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The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Fields Michael Avioz, “I Sat Alone”: Jeremiah among the Prophets, reviewed by Jerry Hwang Anthony J. Frendo, Pre-exilic Israel, the Hebrew Bible, and Archaeology: Integrating Text and Artefact, reviewed by Ralph K. Hawkins Giovanni Garbini, Introduzione all’ epigrafia semitica, reviewed by André Lemaire Manfred Görg, Mythos und Mythologie: Studien zur Religionsgeschichte und Theologie, reviewed by Mark W. Hamilton Paul M. Joyce and Andrew Mein, eds., After Ezekiel: Essays on the Reception of a Difficult Prophet, reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer Megan Bishop Moore and Brad E. Kelle, Biblical History and Israel’s Past: The Changing Study of the Bible and History, reviewed by Bob Becking Marti J. Steussy, Samuel and His God, reviewed by Johannes Klein New Testament and Cognate Fields ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies J. Andrew Dearman, The Book of Hosea, reviewed by Heinz-Dieter Neef Károly Dániel Dobos and Miklós Köszeghy, eds., With Wisdom as a Robe: Qumran and Other Jewish Studies in Honour of Ida Fröhlich, reviewed by Korinna Zamfir Bruce Louden, Homer’s Odyssey and the Near East, reviewed by Charles L. Echols Jason Radine, The Book of Amos in Emergent Judah, reviewed by Daniel C. Timmer Shemaryahu Talmon, Text and Canon of the Hebrew Bible, reviewed by August H. Konkel William A. Tooman and Michael A. Lyons, eds., Transforming Visions: Transformations of Text, Tradition, and Theology in Ezekiel, reviewed by William R. Osborne New Testament and Cognate Studies ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Fields Daniel Bodi, The Demise of the Warlord: A New Look at the David Story, reviewed by Jeremy Hutton Hemchand Gossai, Power and Marginality in the Abraham Narrative, reviewed by Thomas Hieke André Lemaire, ed., Congress Volume: Ljubljana 2007, reviewed by Siegfried Kreuzer Herbert Migsch, Studien zum Jeremiabuch und andere Beiträge zum Alten Testament, reviewed by Hannes Bezzel Carolyn J. Sharp, Wrestling the Word: The Hebrew Scriptures and the Christian Believer, reviewed by Phillip G. Camp Matthew A. Thomas, These Are the Generations: Identity, Covenant, and the ’toledot’ Formula, reviewed by Mark McEntire Eugene Ulrich and Peter W. Flint, Qumran Cave 1.II: The Isaiah Scrolls, reviewed by Eibert Tigchelaar New Testament and Cognate Fields ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Fields Joseph Blenkinsopp, Creation, Un-creation, Re-creation: A Discursive Commentary on Genesis 1–11, reviewed by John E. Anderson Yoram Cohen, Amir Gilan, and Jared L. Miller, eds., Pax Hethitica: Studies on the Hittites and Their Neighbours in Honour of Itamar Singer, reviewed by Paul Sanders Ronald Hendel, ed., Reading Genesis: Ten Methods, reviewed by Frank H. Polak Amanda H. Podany, Brotherhood of Kings: How International Relations Shaped the Ancient Near East, reviewed by Bertrand Lafont Hayim Tawil, An Akkadian Lexical Companion for Biblical Hebrew: Etymological-Semantic and Idiomatic Equivalents with Supplement on Biblical Aramaic, reviewed by Aaron D. Rubin New Testament and Cognate Fields ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Fields William P. Brown, Psalms, reviewed by Harry P. Nasuti A. R. Pete Diamond and Louis Stulman, eds., Jeremiah (Dis)Placed: New Directions in Writing/Reading Jeremiah, reviewed by Michael Avioz Rolf A. Jacobson, ed., Soundings in the Theology of Psalms: Perspectives and Methods in Contemporary Scholarship, reviewed by Jeffery M. Leonard J. Randall Short, The Surprising Election and Confirmation of King David, reviewed by David G. Firth New Testament and Cognate Fields ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies Adina Moshavi, Word Order in the Biblical Hebrew Finite Clause, reviewed by Hubert James Keener Louis Stulman and Hyun Chul Paul Kim, You Are My People: An Introduction to Prophetic Literature, reviewed by Steed Vernyl Davidson Contextual Studies ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies Katharine Dell, ed., Ethical and Unethical in the Old Testament: God and Humans in Dialogue, reviewed by Walter C. Kaiser Jr. Bo Isaksson, ed., Circumstantial Qualifiers in Semitic: The Case of Arabic and Hebrew, reviewed by John Kaltner Robin A. Parry, Lamentations, reviewed by Timothy J. Stone Géza G. Xeravits and József Zsengellér, eds., Studies in the Book of Wisdom, reviewed by Erik Eynikel New Testament and Cognate Studies ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies John Gray, The Book of Job, reviewed by Norman Habel Robert J. V. Hiebert, “Translation Is Required”: The Septuagint in Retrospect and Prospect, reviewed by Karen Jobes Harald Knobloch, Die nachexilische Prophetentheorie des Jeremiabuches, reviewed by Christl M. Maier Hindy Najman, Past Renewals: Interpretative Authority, Renewed Revelation and the Quest for Perfection in Jewish Antiquity, reviewed by Marius Nel New Testament and Cognate Studies ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scripture and Cognate Fields Jacob Howland, Plato and the Talmud, reviewed by Alan Avery-Peck Jeremy M. Hutton, The Transjordanian Palimpsest: The Overwritten Texts of Personal Exile and Transformation in the Deuteronomistic History, reviewed by Walter Dietrich Thomas Kazen, Issues of Impurity in Early Judaism, reviewed by John W. Fadden Eric D. Reymond, New Idioms within Old: Poetry and Parallelism in the Non-Masoretic Poems of 11Q5 (=11QPsa), reviewed by John Engle and James A. Sanders New Testament and Cognate Fields ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scripture and Cognate Fields David A. Bernat, Sign of the Covenant: Circumcision in the Priestly Tradition, reviewed by Ulrich Zimmermann Job Y. Jindo, Biblical Metaphor Reconsidered: A Cognitive Approach to Poetic Prophecy in Jeremiah 1–24, reviewed by Colin Toffelmire Yelena Kolyada, A Compendium of Musical Instruments and Instrumental Terminology in the Bible, reviewed by Helen Leneman T. M. Lemos, Marriage Gifts and Social Change in Ancient Palestine: 1200 BCE to 200 CE, reviewed by Marianne Blickenstaff Anwar Tjen, On Conditionals in the Greek Pentateuch: A Study of Translation Syntax, reviewed by Randall Gauthier New Testament and Cognate Fields ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies A. Graeme Auld and Erik Eynikel, eds., For and against David: Story and History in the Books of Samuel, reviewed by Frank H. Polak Christa Schäfer-Lichtenberger, ed., Die Samuelbücher und die Deuteronomisten, reviewed by Graeme Auld New Testament and Cognate Studies ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: New Testament and Cognate Fields David Brakke, The Gnostics: Myth, Ritual, and Diversity in Early Christianity, reviewed by James F. McGrath Mark Andrew Brighton, The Sicarii in Josephus’s Judean War: Rhetorical Analysis and Historical Observations, reviewed by Catherine Jones Jean Delorme and Isabelle Donegani, L’Apocalypse de Jean: Révélation pour le temps de la violence et du désir, reviewed by Nils Neumann and Stephan Witetschek Ian J. Elmer, Paul, Jerusalem and the Judaisers: The Galatian Crisis in Its Broadest Historical Context, reviewed by Davina C. Lopez André Myre, Pour l’avenir du monde: La résurrection revisitée, reviewed by Jeffrey F. Cayzer Randall W. Reed, A Clash of Ideologies: Marxism, Liberation Theology, and Apocalypticism in New Testament Studies, reviewed by Leif E. Vaage Hal Taussig, In the Beginning Was the Meal: Social Experimentation and Early Christian Identity, reviewed by Pieter J. J. Botha General Biblical Studies ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Fields James W. Hardin, Lahav II: Households and the Use of Domestic Space at Iron II Tell Halif: An Archaeology of Destruction, reviewed by Raz Kletter New Testament and Cognate Fields Michael R. Cosby, Apostle on the Edge: An Inductive Approach to Paul, reviewed by James M. Howard Jeffrey A. Gibbs, Matthew 11:2–20:34, reviewed by Warren Carter Scot McKnight, The Letter of James, reviewed by Alicia J. Batten David F. Watson, Honor among Christians: The Cultural Key to the Messianic Secret, reviewed by Adam Winn General Biblical Studies and Cognate Fields ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies Joshua Blau, Phonology and Morphology of Biblical Hebrew: An Introduction, reviewed by Jeremy M. Hutton Daniel C. Snell, Religions of the Ancient Near East, 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 Ehud Ben Zvi and Diana V. Edelman, eds., The Production of Prophecy: Constructing Prophecy and Prophets in Yehud, reviewed by Bob Becking Joel M. LeMon, Yahweh’s Winged Form in the Psalms: Exploring Congruent Iconography and Texts, reviewed by Jeremy M. Hutton Daniel O’Hare, “Have You Seen, Son of Man?”: A Study of the Translation and Vorlage of LXX Ezekiel 40–48, reviewed by Francis Dalrymple-Hamilton New Testament and Cognate Studies ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: New Testament and Cognate Studies Cornelis Bennema, Encountering Jesus: Character Studies in the Gospel of John, reviewed by Nijay K. Gupta Troels Engberg-Pedersen, Cosmology and Self in the Apostle Paul: The Material Spirit, reviewed by Kevin McCruden John Paul Heil, Colossians: Encouragement to Walk in All Wisdom as Holy Ones in Christ, reviewed by Rodrigo J. Morales Heikki Räisänen, The Rise of Christian Beliefs: The Thought World of Early Christians, reviewed by Gosnell Yorke Robert Titley, A Poetic Discontent: Austin Farrer and the Gospel of Mark, reviewed by Mark A. Matson Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies Scott A. Ellington, Risking Truth: Reshaping the World through Prayers of Lament, reviewed by Philip E. Satterthwaite Andreas Hahn, Canon Hebraeorum-Canon Ecclesiae: Zur deuterokanonischen Frage im Rahmen der Begründung alttestamentlicher Schriftkanonizität in neuerer römisch-katholischer Dogmatik, reviewed by Mark Elliott Michael G. Wechsler, ed., The Arabic Translation and Commentary of Yefet ben ‘Eli the Karaite on the Book of Esther: Edition, Translation, and Introduction, reviewed by John Kaltner Timothy M. Willis, Leviticus, reviewed by Christophe Nihan New Testament and Cognate Studies ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies Alejandro F. Botta, The Aramaic and Egyptian Legal Traditions at Elephantine: An Egyptological Approach, reviewed by Aaron Koller Eric M. Meyers and Paul V. M. Flesher, eds., Aramaic in Postbiblical Judaism and Early Christianity: Papers from the 2004 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar at Duke University, reviewed by John Engle Dvora E. Weisberg, Levirate Marriage and the Family in Ancient Judaism, reviewed by Obiorah Mary Jerome New Testament and Cognate Studies ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: New Testament and Cognate Studies James K. Beilby and Paul Rhodes Eddy, eds., The Historical Jesus: Five Views, reviewed by Pieter F. Craffert Jeremy Corley, ed., New Perspectives on the Nativity, reviewed by Mark R. C. Grundeken Laura Nasrallah and Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, eds., Prejudice and Christian Beginnings: Investigating Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in Early Christianity, reviewed by Hal Taussig Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies John J. Ahn and Stephen L. Cook, eds., Thus Says the Lord: Essays on the Former and Latter Prophets in Honor of Robert R. Wilson, reviewed by Edgar W. Conrad Scott N. Callaham, Modality and the Biblical Hebrew Infinitive Absolute, reviewed by Brian L. Webster Jurrien Mol, Collective and Individual Responsibility: A Description of Corporate Personality in Ezekiel 18 and 20, reviewed by Karin Schöpflin Susanne Scholz, Sacred Witness: Rape in the Hebrew Bible, reviewed by Eve Levavi Feinstein and Agnethe Siquans J. Randall Short, The Surprising Election and Confirmation of King David, reviewed by Steven L. McKenzie New Testament and Cognate Studies ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies Ehud Ben Zvi and James D. Nogalski, Two Sides of a Coin: Juxtaposing Views on Interpreting the Book of the Twelve/the Twelve Prophetic Books, reviewed by Marvin A. Sweeney Katell Berthelot, Thierry Legrand, and André Paul, eds., Torah: Genèse, reviewed by Kristin De Troyer Paul D. Korchin, Markedness in Canaanite and Hebrew Verbs, reviewed by John Lubbe Jürg Luchsinger, Poetik der alttestamentlichen Spruchweisheit, reviewed by James Alfred Loader New Testament and Cognate Studies ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies Jeffrey Boss, Human Consciousness of God in the Book of Job: A Theological and Psychological Commentary, reviewed by William J. Kynes Sidney Greidanus, Preaching Christ from Ecclesiastes: Foundations for Expository Sermons, reviewed by Jordan M. Scheetz T. M. Lemos, Marriage Gifts and Social Change in Ancient Palestine: 1200 BCE to 200 CE, reviewed by Anselm C. Hagedorn Horst Seebass, Genesis I: Urgeschichte (1,1–11,26), reviewed by John Engle N. Wyatt, The Archaeology of Myth: Papers on Old Testament Tradition, reviewed by Uwe F. W. Bauer New Testament and Cognate Studies ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies Daphna Arbel, J. R. C. Cousland, and Dietmar Neufeld, “And So They Went Out”: The Lives of Adam and Eve as Cultural Transformative Story, reviewed by Deborah Rooke Ehud Ben Zvi, Diana Edelman, and Frank Polak, eds., A Palimpsest: Rhetoric, Ideology, Stylistics, and Language Relating to Persian Israel, reviewed by Bob Becking Horace D. Hummel, Ezekiel 21–48, reviewed by Ralph K. Hawkins Dermot Anthony Nestor, Cognitive Perspectives on Israelite Identity, reviewed by Frank H. Polak Marco Nobile, Saggi su Ezechiele, reviewed by Donatella Scaiola Horst Seebass, Numeri: Kapitel 22,2-36,13, reviewed by John Engle New Testament and Cognate Studies ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: New Testament and Cognate Studies Cornelis Bennema, Encountering Jesus: Character Studies in the Gospel of John, reviewed by Francis J. Moloney, S.D.B. Steven Fine, Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman World: Toward a New Jewish Archaeology, reviewed by Joshua Schwartz Ernst Käsemann, On Being a Disciple of the Crucified Nazarene: Unpublished Lectures and Sermons, reviewed by Wayne Coppins Andreas J. Köstenberger, A Theology of John’s Gospel and Letters: The Word, the Christ, the Son of God, reviewed by Craig R. Koester Luis Sanchez Navarro, ed., Pablo y Cristo.: La centralidad de Cristo en el Pensamiento de san Pablo, reviewed by Rodrigo Morales Mark Allan Powell, Introducing the New Testament: A Historical, Literary, and Theological Survey, reviewed by Peter J. Judge Carl N. Toney, Paul’s Inclusive Ethic: Resolving Community Conflicts and Promoting Mission in Romans 14–15, reviewed by James R. Harrison Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: New Testament and Cognate Studies Matthew E. Carlton, Translator’s Reference Translation of the Gospel of Luke, reviewed by Sylvie Raquel Werner H. Kelber and Samuel Byrskog, eds., Jesus in Memory: Traditions in Oral and Scribal Perspectives, reviewed by Stephan Witetschek Adrian Long, Paul and Human Rights: A Dialogue with the Father of the Corinthian Community, reviewed by Ronald R. Clark Mark Allan Powell, ed., Methods for Matthew, reviewed by InHee Cho Gerd Theißen, Erleben und Verhalten der ersten Christen: Eine Psychologie des Urchristentums, reviewed by Wayne Coppins Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Qumran and Cognate Studies John J. Collins, Beyond the Qumran Community: The Sectarian Movement of the Dead Sea Scrolls, reviewed by Philip R. Davies Jason Kalman and Jaqueline S. du Toit, Canada’s Big Biblical Bargain: How McGill University Bought the Dead Sea Scrolls, reviewed by Matthew A. Collins Daniel A. Machiela, The Dead Sea Genesis Apocryphon: A New Text and Translation with Introduction and Special Treatment of Columns 13–17, reviewed by Benjamin Ziemer Lawrence H. Schiffman, Qumran and Jerusalem: Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the History of Judaism, reviewed by Sidnie White Crawford Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies Kevin R. Brine, Elena Ciletti, and Henrike Lähnemann, eds., The Sword of Judith: Judith Studies across the Disciplines, reviewed by Lawrence M. Wills Matthijs J. de Jong, Isaiah among the Ancient Near Eastern Prophets: A Comparative Study of the Earliest Stages of the Isaiah Tradition and the Neo-Assyrian Prophecies, reviewed by Hallvard Hagelia New Testament and Cognate Studies ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Fields Elie Assis, Flashes of Fire: A Literary Analysis of the Song of Songs, reviewed by Francis Landy Chris Franke and Julia M. O’Brien, eds., Aesthetics of Violence in the Prophets, reviewed by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer A. R. George, Babylonian Literary Texts in the Schoyen Collection, reviewed by Alan Lenzi Harry A. Hoffner Jr., Letters from the Hittite Kingdom, reviewed by Ludek Vacín Reinhard G. Kratz and Hermann Spieckermann, eds., Divine Wrath and Divine Mercy in the World of Antiquity, reviewed by Michael S. Moore J. Gordon McConville and Stephen Williams, Joshua, reviewed by Ernst Axel Knauf Eckart Otto, Die Tora: Studien zum Pentateuch: Gesammelte Schriften, reviewed by Reinhard Achenbach Thomas Römer, Jean-Daniel Macchi, and Christophe Nihan, eds., Introduction à l’Ancien Testament, reviewed by John Engle Eugene Ulrich, ed., The Biblical Qumran Scrolls: Transcriptions and Textual Variants, reviewed by Aaron D. Rubin Hermeneutics ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Fields Luísa Maria Varela Almendra, Um debate sobre o conhecimento de Deus: Composição e interpretação de Jb 32–37, reviewed by Gilbert Lozano G. P. F. Broekman, R. J. Demaree, and O. E. Kaper, eds., The Libyan Period in Egypt: Historical and Cultural Studies into the 21st–24th Dynasties: Proceedings of a Conference at Leiden University, 25–27 October 2007, reviewed by Aren M. Maeir Ruth A. Clements and Daniel R. Schwartz, eds., Text, Thought, and Practice in Qumran and Early Christianity: Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, Jointly Sponsored by the Hebrew University Center for the Study of Christianity, 11–13 January, 2004, reviewed by John Kampen Thomas B. Dozeman, Exodus, reviewed by Frank H. Polak Magnar Kartveit, The Origin of the Samaritans, reviewed by Thomas Hieke Ernst Axel Knauf, Josua: Zürcher Bibelkommentare AT(Band 6), reviewed by Marvin A. Sweeney Wolfgang Oswald, Staatstheorie im Alten Israel: Der politische Diskurs im Pentateuch und in den Geschichtsbüchern des Alten Testaments, reviewed by Klaus-Peter Adam Nicholas Postgate, The Land of Assur and the Yoke of Assur: Studies on Assyria 1971–2005, reviewed by Carly Crouch Andrzej S. Turkanik, Of Kings and Reigns: A Study of Translation Technique in the Gamma/Gamma Section of 3 Reigns (1 Kings), reviewed by Johann Cook Biblical Theology and Cognate Fields ...

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: New Testament and Cognate Fields Craig L. Blomberg, The Historical Reliability of the Gospels, reviewed by Robert H. Gundry Craig S. Keener, The Historical Jesus of the Gospels, reviewed by Craig L. Blomberg Lloyd Kim, Polemic in the Book of Hebrews: Anti-Judaism, Anti-Semitism, Supersessionism?, reviewed by Lars Kierspel Maarten J. J. Menken and Steve Moyise, eds., The Minor Prophets in the New Testament, reviewed by Matthew Mitchell Romano Penna, Paolo e la Chiesa di Roma, reviewed by Sean Martin Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Fields ...