Open Access Monographs from SBL Press

SBL Press publishes two open access book series: Ancient Near East Monographs (ANEM) and International Voices in Biblical Studies (IVBS). You can access them using the links below

International Voices in Biblical Studies here.
Ancient Near East Monographs here

The Dietary Laws in Leviticus 11

Christine Palmer has a good discussion 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.

Scott Brazil, Jesus and YHWH-Texts in the Synoptic Gospels (T&T Clark)
Marc Rastoin

Timothy A. Brookins, First and Second Thessalonians (Baker Academic)
Nina Nikki

Warren Carter, The Massacre of the Innocents: Studies in the Cultural Afterlife of a Gospel Scene (Lexington/Fortress Academic)
Brandon W. Hawk

Alessandro G. K. Casagrande, Das Amosbuch als epische Erzählung im dramatischen Modus: Ein Beitrag zu den synchronen Lesarten der Prophetenbücher (Mohr Siebeck)
Bob Becking

Sébastien Doane, Reading the Bible amid the Environmental Crisis: Interdisciplinary Insights to Ecological Hermeneutics (Lexington/Fortress Academic)
Dong Hyeon Jeong

James R. Harrison and L. L. Welborn, eds., The First Urban Churches 7: Thessalonica (SBL Press)
Jamie Davies

Nathan Leach, Daniel Charles Smith, and Tony Keddie, eds., Revelation and Material Religion in the Roman East: Essays in Honor of Steven J. Friesen (Routledge)
Harry O. Maier

Hanneke Loon and Pierre van Hecke, eds., Where Is the Way to the Dwelling of Light? Studies in Genesis, Job and Linguistics in Honor of Ellen van Wolde (Brill)
Tobias Häner

Saul M. Olyan, Human, Divine, and Textual Relationships: Essays on the Hebrew Bible (Brill)
Barbara Thiede

Markus Vinzent, Christ’s Torah: The Making of the New Testament in the Second Century (Routledge)
Judith M. Lieu

Another Free Logos Book: Introducing Ephesians

Logos is offering another free book for January: Introducing Ephesians by Simon Austen. I did not see an expiration date but it is probably the end of the month. You can access the offer here.

Free eBook: The First Christian Letters: Reading First and Second Thessalonians

Wipf and Stock is offering a free eBook copy of The First Christian Letters: Reading First and Second Thessalonians by Rafael Rodriguez. Act quickly because the deal ends on 1/31. Here are the instructions to get your copy.

1. Click on this link.
2. Click "ADD TO CART" on the eBook option.
3. Use the code "RODRIGUEZ26"
4. Upon checkout completion, you will receive a confirmation email with instructions of how to download your free eBook.

Slavery in Egypt

Mark Janzen has a good article on slavery in Egypt 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.

Phillip A Davis Jr., Matthew Ryan Robinson, and Daniel Lanzinger, eds., What Does Theology Do, Actually? Volume 2: Exegeting Exegesis (Evangelische Verlagsanstalt)
Bryan Beeckman

James D. Dvorak, The Interpersonal Metafunction in 1 Corinthians 1–4: The Tenor of Toughness (Brill)
Ron Clark

Brahim El Guabli and Mostafa Hussein, eds., Remembering Jews in Maghrebi and Middle Eastern Media (Penn State University Press)
Filippo Petrucci

Angela Kim Harkins, Experiencing Presence in the Second Temple Period: Revised and Updated Essays (Peeters)
Maria Brutti

Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr, Paulus im Judentum seiner Zeit: Gesammelte Studien (Mohr Siebeck)
Jan Dochhorn

M. John-Patrick O’Connor, The Last Will Be First: Divine Judgment in the Gospel of Mark (Baylor University Press)
Devlin McGuire

Saul M. Olyan, Animal Rights and the Hebrew Bible (Oxford University Press)
Yael Shemesh

David L. Petersen, Genesis: A Commentary (Westminster John Knox)
Andrew E. Steinmann

Stanley E. Porter, Interpretation for Preaching and Teaching: An Introduction to Biblical Hermeneutics (Baker Academic)
Peter C. W. Ho

Christina G. Williamson, Urban Rituals in Sacred Landscapes in Hellenistic Asia Minor (Brill)
Joshua Schwartz

Ben Witherington's Top Five NT Books from the Last 25 Years

You can read his annotated list here. it is a pretty a good list.

Steve Walton on Church Planting in Acts

Steve Walton has made his presentation on Church Planting in Acts 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.

James W. Barker, Writing and Rewriting the Gospels: John and the Synoptics (Eerdmans)
Grayson Thompson

Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley, 1800 Years of Encounters With Mandaeans (Gorgias)
James F. McGrath

David M. Carr, From Sources to Scrolls and Beyond: Essays on the Study of the Pentateuch (Mohr Siebeck)
A. Rahel Wells

Nils Alstrup Dahl, The Apostle Paul Guides the Early Church (Cascade)
James P. Sweeney

Erasmus Gass, Asyl, Leviten und ein Altar: Eine literarhistorische Analyse von Josua 20–22 (Mohr Siebeck)
Thomas B. Dozeman

Thomas L. Gertzen, Aber die Zeit fürchtet die Pyramiden: Die Wissenschaften vom Alten Orient und die zeitliche Dimension von Kulturgeschichte (De Gruyter)
Nikola Wenner

John Goldingay, Proverbs (Eerdmans)
Steven Tuell

Brandon Massey, The Birth and Death of the PreMarkan Passion Narrative: A History of Form Criticism’s Most Assured Result (Mohr Siebeck)
Santiago Guijarro

Emmanuel L. Rehfeld, ed., Sündlos solidarisch: Der Sohn Gottes als Repräsentant der Menschheit nach der Darstellung des Markusevangeliums (Evangelische Verlagsanstalt)
Judith König

Jeffrey L. Rubenstein, ed., Studies in Rabbinic Narratives, Volume 2 (Brown Judaic Studies)
Richard Kalmin