Review-of-Biblical-Literature

The latest reviews in the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies Bohdan Hrobon, Ethical Dimension of Cult in the Book of Isaiah, reviewed by Wilhelm J. Wessels Richard A. Norris Jr., trans., Gregory of Nyssa: Homilies on the Song of Songs, reviewed by Mark DelCogliano Melvin K. H. Peters, ed., XIV Congress of the IOSCS, Helsinki, 2010, reviewed by Theo van der Louw Brian Neil Peterson, Ezekiel in Context: Ezekiel’s Message Understood in Its Historical Setting of Covenant Curses and Ancient Near Eastern Mythological Motifs, reviewed by Christopher Bechtel Eric A. Seibert, The Violence of Scripture: Overcoming the Old Testament’s Troubling Legacy, reviewed by J. Dwayne Howell Deuk-il Shin, The Ark of Yahweh in Redemptive History: A Revelatory Instrument of Divine Attributes, reviewed by David G. Firth Molly M. Zahn, Rethinking Rewritten Scripture: Composition and Exegesis in the 4QReworked Pentateuch Manuscripts, reviewed by Martin G. Abegg Jr. New Testament and Cognate Studies ...

The latest reviews in the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies David J. H. Beldman and Craig G. Bartholomew, eds., Hearing the Old Testament: Listening for God’s Address, reviewed by Jeanette Mathews Mark E. Biddle, Reading Judges: A Literary and Theological Commentary, reviewed by Trent C. Butler Joachim Conrad, Karl Heinrich Grafs Arbeit am Alten Testament: Studien zu einer wissenschaftlichen Biographie, reviewed by Jeffrey L. Morrow Georg Fischer, Dominik Markl, and Simone Paganini, eds., Deuteronomium: Tora für eine neue Generation, reviewed by Mark Christian Elizabeth Frood, Biographical Texts from Ramessid Egypt, reviewed by Gerald Moers Dong-Hyuk Kim, Early Biblical Hebrew, Late Biblical Hebrew, and Linguistic Variability: A Sociolinguistic Evaluation of the Linguistic Dating of Biblical Texts, reviewed by Frank H. Polak Peter Thacher Lanfer, Remembering Eden: The Reception History of Genesis 3:22–24, reviewed by L. Michael Morales David Penchansky, Understanding Wisdom Literature: Conflict and Dissonance in the Hebrew Text, reviewed by Peter Hatton Miscellaneous ...

The latest reviews in the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies Daniel Epp-Tiessen, Concerning the Prophets: True and False Prophecy in Jeremiah 23:9–29:32, reviewed by Kelvin Friebel Judith Gärtner, Die Geschichtspsalmen: Eine Studie zu den Psalmen 78, 105, 106, 135 und 136 als hermeneutische Schlüsseltexte im Psalter, reviewed by Susan Gillingham Cynthia Shafer-Elliott, Food in Ancient Judah: Domestic Cooking in the Time of the Hebrew Bible, reviewed by Stephen Reed C. Richard Wells and Ray Van Neste, eds., Forgotten Songs: Reclaiming the Psalms for Christian Worship, reviewed by Leonard P. Maré Caroline Vander Stichele and Hugh S. Pyper, eds., Text, Image, and Otherness in Children’s Bibles: What Is in the Picture?, reviewed by Gottfried Adam New Testament and Cognate Studies ...

The latest reviews in the Review of Biblical Literature include: New Testament and Cognate Studies Peter Arzt-Grabner and Christina M. Kreinecker, eds., Light from the East: Papyrologische Kommentare zum Neuen Testament. Akten des internationalen Symposions vom 3.–4. Dezember 2009 am Fachbereich Bibelwissenschaft und Kirchengeschichte der Universität Salzburg, reviewed by Scott Charlesworth Gary S. Shogren, 1 and 2 Thessalonians, reviewed by Jason Weaver Christopher W. Skinner and Kelly R. Iverson, eds., Unity and Diversity in the Gospels and Paul: Essays in Honor of Frank J. Matera, reviewed by Lars Kierspel Jean-Luc Vesco, Le Psautier de Jésus: Les citations des Psaumes dans le Nouveau Testament, reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies Mark J. Boda and J. Gordon McConville, eds., Dictionary of the Old Testament: Prophets, reviewed by Göran Eidevall Joanne Clarke, On the Margins of Southwest Asia: Cyprus during the 6th to 4th Millennia BC, reviewed by Allen Kerkeslager Mark W. Elliott, Engaging Leviticus: Reading Leviticus Theologically with Its Past Interpreters, reviewed by Bálint Károly Zabán Judy Fentress-Williams, Ruth, reviewed by Peter H. W. Lau Erhard S. Gerstenberger, Israel in the Persian Period: The Fifth and Fourth Centuries B.C.E., reviewed by Jason Silverman Caryn A. Reeder, The Enemy in the Household: Family Violence in Deuteronomy and Beyond, reviewed by Sung Jin Park New Testament and Cognate Studies ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies Mersha Alehegne, The Ethiopian Commentary on the Book of Genesis: Critical Edition and Translation, reviewed by James C. VanderKam Daniel E. Fleming, The Legacy of Israel in Judah’s Bible: History, Politics, and the Reinscribing of Tradition, reviewed by Yitzhaq Feder and by Frank H. Polak Mark Leuchter and Jeremy M. Hutton, eds., Levites and Priests in Biblical History and Tradition, reviewed by Pekka Pitkanen Tremper Longman III, Job, reviewed by Michael Collender Christian Metzenthin, Jesaja-Auslegung in Qumran, reviewed by Paul Sanders Mark R. Sneed, The Politics of Pessimism in Ecclesiastes: A Social-Science Perspective, reviewed by Martin A. Shields New Testament and Cognate Studies ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies Naftali S. Cohn, The Memory of the Temple and the Making of the Rabbis, reviewed by Joshua Schwartz David Emanuel, From Bards to Biblical Exegetes: A Close Reading and Intertextual Analysis of Selected Exodus Psalms, reviewed by David G. Firth Saul M. Olyan, ed., Social Theory and the Study of Israelite Religion: Essays in Retrospect and Prospects, reviewed by Bob Becking and by Aren M. Maeir Jacques Vermeylen, Les Prophètes de la Bible et la fin des temps: XXIIIe congrès de l’Asssociation catholique française pour l’étude de la Bible (Lille, 24–27 août 2009), reviewed by Daniel Timmer New Testament and Cognate Studies ...

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 ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies Lawrence Boadt, Reading the Old Testament: An Introduction, edited by Richard Clifford and Daniel Harrington, reviewed by Sarah Ward Yoram Hazony, The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture, reviewed by Steven Dunn Otto Kaiser, Gott, Mensch und Geschichte: Studien zum Verständnis des Menschen und seiner Geschichte in der klassischen, biblischen und nachbiblischen Literatur, reviewed by Hans Dieter Betz Swift Edgar, ed., The Vulgate Bible, Volume 2: The Historical Books, reviewed by Ralph K. Hawkins Zipora Talshir, ed., Israel and Its Land: Inscriptions and History: Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of Shmuel Ahituv on the Occasion of His Retirement [Hebrew], reviewed by Aren M. Maeir General Biblical and Cognate Studies ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies Victor H. Matthews, The Hebrew Prophets and Their Social World: An Introduction, reviewed by Aren M. Maeir and by Stewart Moore Jonathan T. Pennington, Reading the Gospels Wisely: A Narrative and Theological Introduction, reviewed by Joel B. Green Iain Provan and Mark J. Boda, eds., Let Us Go Up to Zion: Essays in Honour of H. G. M. Williamson on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday, reviewed by Keith Bodner David T. Runia and Gregory E. Sterling, eds., Studia Philonica Annual XXIV, 2012, reviewed by Scott Mackie Philippe Wajdenbaum, Argonauts of the Desert: Structural Analysis of the Hebrew Bible, reviewed by Casper J. Labuschagne New Testament and Cognate Studies ...

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 ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies Philip R. Davies and Diana Vikander Edelman, eds., The Historian and the Bible: Essays in Honour of Lester L. Grabbe, reviewed by George C. Heider Robert Gnuse, No Tolerance for Tyrants: The Biblical Assault on Kings and Kingship, reviewed by James M. Bos New Testament and Cognate Studies ...

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 ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies Keith Bodner, Jeroboam’s Royal Drama, reviewed by Mark McEntire Erhard S. Gerstenberger, Israel in the Persian Period: The Fifth and Fourth Centuries B.C.E., reviewed by John Engle Edwin M. Good, Genesis 1–11: Tales of the Earliest World, reviewed by Brian D. Russell Michelle J. Levine, Nahmanides on Genesis: The Art of Biblical Portraiture, reviewed by George Savran Emily Teeter, Religion and Ritual in Ancient Egypt, reviewed by Michael B. Hundley New Testament and Cognate Studies ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies Ulrich Berges, Jesaja: Der Prophet und Das Buch, reviewed by Francis Landy William G. Dever, The Lives of Ordinary People in Ancient Israel: Where Archaeology and the Bible Intersect, reviewed by Diana Edelman and by Aren M. Maeir Siegfried Kreuzer, Martin Meiser, and Marcus Sigismund, eds., Die Septuaginta: Entstehung, Sprache, Geschichte. 3. Internationale Fachtagung veranstaltet von Septuaginta Deutsch (LXX.D), Wuppertal 22.-25. Juli 2010, reviewed by Hans Förster Lisa M. Wolfe, Ruth, Esther, Song of Songs, and Judith, reviewed by L. Juliana Claassens New Testament and Cognate Studies ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies Melissa A. Jackson, Comedy and Feminist Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible: A Subversive Collaboration, reviewed by Kathryn D. Blanchard Tremper Longman III, Introducing the Old Testament: A Short Guide to Its History and Message, reviewed by Trent Butler James D. Nogalski, The Book of the Twelve: Hosea–Jonah, reviewed by Beth Stovell Kathleen M. Rochester, Prophetic Ministry in Jeremiah and Ezekiel, reviewed by Wilhelm J. Wessels New Testament and Cognate Studies ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies Yoram Cohen, The Scribes and Scholars of the City of Emar in the Late Bronze Age, reviewed by Bryan C. Babcock Urmas Nømmik, Die Freundesreden des ursprünglichen Hiobdialogs: Eine form- und traditionsgeschichtliche Studie, reviewed by Kyle C. Dunham Kathleen M. O’Connor, Jeremiah: Pain and Promise, reviewed by Wilhelm J. Wessels Moshe Simon-Shoshan, Stories of the Law: Narrative Discourse and the Construction of Authority in the Mishnah, reviewed by Joshua Schwartz Assaf Yasur-Landau, Jennie R. Ebeling, and Laura B. Mazow, eds., Household Archaeology in Ancient Israel and Beyond, reviewed by Ralph K. Hawkins New Testament and Cognate Studies ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: New Testament and Cognate Studies Martin Bauspieß, Geschichte und Erkenntnis im lukanischen Doppelwerk: Eine exegetische Untersuchung zu einer christlichen Perspektive auf Geschichte, reviewed by Nils Neumann Darrell L. Bock, A Theology of Luke and Acts: God’s Promised Program, Realized for All Nations, reviewed by Ulrich Busse Daniel Durken, ed., The New Collegeville Bible Commentary: New Testament, reviewed by Ernest Van Eck Lars Hartman, Mark for the Nations: A Text- and Reader-Oriented Commentary, reviewed by Robert M. Fowler Rainer Metzner, Kaiphas: Der Hohepriester jenes Jahres: Geschichte und Deutung, reviewed by Thomas Bergholz Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies Francis Landy, Hosea, reviewed by Gert T. M. Prinsloo Angela R. Roskop, The Wilderness Itineraries: Genre, Geography, and the Growth of Torah, reviewed by Nathan MacDonald Mark R. Sneed, The Politics of Pessimism in Ecclesiastes: A Social-Science Perspective, reviewed by Robert Williamson Jr. New Testament and Cognate Studies ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies Michael Avioz, “I Sat Alone”: Jeremiah among the Prophets, reviewed by Wilhelm Wessels Steed Vernyl Davidson, Empire and Exile: Postcolonial Readings of the Book of Jeremiah, reviewed by Bob Becking Joëlle Ferry, Isaïe: “Comme les mots d’un livre scellé”, reviewed by Wilson de Angelo Cunha Jean-Daniel Macchi, Christophe Nihan, Thomas Römer, and Jan Rückl, eds., Les recueils prophétiques de la Bible: Origines, milieux, et contexte proche-oriental, reviewed by James M. Bos Shalom M. Paul, Isaiah 40–66: Translation and Commentary, reviewed by Roy E. Gane Deborah W. Rooke, Handel’s Israelite Oratorio Libretti: Sacred Drama and Biblical Exegesis, reviewed by Helen Leneman Robb Andrew Young, Hezekiah in History and Tradition, reviewed by Ibolya Balla New Testament and Cognate Studies ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies Katharine J. Dell, Brian A. Mastin, and James K. Aitken, eds., On Stone and Scroll: Essays in Honour of Graham Ivor Davies, reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer Matthew R. Schlimm, From Fratricide to Forgiveness: The Language and Ethics of Anger in Genesis, reviewed by Phillip Sherman New Testament and Cognate Studies ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies Eberhard Bons and Jans Joosten, eds., Septuagint Vocabulary: Pre-history, Usage, Reception, reviewed by Francis Dalrymple-Hamilton and by Daniel M. O’Hare Deborah O’Daniel Cantrell, The Horsemen of Israel: Horses and Chariotry in Monarchic Israel, reviewed by Raz Kletter Peter Enns, Ecclesiastes, reviewed by Gert T. M. Prinsloo New Testament and Cognate Studies ...

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 ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies Moshe Bar-Asher and Devorah Dimant, eds., Meghillot [Hebrew]: Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls, VIII-IX, reviewed by George Brooke Abigail Pelham, Contested Creations in the Book of Job: The-World-as-It-Ought- and-Ought-Not-to-Be, reviewed by Norman Habel Beat Weber, Werkbuch Psalmen III: Theologie und Spiritualität des Psalters und seiner Psalmen, reviewed by Mark Elliott Ina Willi-Plein, Das Buch Genesis: Kapitel 12-50, reviewed by Wolfgang Zwickel New Testament and Cognate Studies ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies John Barton, The Theology of the Book of Amos, reviewed by Tyler Mayfield and by Heinz-Dieter Neef Keith Bodner, Jeroboam’s Royal Drama, reviewed by Matthew Suriano Michael D. Coogan and Mark S. Smith, eds., Stories from Ancient Canaan (2nd ed.), reviewed by Henk Potgieter Frank Lothar Hossfeld and Eric Zenger, A Commentary on Psalms 101–150 (Psalms, vol. 3), reviewed by Thomas Kraus Alice L. Laffey, First and Second Kings, reviewed by Ginny Brewer-Boydston New Testament and Cognate Studies ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies A. Graeme Auld, First and Second Samuel: A Commentary, reviewed by Phillip G. Camp Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum, Margarete van Ess, and Joachim Marzahn, eds., Babylon: Wissenskultur in Orient und Okzident, reviewed by Michael S. Moore Alan T. Levenson, The Making of the Modern Jewish Bible: How Scholars in Germany, Israel, and America Transformed an Ancient Text, reviewed by George Savran Hans-Peter Mathys, Das Astarte-Quadrat, reviewed by Sven Petry Vincent Sénéchal, Rétribution et intercession dans le Deutéronome, reviewed by Paul Sanders Marvin A. Sweeney, Tanak: A Theological and Critical Introduction to the Jewish Bible, reviewed by Jason M. Silverman New Testament and Cognate Studies ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies Giovanni Garbini, Letteratura e politica nell’Israele antico, reviewed by Dempsey Rosales Acosta Benno Jacob, The First Book of the Bible: Genesis (augmented edition), edited by Ernest Jacob and Walter Jacob, reviewed by Joel S. Baden Dale Launderville, Celibacy in the Ancient World: Its Ideal and Practice in Pre-Hellenistic Israel, Mesopotamia, and Greece, reviewed by Pancratius C. Beentjes Erle Leichty, The Royal Inscriptions of Esarhaddon, King of Assyria (680–669 BC), reviewed by Paul Sanders Lauren A. S. Monroe, Josiah’s Reform and the Dynamics of Defilement: Israelite Rites of Violence and the Making of a Biblical Text, reviewed by Ovidiu Creanga Randall Heskett and Brian P. Irwin, eds., The Bible as a Human Witness to Divine Revelation: Hearing the Word of God through Historically Dissimilar Traditions, reviewed by S. D. Giere New Testament and Cognate Studies ...

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 ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies Victor P. Hamilton, Exodus: An Exegetical Commentary, reviewed by Brian D. Russell Matthias Henze, ed., A Companion to Biblical Interpretation in Early Judaism, reviewed by Lester Grabbe Sara M. Koenig, Isn’t This Bathsheba? A Study in Characterization, reviewed by Rachelle Gilmour Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Z. Brettler, The Jewish Annotated New Testament, reviewed by Zev Garber New Testament and Cognate Studies ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: New Testament and Cognate Studies Jo-Ann A. Brant, John, reviewed by Matthew Gordley Bart B. Bruehler, A Public and Political Christ: The Social-Spatial Characteristics of Luke 18:35–19:43 and the Gospel as a Whole in Its Ancient Context, reviewed by John Cowan Jaime Clark-Soles, Engaging the Word: The New Testament and the Christian Believer, reviewed by Ronald Witherup Gerald J. Donker, The Text of the Apostolos in Athanasius of Alexandria, reviewed by Justin A. Mihoc Craig A. Evans, Jesus and His World: The Archaeological Evidence, reviewed by Panayotis Coutsoumpos Charles W. Hedrick, Unlocking the Secrets of the Gospel according to Thomas: A Radical Faith for a New Age, reviewed by William Arnal Josep Rius-Camps and Jenny Read-Heimerdinger, The Message of Acts in Codex Bezae: A Comparison with the Alexandrian Tradition, Volume 4: Acts 18.24–28.31: Rome, reviewed by Vaughn CroweTipton Christopher D. Stanley, ed., The Colonized Apostle: Paul in Postcolonial Eyes, reviewed by Steed Davidson Second Temple Judaism ...