Latest Issue of The Review of Biblical Literature

The latest issue of the Review of Biblical Literature is out. Reviews that may be of interest to those interested in Bible exposition include:

Loveday C. A. Alexander
Acts in Its Ancient Literary Context: A Classicist Looks at the Acts of the Apostles
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5963
Reviewed by Chrys C. Caragounis

Markus Bockmuehl and James Carleton Paget, eds.
Redemption and Resistance: The Messianic Hopes of Jews and Christians in Antiquity
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6001
Reviewed by Joshua Ezra Burns

Frances Taylor Gench
Encounters with Jesus: Studies in the Gospel of John
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6069
Reviewed by John Painter

L. Ann. Jervis
At the Heart of the Gospel: Suffering in the Earliest Christian Message
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6138
Reviewed by Thomas W. Gillespie

Robert Kysar
John: The Maverick Gospel
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5982
Reviewed by Dirk G. van der Merwe

Terence C. Mournet
Oral Tradition and Literary Dependency: Variability and Stability in the Synoptic Tradition and Q
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6021
Reviewed by Robert K. McIver

Geert van Oyen and Tom Shepherd, eds.
The Trial and Death of Jesus: Essays on the Passion Narrative in Mark
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6062
Reviewed by Adam D. Winn

Gershom M. H. Ratheiser
Mitzvoth Ethics and the Jewish Bible: The End of Old Testament Theology
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5882
Reviewed by Walter Brueggemann

Gerald O. West, ed.
Reading Other-Wise: Socially Engaged Biblical Scholars Reading with Their Local Communities
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6042
Reviewed by Erhard S. Gerstenberger
Reviewed by Gosnell Yorke