Introduction to Deuteronomy

Claude Mariottini introduces his readers to Deuteronomy here.

Free eBook: Strange Worship

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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.

Lincoln H. Blumell, Lady Eclecte: The Lost Woman of the New Testament (Fortress)
Susan E. Hylen

Ryan D. Collman, The Apostle to the Foreskin: Circumcision in the Letters of Paul (De Gruyter)
Rafael Rodríguez

Lorenzo DiTommaso and Matthew Goff, eds., Reimagining Apocalypticism: Apocalyptic Literature in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Writings (SBL Press)
Patrick J. Angiolillo

Daniel M. Gurtner and Brian J. Tabb, eds., Engaging the First Christian Historian: Essays on Luke-Acts (T&T Clark)
Alexander P. Thompson

Kei Hiramatsu, The Structure of Second Corinthians: Paul’s Theology of Ministry (T&T Clark)
Lisa M. Bowens

Gabriel Fischer Hornung, Esther against Joseph’s Backdrop: The Theology and History of an Intertextual Relationship (De Gruyter)
Joshua Turpin

Alexander T. Kirk, Agur’s Wisdom and the Coherence of Proverbs 30 (SBL Press)
Steven S. Tuell

Mark A. Noll, America’s Book: The Rise and Decline of a Bible Civilization, 1794–1911 (Oxford University Press)
Greg Carey

Ryan D. Schroeder, Let Us Go to the Seer! Prophecy, Scribal Culture, and the Invention of Hebrew Scripture (De Gruyter)
Karel van der Toorn

Jeremy C. Thompson and Clare K. Rothschild, The Benedictine Prologue: A Contribution to the Early History of the Latin Prologues to the Pauline Epistles (Mohr Siebeck)
Alfio Giuseppe Catalano

Free Logos Resources for August

Logos is offering these freebies this month: A Cultural Handbook to the Bible by John Pilch, The Church’s Mission in a Polarized World by Aaron Wessman. You can get these free resources and also other deals here and here. If you are a subscriber, you can also get The Old Testament in the New by Steve Moyise 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 Evan Anderson and Matthew Ryan Hauge, eds., Character Studies in the Gospel of Matthew (T&T Clark)

Philip Thomas Mohr

Nicole M. Bauer and J. Andrew Doole, eds., Ideas of Possession: Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Perspectives (Oxford University Press)
Brandon R. Grafius

Juan Alberto Casas Ramírez, Magdalena Díaz Araujo, César Carbullanca Nuñez, and Gabriele Boccaccini, eds., Estudios Iberoamericanos en torno al Judaísmo del Segundo Templo (SBL Press)
Andy R. Espinoza

Tom de Bruin, Fan Fiction and Early Christian Writings: Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha and Canon (T&T Clark)
Acacia Chan

Susan E. Hylen, Gender Mobility: Seven Ideas about Gender in the New Testament Period (Oxford University Press)
Jimmy Hoke

Dominic S. Irudayaraj, Gina Hens-Piazza, and Benedetta Rossi, eds., Unity in the Book of Isaiah (T&T Clark)
Paul K.-K. Cho

Priscille Marschall, Colometric Analysis of Paul’s Letters: Methodological Foundations and Application to 2 Corinthians 10–13 (Mohr Siebeck)
Jonathan Hunter

Ivan Miroshnikov, ed., Parabiblica Coptica (Mohr Siebeck)
C. L. Buckner

Angukali Rotokha, Post-mortem Divine Retribution: A Study in the Hebrew Bible and Select Second Temple Jewish Literature Compared with Aspects of Divine Retribution in Deuteronomy (Langham Academic)
Christine R. Trotter

Pekka Särkiö, Hidden Critique of Solomon in the Hebrew Bible (SBL Press)
Jacob Deans

The Term ‘elep (אלף)

Christopher Eames has a good aricle here on the meaning of the challenging Hebrew term ‘elep (אלף) and how that might relate to certain biblical texts.

Magic in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible

You can download a free copy of Magic in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible by Ilan Peled here. Use the "Save PDF option." Note the offer is only good until August 7.

HT: Christopher Hays

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Lamentations

The Jerusalem Post contains a report/review here of  Lamentations: Faith in a Turbulent World by Yael Ziegler. It is an interesting overview of this neglected book.

The Composition of Ancient Books

Monika Amsler has an interesting article here on the production of ancient books.

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.

Matthew J. Albanese, Translation Technique and Literary Structures in Greek Isaiah 13:1–14:23 (SBL Press)
Myrto Theocharous

Shlomit Bechar, Political Change and Material Culture in Middle to Late Bronze Age Canaan (Eisenbrauns)
Jill Citron Katz

.Sidnie White Crawford and Tommy Wasserman, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Textual Criticism of the Bible (Oxford University Press)
Leonardo Pessoa da Silva Pinto

Kevin Fisher, Monumentality, Place-Making and Social Interaction on Late Bronze Age Cyprus (Equinox)
Ekin Kozal

Brian T. German, Haggai and Malachi (Concordia)
W. Dennis Tucker Jr.

Bart J. Koet, Edwina Murphy, and Esko Ryökäs, eds., Deacons and Diakonia in Late Antiquity: The Third Century Onwards (Mohr Siebeck)
Ritva Williams

Hugo Méndez, The Gospel of John: A New History (Oxford University Press)
Paul N. Anderson

Lena Michelle Nogossek-Raithel, Dis/ability in Mark: Representations of Body and Healing in the Gospel Narrative (De Gruyter)
Dong Hyeon Jeong

David T. Runia, ed., Philo of Alexandria: An Annotated Bibliography 2007–2016 (Brill)
Sean A. Adams

Wendy I. Zierler, Going Out with Knots: My Two Kaddish Years with Hebrew Poetry (Jewish Publication Society)
Ellen F. Davis

Exacavating Colossae

Bible History Daily interviews excavation director for Colossae, Barış Yener here.

Participation in the Lord's Supper

Davy Ellison discusses four views here.

The Anonymity of the Gospels

Michael Kok posts here about the theological value of anonymous Gospels, namely the focus is on the content and not the authors or editors. It seems to me that the Gospels express little interest in the issue of authorship. Even in places where you might expect it, such as Luke's prologue (Luke 1:1–4).

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.

Vince L. Bantu, Those for Whom the Lamp Shines: The Making of Egyptian Ethnic Identity in Late Antiquity (University of California Press)
Miloš David

Beth A. Berkowitz, What Animals Teach Us about Families: Kinship and Species in the Bible and Rabbinic Literature (University of California Press)
Suzanna Millar

Erich S. Gruen, Scriptural Tales Retold: The Inventiveness of Second Temple Jews (T&T Clark)
Francis Borchardt

Charlotte Hempel, The Community Rules from Qumran: A Commentary (Fortress)
Melissa Sayyad Bach

Harry A. Hoffner Jr. and H. Craig Melchert, A Grammar of the Hittite Language: Reference Grammar, Tutorial (Eisenbrauns)
Marianna Pozza

Jaeyoung Jeon, JiSeong Kwon, and Daewook Kim, eds., King, State, Empire in the Hebrew Bible: Postcolonial Perspectives and Contemporary Relevance in Korea (De Gruyter)
Hyun Woo Kim

Clair Mesick, Paul and His Rivals: Apostleship and Antagonism in the Corinthian Correspondence (De Gruyter)
Joshua W. Jipp

Jens Schröter and Konrad Schwarz, eds., Early Christianity in Rome: Literary, Historical, and Archaeological Traditions (De Gruyter)
Andrew King

Carolyn J. Sharp, Micah: Introduction and Commentary (Eerdmans)
Dominic S. Irudayaraj

Todd D. Still and Jason A. Myers, eds., Rhetoric, History, and Theology: Interpreting the New Testament (Lexington/Fortress Academic)
Vernon K. Robbins

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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.

Taylor O. Gray, Ethan R. Johnson, and Martina Vercesi, eds., Belief and Unbelief in the Ancient World (Eerdmans)
John Henry

Marc Grønbech-Dam, Jesus as the Son of 1–2 Samuel’s David: An Intertextual Reading of the Gospel of Matthew (Brill)
Piotr Herok

Pieter Hartog and Andrew Perrin, eds., The Dead Sea Scrolls in the Context of Hellenistic Judea: Proceedings of the Tenth Meeting of the International Organization for Qumran Studies (Aberdeen, 5–8 August, 2019) (Brill)
Michael DeVries

Rhyne King, The House of the Satrap: The Making of the Ancient Persian Empire (University of California Press)
Sam Blankenship

Claude Lichert, Le prophète s’avance masqué: Commentaire et traversée biblique du livre de Jonas (Peeters)
Bob Becking

Michael Meyer-Blanck, Glaube und Hass: Antisemitismus im Christentum (Mohr Siebeck)
Benedikt J. Collinet

Thomas A. Robinson, Revisiting the God-Fearer Thesis in the Development of Early Christianity (T&T Clark)
Christoph Stenschke

Shaily Shashikant Patel, Smoke and Mirrors: Discourses of Magic in Early Petrine Traditions (Oxford University Press) and Magic and Heresy in Ancient Christian Literature (Cambridge University Press)
Laura Nasrallah

Michael B. Shepherd, How Did They Read the Prophets? Early Jewish and Christian Interpretations (Eerdmans)
Antti Laato

Michael E. Stone, Armenian Apocrypha: The Short Questionnaire from Adam to Moses (SBL Press)
Florentina Badalanova Geller