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.

Seth Bledsoe, The Wisdom of the Aramaic Book of Ahiqar: Unravelling a Discourse of Uncertainty and Distress (Brill)
Bryan D. Estelle

Renate Marian van Dijk-Coombes, The Standards of Mesopotamia in the Third and Fourth Millennia BCE: An Iconographic Study (Mohr Siebeck)
Noemi Borrelli

Harvey D. Egan, SJ, Paul: Christianity’s Premier Apostolic Mystic (Cascade)
Gudrun Nassauer

Manfred Hutter, Religionsgeschichte Anatoliens: Vom Ende des dritten bis zum Beginn des ersten Jahrtausends (Kohlhammer)
Andrea Trameri

Sara Kipfer, Extreme Klimaereignisse und Hungerkatastrophen in den Prophetenbüchern (Brill)
Bob Becking

Nathan Mastnjak, Before the Scrolls: A Material Approach to Israel’s Prophetic Library (Oxford University Press)
Andrew B. Perrin

Carol A. Newsom, The Spirit within Me: Self and Agency in Ancient Israel and Second Temple Judaism (Yale University Press)
Michael B. Johnson

Jenny Read-Heimerdinger and Josep Rius-Camps, Luke’s Demonstration to Theophilus: The Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles according to Codex Bezae (T&T Clark)
Paolo Costa

Norman Roth, The Bible and Jews in Medieval Spain (Routledge)
Joshua Schwartz

Carolyn Roberts Thompson, Reading German for Theological Studies: A Grammar and Reader (Baker Academic)
David J. Fuller

Psalm 143

I am working on a commentary on the Psalms. I have decided to compile some helpful links that I discovered during my research. It includes a mix of exegetical and sermonic links. Here is what I have for Psalm 143 (in no particular order). Feel free to mention any that you find helpful in the comments section.

Analysis by C. J. Labuschagne: https://www.labuschagne.nl/ps143.pdf

William Barrick’s notes: https://drbarrick.org/files/studynotes/Psalms/Ps_143.pdf

John Piper, How to Argue with God: https://www.desiringgod.org/messages/how-to-argue-with-god

Jim Hamilton, sermon video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrwr76QGFDY

Epistolary Humor

HT: Gary Urie

John 10

Ian Paul has a good discussion of John 10 here. 

Spurgeon's Preaching

For a variety of reasons, I have a great interest in, and appreciation of, the preaching of Charles Spurgeon. So I found Trevin Wax's summary of an eyewitness account of Spurgeon preaching to be both fascinating and encouraging. You can read it here.

Did the Author of Hebrews Really Not Know Where He Was Quoting From? (Hebrews 2:6 and 4:4)

Ken Berding does a nice job here addressing what the author of Hebrews meant in 2:6 and 4:4.

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.

Soham Al-Suadi and Peter-Ben Smit, eds., T&T Clark Handbook to Early Christian Meals in the Greco-Roman World (T&T Clark)
Jin Hwan Lee

Jennifer Miyuki Babcock, Ancient Egyptian Animal Fables: Tree Climbing Hippos and Ennobled Mice (Brill)
Angela McDonald

Kristine Henriksen Garroway, Hyun Chul Paul Kim, and John W. Martens, eds., Violence against Women and Children in the Hebrew Bible: Between Trauma and Resilience (T&T Clark)
Yael Nu’emah-Kremer

Thomas Kazen, Dirt, Shame, Status: Perspectives on Same-Sex Sexuality in the Bible and the Ancient World (Eerdmans)
Klaus-Peter Adam

David Lincicum, The Commentarial Impulse: Interpretation and Actualization in the Pauline Tradition (Eerdmans)
A. Andrew Das

Daniel Olariu, Theodotion’s Greek Text of Daniel: An Analysis of the Revisional Process and Its Semitic Source (Brill)
Martijn Beukenhorst

Hyun Ho Park, Intergroup Conflict, Recategorization, and Identity Construction in Acts: Breaking the Cycle of Slander, Labeling and Violence (T&T Clark)
Shelly Matthews

Emma Louise Parker, The Importance of Outsiders to Pauline Communities: Opinion, Reputation and Mission (T&T Clark)
William Horst

Paul R. Raabe, Isaiah 13–27 (Concordia)
Paul D. Wegner

Jonathan Yogev, The Rephaim: Sons of the Gods (Brill)
Alistair T. Robertson