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Numbers 5:11–31 is a difficult passage for many faithful interpreters. The trial by ordeal stipulated in the text seems strange to many modern readers. Hanna Lis does not resolve the issues but her treatment here is interesting both in her survey of rabbinic interpretations and in her suggestion of the purpose of the practice.
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.
Shay Bar and Adam Zertal, The Manasseh Hill Country Survey Volume 6: The Eastern Samaria Shoulder, from Nahal Tirzah (Wadi Far'ah) to Ma’ale Ephraim Junction (Brill)
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HT: Todd Bolen
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.
Johann Cook, Wolfgang Kraus, and Martin Rösel, eds., Septuagint Theology and Its Reception: Stellenbosch Congress on the Septuagint, 2022 (SBL Press)
Rodrigo de Sousa
Juliane Eckstein, Peter Juhás, Róbert Lapko, and Reinhard Müller, eds., Challenges for Ancient and Modern Bible Translators (Gorgias)
Łukasz Popko
Deirdre N. Fulton, Kenneth A. Ristau, Jonathan S. Greer, and Margaret E. Cohen, eds., The Formation of Biblical Texts: Chronicling the Legacy of Gary N. Knoppers (Mohr Siebeck)
Francisco Martins
Jo Henderson-Merrygold, Introducing a Hermeneutics of Cispicion: Reading Sarah and Esau’s Gender (Failures) Beyond Cisnormativity (T&T Clark)
Anne Létourneau
Scott McLaren, ed., The Bible in the Age of Empire: A Cultural History (T&T Clark)
Robert Wafawanaka
Douglas J. Moo, The Letters to the Colossians and to Philemon (Eerdmans)
Roy R. Jeal
Clemens Schneider, Die Wüste, das Meer und die Verwandlung Zions: Eine kritische Kontextualisierung des neuen Exodus in Jesaja 40–52 (Evangelische Verlagsanstalt)
Anja Klein
Terje Stordalen and Øystein S. LaBianca, eds., Levantine Entanglements: Cultural Productions, Long-Term Changes and Globalizations in the Eastern Mediterranean (Equinox)
Piotr Bienkowski
Ambra Suriano, Narrative Paths Through Mamre and Sodom: The Oak and the Gate (T&T Clark)
Fabrizio Ficco
Samson L. Uytanlet and Bennet Lawrence, eds., Exploring the New Testament in Asia: Evangelical Perspectives (Langham Global Library)
Melissa C. M. Tan
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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.
Seth Bledsoe, The Wisdom of the Aramaic Book of Ahiqar: Unravelling a Discourse of Uncertainty and Distress (Brill)
