Naomi in the Book of Ruth

Claude Mariottini has a nice discussion here on Naomi in the book of Ruth. Although the book is named for Ruth, I have long suggested that the main character is Naomi.

The Latest Issue of the Review of Biblical Literature

The latest issue of Review of Biblical Literature is out. Reviews can be accessed by clicking the links below but unfortunately you must be a SBL member to read them.

František Ábel, ed., Receptions of Paul during the First Two Centuries: Exploration of the Jewish Matrix of Early Christianity (Lexington/Fortress Academic)
Ryan D. Collman

Ruth A. Clements, Russell Fuller, Armin Lange, and Paul D. Mandel, eds., The Textual History of the Bible from the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Biblical Manuscripts of the Vienna Papyrus Collection: Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, Cosponsored by the University of Vienna Institute for Jewish Studies and the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies (Brill)
Joshua Schwartz

Paul S. Evans, Sennacherib and the War of 1812: Disputed Victory in the Assyrian Campaign of 701 BCE in Light of Military History (T&T Clark)
Shawn Zelig Aster

Bungishabaku Katho, Reading Jeremiah in Africa: Biblical Essays in Sociopolitical Imagination (HippoBooks)
Ron Lindo Jr.

Oded Lipschits, Liora Freud, Manfred Oeming, and Yuval Gadot, Ramat Raḥel VI: Renewed Excavations by the Tel Aviv–Heidelberg Expedition (2005–2010); The Babylonian-Persian Pit (Eisenbrauns)
Charles E. Carter

Ruth Christa Mathieson, Matthew’s Parable of the Royal Wedding Feast: A Sociorhetorical Interpretation (SBL Press)
Daniel Frayer-Griggs

Jeremiah L. Stallman, Judge Jesus: Approaching Jesus’s Messianic Judgeship in the Gospel of John from an Early Jewish Perspective (Wipf & Stock)
Samantha J. Scott

Ariel Zinder, Arise and Sing: Readings in Medieval Hebrew Penitential Poetry from Iraq and al-Andalus [Hebrew] (Magnes)
Oren Yirmiya

Israel National Archaeological Database

The Israel Antiquities Authority has launched the Israel National Archaeological Database. I have only been able to dabble but this looks like an incredible resource for those interested in biblical archaeology. You can access it here.

Luke 15

Whereas the Parable of the Prodigal Son often gets the lion's share of attention in Luke 15, Ian Paul has a good discussion of the two parables that proceed it. You can check out Ian's post here.

The Latest Issue of the Review of Biblical Literature

The latest issue of Review of Biblical Literature is out. Reviews can be accessed by clicking the links below but unfortunately you must be a SBL member to read them.

Andrew T. Abernethy, Discovering Isaiah: Content, Interpretation, Reception (Eerdmans)
Shawn Zelig Aster

Shaye J. D. Cohen, Robert Goldenberg, and Hayim Lapin, eds., The Oxford Annotated Mishnah (Oxford University Press)
Joshua Schwartz

Nijay K. Gupta and John K. Goodrich, eds., Sin and Its Remedy in Paul (Clarke)
Stuart B. Langley

Pieter B. Hartog, Shulamit Laderman, Vered Tohar, and Archibald L. H. M. van Wieringen, eds., Jerusalem and Other Holy Places as Foci of Multireligious and Ideological Confrontation (Brill)
Rivka Ulmer

Murray J. Harris, Paul—His Life, Letters, and Teaching: Convenient Summaries (Cascade)
Carl N. Toney

Yii-Jan Lin, Immigration and Apocalypse: How the Book of Revelation Shaped American Immigration (Yale University Press)
Lynn R. Huber

Enoch O. Okode, Christ the Gift and the Giver: Paul’s Portrait of Jesus as the Supreme Royal Benefactor in Romans 5:1–11 (Pickwick)
Grace Wing-yi AU

Joseph Yahalom, Yehudah Halevi: The Secular Poems; The Original Diwan with Supplements [Hebrew] (Magnes)
Federico Dal Bo

Free eBook: Circles and the Cross

 Wipf and Stock is offering a free eBook copy of Circles and the Cross: Cosmos, Consciousness, Christ, and the Human Place in Creation Context of Palestine/Israel edited by Loren Wilkinson. Act quickly because the deal ends on 8/30. Here are the instructions to get your copy.

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Iron in Ancient Israel

Naama Yahalom-Mack has an interesting article here on the history of iron in Israel.

Resource: Audio-Visual Reading of Acts 27

Bible Mapper is a helpful Bible geography resource with over 200 free maps created by David Barrett. Barrett has now added a video that includes a reading of Acts 27 and Paul's voyage to Rome while the geographical references in the text are simultaneously highlighted on a map. Check it out here.

HT: Todd Bolen

Free Logos Resources for September

Logos is offering these freebies this month: A Passion for Faithfulness: Wisdom from the Book of Nehemiah by J. I. Packer, Follow Me: A History of Christian Intentionality by Ivan Kauffman, a free ebook, Marriage Forecasting by Tim Muehlhoff, and the free audio book Raising Disciples by Teresa Roberts. You can get these free resources and also other deals here, here, here, and here. If you are a subscriber, you can also get 1 Samuel: Choose Your King by Tim Chester for free here.

The Latest Issue of the Review of Biblical Literature

The latest issue of Review of Biblical Literature is out. Reviews can be accessed by clicking the links below but unfortunately you must be a SBL member to read them.

Craig G. Bartholomew, Listening to Scripture: An Introduction to Interpreting the Bible (Baker Academic)
Zach Eberhart

Angelika Berlejung and Gideon Bohak, eds., Amulets of Protection and Texts for Fears in Antiquity (Mohr Siebeck)
Ariel Feldman

Kathleen J. Birney, Ashkelon 9: The Hellenistic Period (Eisenbrauns)
Joshua Schwartz

Aron Freidenreich, Mutual Influence in Priestly and Non-Priestly Pentateuchal Narratives: A Study of the Dynamic Interaction Behind the Textual Growth of P and Non-P (Mohr Siebeck)
Gershon Brin

Matthew E. Gordley, Social Justice in the Stories of Jesus: The Ethical Challenge of the Parables (Wiley Blackwell)
Warren Carter

Roy R. Jeal, Exploring Colossians: Living the New Reality (SBL Press)
Timothy Milinovich

Benjamin Kantor, The Pronunciation of New Testament Greek: Judeo-Palestinian Greek Phonology and Orthography from Alexander to Islam (Eerdmans)
Jenny Read-Heimerdinger

Sydney Tooth, Suddenness and Signs: The Eschatologies of 1 and 2 Thessalonians (Mohr Siebeck)
Janusz Kucicki

Themelios 50:2

You can access the latest issue of Themelios for free in three different formats here.

HT: Antony Billington

Psalm 2

Steve Walton has made his slides from a recent sermon on Psalm 2 available here.

The Latest Issue of the Review of Biblical Literature

The latest issue of Review of Biblical Literature is out. Reviews can be accessed by clicking the links below but unfortunately you must be a SBL member to read them.

Brendan Byrne, Paul and the Economy of Salvation: Reading from the Perspective of the Last Judgment (Baker Academic)
Grant Buchanan

Steven Fassberg, ed., Hebrew Texts and Language of the Second Temple Period: Proceedings of an Eighth Symposium on the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ben Sira (Brill)
John Screnock

Martin Goodman, Herod the Great: Jewish King in a Roman World (Yale University Press)
Jodi Magness

David W. Kling, The Bible in History: How the Texts Have Shaped the Times (Oxford University Press)
An-Ting Yi

Reinhard G. Kratz and Bernd U. Schipper, eds., Elephantine in Context: Studies on the History, Religion and Literature of the Judeans in Persian Period Egypt (Mohr Siebeck)
Alejandro F. Botta

Albert Sui Hung Lee, Dialogue on Monarchy in the Gideon-Abimelech Narrative: Ideological Reading in Light of Bakhtin’s Dialogism (Brill)
Keith Bodner

Susanne Scholz, ed., Doing Biblical Masculinity Studies as Feminist Biblical Studies? Critical Interrogations (Sheffield Phoenix)
Alexiana Fry

Benjamin D. Suchard, Aramaic Daniel: A Textual Reconstruction of Chapters 1–7 (Brill)
Peter Joshua Atkins