Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (December 22, 2012)

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies Georg Fischer and Dominik Markl, Das Buch Exodus, reviewed by Paul Sanders Peter Hon Wan Lau, Identity and Ethics in the Book of Ruth: A Social Identity Approach, reviewed by Timothy Stone Nancy C. Lee, Lyrics of Lament: From Tragedy to Transformation, reviewed by Ulrich Berges and by Leonard Mare John H. Sailhamer, The Meaning of the Pentateuch: Revelation, Composition and Interpretation, reviewed by Andrew Steinmann Simon P. Stocks, The Form and Function of the Tricolon in the Psalms of Ascents: Introducing a New Paradigm for Hebrew Poetic Line-form, reviewed by Gert T. M. Prinsloo New Testament and Cognate Studies ...

December 23, 2012 Â· 1 min Â· J. David Stark

Journal of Biblical Literature 131, no. 4

The latest issue of the Journal of Biblical Literature includes: Jonathan Kaplan, “1 Samuel 8:11-18 as ‘A Mirror for Princes’” Nizzim Amzallag and Mikhal Avriel, “The Cryptic Meaning of the Isaiah 14 Māƥāl” Mark Hamilton, “Isaiah 32 as Literature and Political Meditation” Mark Awabdy, “Yhwh Exegetes Torah: How Ezekiel 44:7–9 Bars Foreigners from the Sanctuary” Christian Stadel, “A Septuagint Translation Tradition and the Samaritan Targum to Genesis 41:43” John Meier, “The Parable of the Wheat and the Weeds (Matthew 13:24–30): Is Thomas’s Version (Logion 57) Independent?” Andrew Simmonds, “Mark’s and Matthew’s Sub Rosa Message in the Scene of Pilate and the Crowd” Matthew Rindge, “Reconfiguring the Akedah and Recasting God: Lament and Divine Abandonment in Mark” Benjamin Lappenga, “Misdirected Emulation and Paradoxical Zeal: Paul’s Redefinition of ‘The Good’ as Object of Î¶áż†Î»ÎżÏ‚ in Galatians 4:12–20” Callie Callon, “Secondary Characters Furthering Characterization: The Depiction of Slaves in the Acts of Peter”

December 13, 2012 Â· 1 min Â· J. David Stark

Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (August 9, 2012)

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include the following: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies StĂ©phanie Anthonioz, « À qui me comparerez-vous ? » (Is 40,25): La polĂ©mique contre l’idolĂątrie dans le DeutĂ©ro-IsaĂŻe, reviewed by Sven Petry Jason Bembry, Yahweh’s Coming of Age, reviewed by Johannes de Moor Francesca Stavrakopoulou, Land of Our Fathers: The Roles of Ancestor Veneration in Biblical Land Claims, reviewed by Bob Becking Michael P. Streck, Altbabylonisches Lehrbuch, reviewed by Gerhard Karner New Testament and Cognate Studies ...

August 10, 2012 Â· 1 min Â· J. David Stark