa, Iesus Deus: The Early Christian Depiction of Jesus as a Mediterranean God, reviewed by Joseph Verheyden
Siobhan Dowling Long, The Sacrifice of Isaac: The Reception of a Biblical Story in Music, reviewed by Deborah W. Rooke
Scot McKnight and Joseph B. Modica, eds., Jesus Is Lord, Caesar Is Not: Evaluating Empire in New Testament Studies, reviewed by Russell Morton
Sarah J. K. Pearce, The Words of Moses: Studies in the Reception of Deuteronomy in the Second Temple Period, reviewed by Sven Petry
Kenneth C. Way, Donkeys in the Biblical World: Ceremony and Symbol, reviewed by Brent Strawn

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

Brueggeman, Spirituality of the Psalms

The June free book of the month seems already to be live on the Logos Bible Software website. The included text is Walter Brueggemann’s Spirituality of the Psalms (Fortress, 2001). The optional, $0.99 add on is Brueggemmann’s David’s Truth: In Israel’s Imagination and Memory (Fortress, 2002).

Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (October 4, 2013)

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

Ulrich F. Berges, Isaiah: The Prophet and his Book, reviewed by Marvin A. Sweeney
Daniel E. Fleming, The Legacy of Israel in Judah’s Bible: History, Politics, and the Reinscribing of Tradition, reviewed by Matthew Suriano
Theresa V. Lafferty, The Prophetic Critique of the Priority of the Cult: A Study of Amos 5:21–24 and Isaiah 1:10–17, reviewed by Alphonso Groenewald
Matthew Neujahr, Predicting the Past in the Ancient Near East: Mantic Historiography in Ancient Mesopotamia, Judah, and the Mediterranean World, reviewed by Gerhard Karner
Georg A. Walser, Jeremiah: A Commentary based on Ieremias in Codex Vaticanus, reviewed by Michael Graves
Walter Brueggemann, Truth Speaks to Power: The Countercultural Nature of Scripture, reviewed by Gerrie Snyman

New Testament and Cognate Studies

Matthew V. Johnson, James A. Noel, and Demetrius K. Williams, eds., Onesimus Our Brother: Reading Religion, Race, and Culture in Philemon, reviewed by Emilia Zamfir
M. David Litwa, We Are Being Transformed: Deification in Paul’s Soteriology, reviewed by Tony Costa
Candida Moss, The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom, reviewed by N. Clayton Croy
Rick F. Talbott, Jesus, Paul, and Power: Rhetoric, Ritual, and Metaphor in Ancient Mediterranean Christianity, reviewed by Jan Willem van Henten

Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (April 15, 2013)

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

Gary M. Beckman, Trevor R. Bryce, and Eric H. Cline, The Ahhiyawa Texts, reviewed by Paul Sanders
Walter Brueggemann, David and His Theologian: Literary, Social, and Theological Investigations of the Early Monarchy, reviewed by Andrea Ravasco
James L. Crenshaw, Reading Job: A Literary and Theological Commentary, reviewed by Norman Habel
Jonathan Grossman, Esther: The Outer Narrative and the Hidden Reading, reviewed by Kelly A. Whitcomb
Irene Schulmeister, Israels Befreiung aus Ägypten: Eine Formeluntersuchung zur Theologie des Deuteronomiums, reviewed by Peter Porzig

New Testament and Cognate Studies

Thomas R. Schreiner, Luke Timothy Johnson, Douglas A. Campbell, and Mark D. Nanos, Four Views on the Apostle Paul, edited by Michael F. Bird, reviewed by Arthur J. Dewey
Markus Bockmuehl, Simon Peter in Scripture and Memory: The New Testament Apostle in the Early Church, reviewed by Finn Damgaard
William Loader, The New Testament on Sexuality, reviewed by Colleen M. Conway

Miscellaneous

George W. E. Nickelsburg and Michael E. Stone, eds., Early Judaism: Text and Documents on Faith and Piety, reviewed by David M. Maas
John J. Pilch, A Cultural Handbook to the Bible, reviewed by Jeremiah W. Cataldo

Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (March 25, 2013)

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

John E. Anderson, Jacob and the Divine Trickster: A Theology of Deception and Yhwh’s Fidelity to the Ancestral Promise in the Jacob Cycle, reviewed by Koog P. Hong
Frank Lothar Hossfeld and Eric Zenger, Psalms 3: A Commentary on Psalms 101–150, reviewed by Leonard P. Maré
Pirjo Lapinkivi, The Neo-Assyrian Myth of Istar’s Descent and Resurrection, reviewed by James R. Getz Jr.
Jordan M. Scheetz, The Concept of Canonical Intertextuality and the Book of Daniel, reviewed by Philippus J. Botha and by Don Collett
Janet Smith, Dust or Dew: Immortality in the Ancient Near East and in Psalm 49, reviewed by Ilaria L. E. Ramelli

New Testament and Cognate Studies

Wali van Lohuizen, A Psycho-Spiritual View on the Message of Jesus in the Gospels: Presence and Transformation in Some Logia as a Sign of Mysticism, reviewed by John DelHousaye
B. H. McLean, New Testament Greek: An Introduction, reviewed by Hennie Stander
Walter Brueggemann, Disruptive Grace: Reflections on God, Scripture, and the Church, edited by Carolyn J. Sharp, reviewed by S. D. Giere
Susan Sorek, Remembered for Good: A Jewish Benefaction System in Ancient Palestine, reviewed by Carrie Elaine Duncan