Latest Issue of Review of Biblical Literature

  
The latest issue of Review of Biblical Literature is out. Reviews can be accessed by clicking the links below.

Jan N. Bremmer
The Rise of Christianity through the Eyes of Gibbon, Harnack, and Rodney Stark
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Reviewed by Brent Nongbri

Giovanni Garbini
Letteratura e politica nell'Israele antico
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7621
Reviewed by Dempsey Rosales Acosta

Randall Heskett and Brian P. Irwin, eds.
The Bible as a Human Witness to Divine Revelation: Hearing the Word of God through Historically Dissimilar Traditions
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Reviewed by S. D. Giere

Benno Jacob; ed. Ernest Jacob and Walter Jacob
The First Book of the Bible: Genesis (Augmented Edition)
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Reviewed by Joel S. Baden

Dale Launderville
Celibacy in the Ancient World: Its Ideal and Practice in Pre-Hellenistic Israel, Mesopotami, and Greece
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Reviewed by Pancratius C. Beentjes

Erle Leichty
The Royal Inscriptions of Esarhaddon, King of Assyria (680-669 BC)
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Reviewed by Paul Sanders

Frank J. Matera
Romans
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Reviewed by Pablo T. Gadenz

Lauren A. S. Monroe
Josiah's Reform and the Dynamics of Defilement: Israelite Rites of Violence and the Making of a Biblical Text
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Reviewed by Ovidiu Creanga

Rob Starner
Kingdom of Power, Power of Kingdom: The Opposing World Views of Mark and Chariton
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Reviewed by Tom Nelligan

Stephen O. Stout
The "Man Christ Jesus": The Humanity of Jesus in the Teaching of the Apostle Paul
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8238
Reviewed by Tony Costa